Do you ever write down words and phrases that you are saying while talking on the telephone?

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I just noticed a small sheet of paper with my name on it and some other gibberish. I wrote that after I gave someone my name. It's a weird habit.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, often. lots of doodling too. the famous "invisible cube" and so forth. i think i picked it from my mother who could produce spirographian acid blotters of ballpoint pen given a long enough phone conversation.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, I totally do this. If you read the piece of paper, you can fill inbetween the lines of the entire conversation.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

telephone mentalists!

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 13 November 2002 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

yes

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

no.
i doodle, and if i write down any words like directions, by the end of the conversation i have usually doodled over them so i cant read them.

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yes, I write things down all the time. It never seems to be the salient points of the conversation that I *should* be recording either!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, all the time and like MarkH it's never anything usefull, just random words.

― Plinky (Plinky), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 09:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Doodling in meetings = a sign of preserving your sanity from collapse.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

all the time, its hard not to with ADD.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

the grebtest drawing i evah did wz a doodle in a meeting (oh no!!)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes. I jot down random stuff. And draw little pictures. For a while in high school I was obsessed with doodling spiral-y trees everywhere. Now I'm more into simple shapes...

I keep drawing a ring over and over.

haha

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I never doodle evah and am a bit worried about what this says about me psychologically-speaking. Feel free to speculate.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

you are very focused?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

bwahahahah. Yes, all us ilx-ers are focused, aren't we?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

whilst the "isolation paradox" is the most commonly quoted reason for video phones not taking off ("I'm not buying one unless you do!", "No, I..." ect ect) and having to get properly dressed when someone calls when you're in the shower is another, this thread has made me think of a third reason, which is as important. At the mo, you can doodle away to your heart's content and the person on t'other end of the blower is none the wiser, whereas with the video phone they'd see you doodling and bellow, "ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME???!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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