POLL: When's the last time you spoke to another person?

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I was just talking to my son a few minutes ago.

I live in transitional housing now and have a roommate which I talk to every day. Prior to this, when I had my own apartment, I barely spoke to anyone for days or even a week or two. My time was spend on Wrong Planet a lot or drinking beer incessantly.

I constantly talk to people. The only conditions are that these people cannot be emotional as debates go to hell when people get emotional. I tend to like to debate with people rationally. I do it daily over Skype.

a few seconds ago.

The last time I spoke to another person was this afternoon when I went to Tim Horton's and than the library with one of my two closest friends.

I am the opposite, I tend to get very emotional and so despise debating, I'd prefer to avoid it and chatter in a friendly fashion with someone who shares my opinions. Far less stressful for me. I also find that I tend to try to emotionally distance myself from people whose opinions are the opposite of mine, because it's just too painful for me to get close to them; I can't separate the opinion from the person. There's a sort of cognitive dissonance in being friendly with somebody who doesn't share a core value of mine, and that sense of extreme unease never really goes away.

Unfortunately this means there are very few people with whom I can really get into indepth discussions about the things I care about. I don't know anybody IRL who shares many of my opinions, just people who tell me my opinions don't matter. :/

I have great respect for people who can be on close/friendly terms with those who are the exact opposite of them; that's something I could never do. (And I get lots of criticism about it. )

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I live by myself and don't have friends. The only people that I talk to are my coworkers, the deli people in the supermarket (to tell them that I want turkey breast) and a neighbor. I think that out of those people, the neighbor is the only one that counts as 'another person' for this poll. I spoke to him about two weeks ago.

I've spoken to people today. Everyday I need to say at least the basics (Good morning/Good afternoon) at work and I talk everyday with my mother too.

No I have never spoken to anyone in a month.


What kind of dumb poll is this? Unless you live on a deserted island or under a rock you're going to talk to at least someone within a week.

WRONG!! I live alone, and don't have any friends, and there have been times when I didn't have a job interview, for a month; and, thereby, didn't talk to anyone, for a month!!

Suggestion: Don't speak so matter-of-factly----you'll probably be proven wrong, almost EVERY time!!

I'm mute so haven't spoken to anyone in a long time.

My landlord came by for about thirty seconds last Thursday, to check the smoke detectors and ask about the noisy neighbors. Talked to my mom on the phone for a couple minutes on Tuesday, she did most of the talking. Said hello and thank you to a couple store clerks the first week of the month.

Are you a cat?

I grumble and growl unintelligibly at people if they try to converse with me before around 4PM.

Last night, I said a few words to the man delivering my groceries. Most weeks unless family phone I doubt I speak a 100 words a week to another person.

The question should be:

When's the last day when you NEVER spoke to ANY person all day long?