Reach Out and Touch Someone

It happened again this week and I had forgotten how good it felt.

I was having one of those days this week. It wasn’t a bad day or a particularly great day. You know, it was just a day. It was about 11:00 a.m. I had finished what I wanted to do that morning and had about two hours before anyone would get home. It was too early for lunch besides the fact that I wasn’t hungry. So, I did what anyone else would do and started to play on my phone.

Then it rang!

Isn’t caller ID great? How did we ever exist before we had it? You see “unknown caller” and that’s it! I’m not going to answer that one!

I love all these places that say, “Your call is important to us.” Well if it’s so important, how come they never leave a message when I let it go to voicemail?

The other day though it wasn’t an unknown caller, it was my friend Scott Reiniche. Right away my mood improved as I hadn’t talked to Scott in awhile. I answered the phone and we talked for almost half an hour.

We hadn’t talked to each other for a few months. I’ve been busy chasing my grandson around Virginia and Scott has been busy keeping Easy 99.1 going with remote studios and all the other COVID craziness.

Sound familiar?

I remembered this morning that I wrote about this recently. Just a couple of weeks ago I had a blog called “Be the reason someone smiles today.”

“How many times have you received a text from someone that makes you smile or at least a little happy that they remembered you? Just think: How much effort is it to send a text? Five or ten seconds could change the day for someone.
If you prefer the old school approach you could call or —-(gasp)—- actually visit! Just call ahead and please wear your mask.”

It was so nice to be on the receiving end. We just got caught up on what was going on with each other and the families.

So true!

My wife, Priscilla, has often joked about how guys just don’t call and catch up with each other and I have noticed it’s true. A woman will call her female friends and talk for almost an hour. Guys? We seem to need to have a reason.

“Bill? Yeah it’s Todd. Hey can I borrow your chainsaw Saturday? Good. I’ll pick it up around 10? Great. Yeah Julie and the kids are fine. You? Good. Ok. See you Saturday.”

Making any New Year’s Resolutions this year? Or are you just saying “good riddance” to 2020? Maybe try reaching out to friends. Texting is fine but there’s nothing like hearing their voice. Plus, like I always told the kids, you can’t judge someone’s true meaning in a text because you can’t hear the inflection in their voice.