Version 2.0

The other day I was in the car with my mother. Somehow, in the course of the conversation, it came up that I use a different voice when I am on the phone with her than I do with other people. The “Family Voice” if you will. She got a little upset and offended by this, thinking it meant I was warning my friends I was on the phone with her or that it meant I don’t tell her as much as I would someone else. 

I told her that this was not the case. She simply got an “upgraded” version of me. Me 2.0. I explained that this means she gets a softer, more polite tone and an upgraded social filter (by upgraded I mean she actually GETS as social filter. Something I don’t normally have.) She seemed satisfied by this explanation but I think now she is wondering what I am like without the upgraded social filter……She really doesn’t want to know.