I HAD JUST found out that I was not socially acceptable.
“Tell me something I don’t already know,” said my wife Dawn. “Why do you think we get so few invitations?”
“I know I’ve always had trouble making meaningless small talk with people who don’t hunt or fish or shoot,” I said. “But I’m talking about this obsession my social circle has with pasting on social mediocrity. I feel I’m an outsider now because I’m a social illegitimate.”
“I think you mean ‘social media’ and ‘social illiterate,’” she said. “Maybe just plain illiterate too.”
I explained to her that all of my buddies were spending less time hunting and more time on their phones, pasting, chirping, taking selfishlies, running laps, and going on Instant Facial Recognition.
“Do you mean that they’re posting, tweeting, taking selfies,…
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Game & Fish East (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2017