Is This Anything? 3
1) I often get told I end phonecalls prematurely, as in, I hang up before the other person thinks we've finished the Goodbye Ritual. I think this may be because TV has seeped into my brain too much, and on telly they don't want to "waste time" on repetition.
Supposedly the trend of people shouting into a speakerphone while hanging out in public also comes from television, where producers made reality show contestants do it in order to capture both sides of a conversation with minimal fuss, then actual humans inexplicably decided to do it too. Moral of the story: don't take your social cues from television!
2) if I send someone an email and they don't reply, there's generally a low chance that a week later I'll remember I sent it to them, and an even lower chance I'm upset that they didn't reply.
But if someone sends me an email and I haven't replied a week later, there's a high chance that I'm constantly thinking about that email and feeling terrible for not having replied yet.
Occasionally people message me to say "sorry I didn't reply to your email yet!", but (as mentioned) this is backwards because I don't care about that; people should be sending me an apology email when I haven't replied to them.
3) Amazon should do me a solid and make movie rentals 52 hours instead of 48. The current setup stresses me out, and often stops me from renting movies at all: I don't know if I'm going to finish it tonight, and if I don't finish it tonight I have to finish it tomorrow, and maybe tomorrow I won't feel like it.
I can't watch it overmorrow because 48 hours isn't enough for that, realistically: if I start at 8pm Monday I have to finish by 8pm Wednesday, which means watching the second half at 6pm or whatever, and realistically I shan't. But if they just stretched out my rental deadline a few more hours I would have three whole evenings to finish it, and boy that would be nice.
p.s. I emailed jeff@amazon.com with the above suggestion, because I read ages ago that this was a thing you could do. Only after sending the email did I remember that Jeff Bezos no longer works at Amazon. This makes no actual difference to how much/little my email will be read or acted on, but I do think it's fun that the referent and its meaning are now completely detached: in the future, perhaps, Jeff Bezos will be gone but jeff@amazon.com will still be a support address for Amazon, assuming Amazon + emails outlast Jeff Bezos.