I'm lonesome for a good buddy I can call and tell her to get herself over here, or I'm going to eat all the cookies!  Or some other dumb thing.

I have friends. But they're not conversationalists. I don't have anyone anymore I can insult, and she'll come right back at me with an even better one.

One person is great company, but she's totally unreliable. She says she'll come over tomorrow and bring me an article we were talking about. It may be 3 weeks before I see her again.

Another is a very good friend, but she's touchy. Temperamental. I feel I'm walking on eggs whenever we're together. I let her rant on sometimes, but dare not make a comment that she might perceive as contradictory. 

One friend is very helpful when I need someone to schlep something for me. And I've helped her, too, on occasion. But as a conversationalist, she's a monologue.

Another is more of an acquaintance, and she's a total bore. Suspicious of everyone. Won't even go to the mailbox without locking her door. Always complaining about something.

Another lives too far away for a casual drop-in. We're on opposite sides of the political spectrum, so that subject is a big taboo. But otherwise, we've had some good chats.

Another person I dearly love, whose conversation sparkles, lives half-way across the continent.

A former neighbor now lives in a little town on the north coast of California. We had some grand times together. 

Megan lives an hour and a half away by commercial airplane, and it's too darned expensive to fly up for a cuppa and a rollicking good chat.

And there's my sister. We keep in touch with a almost daily chat via Messenger.  That's better than nothing, but face-to-face is better.

*great big sigh*

What I need is a couple of gal-pals who can chat the legs off a chair. Who can talk/debate about anything without getting mad at each other for her stupid left/right/centrist/whatever opinions. Or just commiserate with each other about their rotten kids. Or the damn cat that scratched a hole in the new sofa. Or. Or. Or. Get the idea? I just need to have an every-so-often tongue-wagging session.


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