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Posted by Ed Pawlowski on July 8, 2009, 10:30 pm
> I do not understand people who can't figure out that a ringing
> telephone is an indication, not a summons. Not that you are one of
> those people, but I'm sure you know one or more of them: Morons who
> can't NOT pick up the phone when it rings.
Explain that to my wife. I have to almost physically restrain her at the
dinner table when the phone rings.
We have an answering machine, caller ID, and chances are, the call is for my
grandson and chances are he is not home anyway. Sit and enjoy your meal.
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Posted by Wayne Boatwright on July 9, 2009, 12:12 am
On Wed 08 Jul 2009 07:30:16p, Ed Pawlowski told us...
>
>> I do not understand people who can't figure out that a ringing
>> telephone is an indication, not a summons. Not that you are one of
>> those people, but I'm sure you know one or more of them: Morons who
>> can't NOT pick up the phone when it rings.
>
> Explain that to my wife. I have to almost physically restrain her at
> the dinner table when the phone rings.
>
> We have an answering machine, caller ID, and chances are, the call is
> for my grandson and chances are he is not home anyway. Sit and enjoy
> your meal.
Our land line is used only by our fax machine and security system; there is
no phone attached. The fax machine is set to answer on the first ring and
the internal ringer is set to off. The security system has its own
internal communication device, so we would definitely know if there was a
security issue. We each use a cell phone (common account) for voice
communication, but if we're otherwise occupied, we never answer them unless
we're expecting a call. Of course the cell phones have both Caller ID and
voicemail, as well as the option to block selected numbers (the phone
doesn't even ring for the blocked numbers).
I have ALWAYS considered having a phone to be solely for my convenience and
my choice to answer it or not.
--
Wayne Boatwright
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Eggs Benedict is genius. Its eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on,
that person should be the president. ~Wylie Dufresne
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Posted by Ed Pawlowski on July 9, 2009, 5:55 am
> I recall once waiting for a half hour for the person to get off the
> cell, so I could finish my conversation with them. That was the last
> time I did that. These days, I simply walk away if they are on the
> cell more than 2 or 3 minutes. I dont care if it's business or a
> friendly conversation I was having. If they are so rude to stay on
> the phone for more than a couple minutes, and make me wait, I can be
> just as rude and walk away without saying goodbye or anything.
I once called a friend (long distance) and he put me on hold three times
because his call waiting beeped. The last time I hung up on him and I've
not called back yet. That was 15 years ago.
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Posted by George on July 9, 2009, 3:33 pm
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> I recall once waiting for a half hour for the person to get off the
>> cell, so I could finish my conversation with them. That was the last
>> time I did that. These days, I simply walk away if they are on the
>> cell more than 2 or 3 minutes. I dont care if it's business or a
>> friendly conversation I was having. If they are so rude to stay on
>> the phone for more than a couple minutes, and make me wait, I can be
>> just as rude and walk away without saying goodbye or anything.
>
> I once called a friend (long distance) and he put me on hold three times
> because his call waiting beeped. The last time I hung up on him and I've
> not called back yet. That was 15 years ago.
>
>
Unfortunately lots of folks don't know one of the common uses of
voicemail. One friend did the "someone is on the other line routine" a
few times and I politely asked if his voicemail wasn't working. He never
did it again. If someone calls I look at the CID. If it is really
important I excuse myself and offer to call back. If not the second call
goes to voicemail.
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Posted by Red Green on July 10, 2009, 9:41 am
>
>> I recall once waiting for a half hour for the person to get off the
>> cell, so I could finish my conversation with them. That was the last
>> time I did that. These days, I simply walk away if they are on the
>> cell more than 2 or 3 minutes. I dont care if it's business or a
>> friendly conversation I was having. If they are so rude to stay on
>> the phone for more than a couple minutes, and make me wait, I can be
>> just as rude and walk away without saying goodbye or anything.
>
> I once called a friend (long distance) and he put me on hold three
> times because his call waiting beeped. The last time I hung up on him
> and I've not called back yet. That was 15 years ago.
>
>
So, are you still friends? :-)
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> telephone is an indication, not a summons. Not that you are one of
> those people, but I'm sure you know one or more of them: Morons who
> can't NOT pick up the phone when it rings.