Nothing succeeds like address.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Polite conversation is rarely either.
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.