hello darkness

There is no way for me NOT to feel stupid when somebody's phone cuts out while I'm talking. Invariably I'm trying to be funny and invariably I take their "silence" as me not being funny, so I redouble my comedic efforts in an attempt to get some sort of reaction from my no-longer-existence listener. Then the dial tone kicks in and I blush at the monumental effort I had just made in attempting to entertain the vast, desolate, humanless expanse of disconnected phonedom.