Thursday, February 10, 2005

We're taking bets that IM can make a story very dramatic...

IM is a great medium to communicate with people. It makes phone calls sometimes unneccesary. It also makes it hard to communicate a dramatic story or a story about someone getting hurt. People just don't know when to include the breaks or they type too slow. Here is an IM conversation I had with my brother tonight to prove my point.

Brother: we park my car and i go with him to walk back to his car......as we are walking to his car on that road, this car comes flying around the corner (on hickory) past us and flies into a fence and a light pole
Brother: hard
Brother: really hard
Brother: it was a low profile like acura prelude.....early 90's
Brother: if this car had air bags it would have gone off
20 second pause
Me: and?
ANOTHER 25 second pause
Brother: we went over to the kid and he was alright......

He is going to say that it was faster than that, but I have a witness and I was making fun of him that he was so slow. Basically IM makes everyone sound like they are Ross Geller on Friends. That's why the best medium for stories is still in person. To all the people waiting for Year 5 part 2 it will be posted Sunday night late. It takes a while to get it right. Sorry.