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Do you answer the phone in your own home? You weirdo!
Just had a weird phone conversation.
"Hello, this is Jooseppi. May I please ask who's calling?" "Uh... umm ... is [My Dad] there?" "No, he's not available right now. Would you like me to take a message?" "Um. This is [A store]. We have a question for him about [His order]." "Would you like me to provide you a phone number you can reach him at?" "Um... is this an answering service?" "No, this is his son. He's just not at home right now." "Um, oh, OK. Yeah, I'll take the number if you have it." Since when did answering the phone in your own home get so weird?
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I can usually tell when I'm going to get conversations like that. My method is to say
"hello?" "hello?" "hello?" "f'cking phone" hang up
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What's wierd is you have a landline
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My ringer is turned off. I use it to call out only and dsl.
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I don't answer the phone; I have a machine that does that and thereby screens out nuisance calls. For many good reasons it's a landline.
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If it's a # I don't recognize I won't answer it. That's what I use my answering machine for.
If they are really of any importance to me, they'll leave a msg with their contact details and why they called. If not, they weren't important enough for me to answer. |
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Are there still fax machines? Then is any one still waiting to share half of some billionaire from Nigeria's fortune for letting them deposit it into your account.
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Sadly, yes, the things are still used in business. Though a fax-modem or virtual fax can make them paperless and prevent wasted toner/paper printing fax spam. (Yes, fax spam exists, unfortunately.)
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People still send nuisance faxes to numbers. That's the main reason I still have an inexpensive landline with a machine to screen incoming calls, and automatically reject faxes.
I agree with jake, if it's important enough for me to consider a reply, then they can leave a message. My friends know that if they say 'pick it up' and I hear them, I will. It's simple and effective and no annoying faxes or unsolicited time wasters. I have an old 'clamshell' cell phone that I only use for outgoing calls or communicating on a jobsite; it provides all the 'connectedness' I need for a flat hundred bucks per year. This communications technology is for my convenience, not theirs.
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I always answer " Hi, how are you going?" if its an unsolicited time waster, they then need to say what/who they want.
If its a tellymarketer, I normally just vent all my frustrations on them. Its fair enough to try & get some thing positive out of the call. A friend of mine likes to carry on with a lot of jibberish talk that has them asking what language they are speaking.
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I had a land line till I got into a dispute so I cancelled it. Now the sad task of finding a cheap way to fax her narcotic scripts she writes to the different pharmacies. Used to be she could DIY now I'd have to do it.
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I can't do without a landline. My walls are between a foot and a half and two feet thick solid earth with two inches of concrete stucco on top of that. Cell signal in the house sucks.
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Quote:
Have you tried all the carriers around your area? Some carriers are better than others in a given area and suck at another area.
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Also, if you have Internet, you can get wifi calling on a cell phone. Though personally, I still prefer a landline, since the connection doesn't sound like excrement.
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imagine going into a deli and asking the clerk if you can take his order. role reversal. as we know, the only appropriate phone answer is silence and heavy labored breathing. when they ask "hello hello", you wait 3 seconds and say "who the **** is this" like batman. they rarely call back.
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