Q: i'm at a legal focus group and everyone who's showed up waiting at this table is on their phone. including me. except this one woman and she's twiddling her thumbs probably noticing the same thing. i wish i weren't but i'm just not.  a conversationalist.          don't want to keep on like this but it seems like a whole lot of other people are too. have wanted to work on the basic human connection thing for a long time.  but there's a lot of other things too.  how do you jump into the cold deep end when there's a lot of other important pools to jump into. aaa.  aaaaaaaaaaa.    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.  panicked screams at a respectful indoor volume.
A: have you tried jumping onto the ground plane