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'Couldn't you just text these to me?'

Woman at mailbox hears, 'You've got junk mail.'

"But I'm supposed to be a soft serve ice cream emoji."

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"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

'Bob, I know you're a Mockingbird, but a few compliments every now and then would greatly help your marriage...'

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

'I'm majoring in communication and minoring in pizza delivery - What about you?'

Graduates on their phones

She - Interpreter - He.

Ruddy bloggers!

'The usual ‘nod, nod, wink, wink' will do, Walter. We don't need the eyebrow twitch and nostril flares.'

'Don't bite. They're trolling again.'

"Hi, you've reached Susan's desk. I am monotasking right now, so I'll call you back it's the phone's turn again. Beep!"

My wife's been talking to the skin I shed for over an hour.

"When we first started seeing each other, we would always use the same word for snow."

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

'Boss, it seems like a friendly text, but you've got to learn to read between the emoticons.'

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

"Out of all your 277 passwords, not once did you use my name. Are you losing feelings for me?"

Presentation Skills: 1. Be Prepared.

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

The Love Psychologists

'Before we get started, let's go around the table and practice making eye contact.'

'I was just ringing to see if you'd got the email about my letter.'

'No, there's nothing on my mind, but if there was I don't want to talk about it.'

Technological advances within the office.

Relationship Issues.

How to engage an audience

'We had seven gloriously happy years together, and then he learned how to talk.'

"We don't talk."

'He says he needs his own space.'