For a little over a month I've been emailing back and forth with Kurt, whom I met back in ye olde high school days. We exchanged phone numbers and he's called up a couple of times, which is a good thing since I'm not likely to pick up the phone to initiate a call myself.

I used to trace this to the days when I worked on the phones at Blue Shield in Hawaii. After talking all day with doctors and patients, the last thing I felt like doing at home was calling anyone on the phone.

That's probably why I don't talk on the phone much, but I've actually never been very big on dialing folks. Even way back when, I hardly called up anyone other than Ruth or Dianne. Everyone else called me (which is funny considering we had an unlisted number; apparently, I passed that number out like crazy). This was long before cell phones and call waiting, so if I were on the telephone nobody else could call us. Sometimes, the guys would race each other to see who could get me on the phone first and then gloat how the other dude was too slow. Occasionally, my mom would have the operator interrupt to tell me to hang up so she could call home :)

I don't remember talking on the phone to Kurt. I'm sure we did; everyone in our group talked on the phone exhaustively, for hours on end. Then again, since I had been pretending I didn't have a crush on him, there's a good chance that I didn't give him my unlisted phone number just to be contrary. On the other hand, guys that I actively disliked had my phone number and called me all the time.

Talking to Kurt is a trip down memory lane because we knew many of the same folks and he's been telling me where so-and-so is now and stuff. Since I don't call people, I tend to lose track of them. :/ Kurt has a great sense of humor. I commented that connecting with him now reminded me of Peggy Sue Got Married and his next note to me started off "Heya Peggy Sue." He's also frighteningly active, both physically and with his volunteer work. It's like talking to someone I know and don't know at the same time.

We're hoping that sometime we'll both be in the same state at the same time so we can have dinner and chat without thinking about weekend minutes and free long distance. I'm looking forward to it.