Overheard conversation on the van.

[peggy_bill]

Rider A: I have a friend who spends all of his time playing chess online

Comments

[hurricanedeck]

Oh, the evil internets!! LOL

Did you fall over laughing???

[peggy_bill]

I put in my earphones & turned up my IPod.

[wytchlady]

Yes, yes, because doing nothing or watching TV is SO much better. The TV has told me it is!

Addictions (I apologize in advance if this is too serious for LJ)

[moftsd]

I've come up with a concept of addiction: it's what you're always thinking about, even when you're not doing or thinking something about the substance or activity of your addiction. It's worked pretty well to help me identify some minor addictions (afflictions? compulsions?) in myself, and to help illustrate to others how a cigarette or a bottle of booze can exert so much control over you. By themselves, they are inert, but your relationship to them is what's f'd up and making it hard for other people to be with you.

Coming from that perspective of addiction, as I read your post I considered that the addict here is not the chess player. It might be the addiction labeler (and, ostensibly, the TV watcher). After all, the nature of this existence seems to be that whatever you have inside of yourself tends to appear outside of yourself.

Re: Addictions (I apologize in advance if this is too serious for LJ)

[peggy_bill]

I think the real issue is this man is 60 and nothing modern could be as important as what he does.

[earthwomyn06]

::opening mouth:::closing mouth::opening mouth::closing mouth:::
I got nothing to add lol

[wytchlady]

Wow....

she's speechless

:P