"I'm anti-social, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking about thing like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. "Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecking place with the big steel ball. Or go you in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lamp-posts, playing 'chicken' and 'knock hub.caps.' I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right, I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is wither shouting or dancing around like wild or bearing up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?"
"You sound very old."
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