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A friend told me that her mother phoned, and was talking to her for like an hour. Small town stuff; who'd died, who'd gone bust, the price of fish. My friend just said "uhuh" and "really" about every seven minutes, and was multi-tasking; picking up her email and folding her washing whilst she didn't listen. She told me later she had absolutely no idea what her mother was talking about. And what's great is, that because of her mother's early-onset Alzheimers, her mother won't remember she's told her the story before when she tells it again.

That's what you call a win-win situation. Except the only person who benefited was the phone company.