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mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5787
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:12 pm: |     |
I despise it. Anyone else with this syndrome? |
Oldstone
Citizen
Username: Rogers4317
Post Number: 570
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:19 pm: | |
you are not alone. |
redY67
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 4949
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:29 pm: | |
I on the other hand am completely the opposite. Drives some of my friends crazy. I have learned over the years to take the cues from friends that can't stand it! |
las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 1035
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:41 pm: | |
I hate the phone. I refuse to check voice mails. Email works for me - especially in the office. |
Scrotis Lo Knows
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 823
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:43 pm: | |
i can talk on the phone but on a VERY limited basis.
My best friend is funny though. He is like a charged battery on the phone and you can actually experience him draining as the conversation goes on...
my wife doesn't like the phone either but has her moments in the glory. Take the other night for instance. Out of the blue she picks up the phone at 9:30 at night to call her mom to talk about the Olympic figure skaters for an hour while watching it on TV. I gave her periodic look as if she was smoking crack....  |
Purplebug
Citizen
Username: Purplebug
Post Number: 53
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:48 pm: | |
I hate talking on the phone nowadays. Mostly due to the cell phone explosion. Trying to understand what the person is saying, static, deadzones. Actually, what I really hate is call waiting. If I am talking to you and you are talking to me, don't switch over to someone else and start talking to them. Emergencies I can understand, but it is never an emergency. It has to do with being nosy and needing quick gratification. Heck, miss a phone call once in a while, the other person will know you have a life. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5790
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 5:35 pm: | |
I rarely answer my phone, and have to remind myself to check voicemail in case someone needs something. I'll have friends over, and if the phone rings and I don't answer, they look at me funny, like how could I let a phone call get away like that. I have to explain, 1. I don't answer my phone. 2. Even if I did, how rude is it to pick up the phone when you have a guest(s)?
Then, I get thrown when I'm visiting someone and their phone rings, and they blithely answer it and start chatting away. It amazes me. I really hate that damn thing. Send an email, I can at least sort them. |
Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 4097
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 6:16 pm: | |
My mom is the Phone Queen! When she is home, which is almost never according to the kids, she has the phone against her ear! You should hear when she leaves messages on people's machines! I was told by a couple of her friends they set their machines to cut off after 30 seconds because my mom would sometimes leave five minute messages. I don't even listen to messages my mom leaves because they are so long. |
Shawna
Citizen
Username: Lucies_mom
Post Number: 98
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 6:35 pm: | |
I thought I hated it. Then I realized it's a phobia. I get tense. When I get off the phone, my hand is frozen in the claw-like phone holding position and my knuckles are white.
I've realized it's a a phobia of mine for about 3 years now and i think I have become better with it since I've realized it. I had a co-worker that I shared this info with and when she saw me holding the phone too tightly she'd remind me to relax.
But people do use the phone too much, in my opinion. I hate this one: (ring ring ) "Hello?" "Did you get my e-mail?" Give me a break! So now I have to reply to you on the phone AND e-mail?
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Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 21
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 12:25 am: | |
Mem really hates the phone!! I can vouch for that!
What I love doing is answering the phone with stupid stuff. I was actually at Mem's one night and the phone rang which mem obviously wasn't going to answer so I asked if I can answer it ..
This is how the conversation went:
Bajou: "South Orange Insane Asylum".
Caller: silence
Bajou: South Orange Insane Asylum, are you looking for a patient.
Caller: I am looking for ... (mem)
Bajou: Yes we have a patient by that name
Caller: Silence
Bajou: .... (mem) is in the middle of treatment, would you like to hold or may I take a message?
Caller: Hangs up.
Thank god they called back and we had a good laugh.
By the way to get rid of the pesky sales calls just answer your phone with: "Maplewood Sewer Systems, how may I connect your call".. they will strike you number from the database.
Bajou |
thegoodsgt
Citizen
Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 925
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 7:29 am: | |
I hate talking on cell phones. Quality is always spotty, and I can't stand that slight delay between speaking and being heard.
The cell phone is a product of the devil himself. And he's making a fortune. |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 8740
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 7:53 am: | |
Just yesterday.
::ring::
hi this is dave ross
[silence]
hello?
[heavy Indian accent] hello, i am looking for a David Ross.
yes
hello?
yes, that's me
this is the internet registrar authority. are you the administrative contact for [name of a medical research group who is my client]?
you are who?
the internet registrar authority. we monitor all domains.
what does that mean?
I need to send you a one time fax. what is your fax number, please.
Are you Dotster? That's who I register through.
No, we are above and beyond them. What is your fax number?
I don't have a fax [lying], can't you e-mail it to me?
Our e-mail server is currently being updated with the latest anti-virus software, so I cannot e-mail this now. What is your alternative fax number?
I can wait for you to finish the software update. Send me the e-mail when you're done.
I really need to fax you this right now. It's very urgent.
Why don't you read it to me?
I'm sorry.
Read me the urgent message.
I cannot. Law provides I fax it to you.
Which law?
I'm sorry?
Which law says you must fax me an urgent message from Mumbai rather than read it to me? [city was a guess]
What is your alternative fax number?
Should we start at the top?
I'm sorry?
I don't have an alternative fax number. Maybe you should move on to the next lucky person on your list?
Perhaps someone in a nearby office has a fax machine?
Perhaps they do.
I can hold if you want to learn it.
They're on vacation in Colorado. If you call back tomorrow I'll tell you where they're staying and you can fax it to their hotel. Then they can carry your urgent message back to me in a week. However, I'll need a credit card number from you to pay for the expense of receiving the fax.
[long pause]
Hello?
[disconnect] |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 6773
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:19 am: | |
Dave - 
I used to hate chatting on the phone. I still do, but I talk to my mom every day, so I've gotten over it a bit. There have been times when she's been sick & my cell phone doesn't stop ringing. Then, I want to throw it out the window.
Before my mom got sick, I never turned my cell phone on unless I was in the car (emergencies) or out somewhere and expecting someone to call me. Example: meeting my brother or TS at a restaurant, I'd leave it on in case someone was running late and wanted to call.
Since she's been sick, however, I have it with me 24/7, which is a real PIA. And I have to answer all unidentified calls because sometimes it's a doctor. Ugh.
My biggest, hugest pet peeve is people who take calls in the middle of a meal (cell or home). I think that it is just about the rudest thing in the entire world.
TS hates the phone so much that she won't answer it. I can be in the bathroom, she'll be sitting on the couch with the phone in front of her. It rings & she'll yell out "it's your (brother, mother, grandmother, etc.)". Or, I'll call someone about something that involves both of us (i.e., find out if something we ordered has come in yet). They will return the call and ask for me. She'll say I'm busy/not home. When she takes the message and they tell her who is calling, instead of saying "oh, she called about _________ ", she'll give me the message. When I ask her why she didn't ask about the whatever, she'll say "they asked for you".
Drives me absolutely nuts. |
Ms. Cooper
Citizen
Username: Ms_cooper
Post Number: 52
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:33 am: | |
Hate, hate, hate the phone.
Hate "owing" someone a phone call--it hangs over me like a storm-cloud of guilt that just grows and grows with each day I don't pick up the phone and make the dreaded call.
It is even worse when you haven't spoken to someong in a long time (see above) and you know it is going to be a lengthy call because there is so much ground to cover.
How do you "disengage" when someone is spilling the dramatic details of the past few months of their personal lives? On the flip side, I feel weird when the person on the other end says "gotta go" after I have just told my life story/spilled guts, etc.
I have this friend who used to call me on her cell phone when she was driving. Not only am I totally against talking on the phone whilst driving, but how could she be paying attention AND carrying on a conversation. She always sounded distracted. I told her not to call me from her car anymore and she was SO offended. Whatever...
Horrible. |
Purplebug
Citizen
Username: Purplebug
Post Number: 56
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:47 am: | |
I also hate when you are on the phone and the person on the other line is having a conversation with someone else. I was talking to you first and then you decide to start a conversation with someone else (non-emergency). And the dreaded third person is brought into the conversation, usually someone who I could care a rat's behind about. "I don't care what they have to say, I called to talk to you," is what I want to say. And mind you this isn't when I call them, this is when they call me. D'OH!!! This is why I sometimes just leave the phone on the counter and continue doing what I was doing. Giving an uh huh, yeah, Oh really every couple of seconds. |
Parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 3660
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:28 am: | |
I spent several years as a customer service rep for New York Telephone so when I came home the last thing I wanted to do was speak to anyone on the phone.
My phone obsession was cured when I was about 20. There was this girl I liked and we spent a lot of time on the phone. One time we spoke from midnight to 6 in the morning. I later found out that she liked my brother more than she liked me. I decided there and then that all that phone time was a poor investment |
anon
Supporter
Username: Anon
Post Number: 2617
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:40 pm: | |
I am sooo glad I found this thread. I thought I was crazy, well maybe I am, but at least I am not alone in my insanity.
The invention of the telephone was one of the greatest catastrophes to befall the human race in all history! |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 2191
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:10 pm: | |
Most of the time I don't answer the phone, but I do like to have fun with tele-marketers, and sometimes make prank calls.
Something I loathe more than phone calls, are those pesky religious arsewipes that love to ring my doorbell on the weekend, if you don't answer, the freaks ring again and again.
Soooo, sometimes I strip down to my skivvies (if I'm wearing them), answer the door with my best redneck hick voice and ask them if they are the gals from the hooker service to git nekkid in my movie with me and my wife, if I try to get them to come in then, they don't, what's the deal with that? |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5807
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 10:02 am: | |
Wow monster! That's a lotta work. Just tell em you worship the devil and ask them to join you - they skedaddle off real quick.
Dave, I just said skedaddle. I need a vacation. |
Parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 3677
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 10:28 am: | |
Skedaddle- RUN AWAY, SCRAM; especially : to flee in a panic
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Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 40
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 2:51 pm: | |
Oh man Monster is my new hero...! I love pranks like that.
You know what is absolutely my biggest pet peeve...this conversation.
Setting: commuter train sometime around 7:30
Hi hun it's me! (no sh*t how many people call him/her hun)
What are you doing? (Well, he/she is on the phone with you)
I am on the train. (No sh*t Sherlock)
I will be at the station at 8.14 (like everyday unless the train is late)
What's for dinner? (who cares it was already cooked so you better eat it)
Great (or a fake "GGGreat")see you at home.(Not if I strangle you first for having the same god darn conversation every day for the last 12 years.
Dear people, call your partners, husbands, wifes, girl/boy friends when the train is late not when it's on time because I cannot stand listening to 20 such mundane conversations per train ride.
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Oldstone
Citizen
Username: Rogers4317
Post Number: 594
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 2:54 pm: | |
as long as monster is your new hero and not your new mol spouse...
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Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 44
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 3:43 pm: | |
How could you think that way of me!! How could you think that I would so quickly turn my affection from my online spouse ...drama...sigh!
Hey how could you think I'd dump a four legged cutie for a two legged horse.
Bajou |
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