My Ear Hates Your Phone

I love the invention of texting. I hate talking on the phone. I do it simply because there is no other option most times, but the advent of the text message took the wind out of the phone's audio sails. It pretty much did away with over 90% of my phone calls. Before text messages, my ideal phone calls fell in one of two categories:

Phone call #1:
Them: Hello
Me: Hey, how's it goin?
Them: good, how about you?
Me: good, going to _____ in a bit. Wanna go?
Them: sure, meet you there.
Me: cool, see you soon.

Phone call #2:
Them: Hello
Me: Hey, how's it goin?
Them: good, how about you?
Me: good, going to ______ in a bit. Wanna go?
Them: sorry, got plans already.
Me: cool, see you next time.

Both of these conversations can easily be taken care of by text. So 90% of my phone calls are now textual. Being that I hate small talk and phone calls are pretty much all small talk, this was an incredible change.