Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to...
Wavy lines to 10 years ago and first year of university...

Met a nice girl, a few boundary and ex boyfriend issues but generally a good solid girlfriend other little quirks included finding sex a bit painful and encouraging me to finish as quickly as possible (not normally a problem) and only giving me a blow job if I wore a condom. So after a few weeks together it was the Easter break and living in halls meant we both had to go back to our respective home towns. No great problem it was only 2 weeks and we both had Orange mobiles, she had the Orange everyday 50 (or 60 I can't remember exactly) plan, which meant she could phone me every day for free for 50 minutes.

So she did!

Everyday I got, in minute detail, what she had been doing, normally the same thing as the day before, it would normally take about 5 minutes to bore each other with our day's limited activity. Then I would be subjected to 45 minutes of tedium about life growing up in a small Welsh village, random drivel and awkward long silences whilst I counted down the minutes. As soon as the 50 minutes had passed, and I felt I had performed my boyfriend duty I would gently remind her that we (she) had been talking for 50 minutes. She, without fail, would say that it was only 1p a minute anyway so we can continue talking until I could find a reason to hang up (even to the point of rubbing my stubble on the receiver to sound like interference and a bad line).

Anyway after about 10 days of this she called me whilst quite drunk, I had just poured myself a generous Vodka and Orange when she called, I don't remember any of the conversation and I woke up hungover to a text message saying "I hope we can still be friends".

We didn't really see each other much after that, although it did turn out that it wasn't 1p a minute after she had used her allowance and she had ended up spending a fortune on boring me to tears and ending our relationship, oh well.
(Little Animal Disaster isn't finishing what he started, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 18:19, 6 replies)

Are you me?
Same deal, except we both had everyday 50 (the clue's in the number of minutes you got a day).

Using a potential hour and a half of talk time every day rapidly turned into tedium. I wasn't confident enough to admit that I was bored out of my mind and so just stuck with it.

I wish I knew then what I know now, I'd have had much more fun at University.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 21:26, closed)

I don't think I'm you
I couldn't remember if it was 50 or 60 minutes, for some reason I think it was 60 minutes, but everyday 50 just rolls of the tongue better.
(Little Animal Disaster isn't finishing what he started, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 22:03, closed)

It was everyday50
The main problem for me came when she went abroad for a year but still insisted on talking for hours. As a kicker she was too scared to go and set up a landline in her flat so was using her mobile.

After a month or so the bills rolled in, something in the region of £700 per month and of course, who has to help her pay it? Absolutely crippled me financially.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Fri 5 Aug 2011, 8:30, closed)

I had one of those but she used to call my landline and talk non stop. Got to the stage where I could carefully put the phone on the bench and go and get a beer or have a pee or whatever and come back and she wouldnt even notice I was gone.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 22:22, closed)

This!
When you can do that, then you know it's really over.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Fri 5 Aug 2011, 8:26, closed)

Are you my old roommate
Marc?

He used to do this with his long distance g/f in New Jersey all the time.
( intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Sat 6 Aug 2011, 23:20, closed)