Have you ever answered your phone badly?

[digitalwanderer]

I don't usually answer mine, I let voicemail get 'em and check 'em at my leisure. It's one of the huge luxuries that I give myself in life, and a good one....but for some weird reason yesterday when my daughter was bouncing around in my lap I answered the phone, and it was someone from Gainward calling me out of the blue.

That's when my daughter took the phone out of my hand and screamed "HEHWOO? ARE YOU TAWKING TO MY FAWFTHER? WHO IS THIS?!?!?" and then started to throw herself at me laughing manically into the phone and having the best of times while I was desperately trying to quiet her down/calm her so I could figure out who I was talking to and what they were saying. :?

I HATE telephones!

 

[AlphaWolf]

I have call display, and I am intentionally incredibly rude to random callers. It seems to keep the random telemarketers from calling back.

 

[Humus]

I HATE telephones!

So do I! Or I don't hate the phone itself so much, but I don't like speaking into it. Especially not calling myself. I only do it if I absolutely have to.

 

[Mendel]

Hehee... you remember MTV's untalkative bunny? That's what I would like to do sometimes

Other than that... I have not had a phone for some good 2 years. I just hated carrying a cellular when I had it... Had to answer to all kinds of people all the time and it was really bothering me and I couldn't talk to people who were right next to me cause I had to talk to the phone all the time!

Now people think I'm a bit odd... living in The Nokia Finland with no phone! Sheesh! I'm really the odd man out but I'm generally happier now. And I make a lot of fun about my friends when their cellphone rings while we're trying to party or somesuch thing.

Well. Of course I have an email and Im on irc a lot so it's not like people can't reach me...

I do have a problem with forms in the net and real life, which have this "phone" field

 

[sytaylor]

ain't so bad shamone, me and my comaday hero ronnay barkay do it all the time...

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Nobody watches Bo Selecta then? Didn't think so

I was crap with the phone, but with work and everything you get used to it after a while. Its like speaking to someone in person, business is great practise for it. Builds your confidence etc, to a point where you don't even think about it. I can even leave a 30 second answering machine message that will sound coherent!

 

[nutball]

I don't have any mates, so nobody ever telephones me. I sometimes phone myself up every now and again just to keep the "last number that called you" woman-voice-thing from laughing at me.

 

[Mariner]

One of my friends used a phone badly once. After chatting up a young lady, he took her home before inadvertently turning his phone on, pressing redial of the last number. This wouldn't have been too much of a problem had the last number he dialed not been that of his girlfriend. She received a phone call in which she heard various unsavoury 'noises' of the sort she didn't want to hear in the early hours of the morning!

To be fair to him, his girlfriend was somewhat of a witch who had made his life a misery for years so he was better off without her when their relationship unsurprisingly ended the next day!

 

[Diplo]

For a while my home phone number was listed in Yellow Pages (a UK directory of companies) as an office supplies firm. Until I put a stop to it we used to get loads of phone calls every morning from customers wanting to buy bulk supplies of paper clips and A4 paper etc. Eventually I got so bored of explaining to them that it was the wrong number that I just ended up saying stupid things to them to confuse them. For instance, they'd ask if we had any A3 paper in stock and I'd say, "Sorry, we don't have any in stock right now. Would you like a cute baby squirel instead, sir?". Or sometimes I'd pretend to be deaf and ask them to speak up until they were yelling, then I'd tell them there was no need to yell. Ended up being quite fun in the end