Bossman and his wife are on holiday for ten days which means that the Project Manager is out of the office more often.
Mostly I don't mind being alone in the office. But when I have a lot of work and the phone rings non stop it kind of annoys me. I hate answering the phone and would never answer it if someone else is in the office.
At home I would only answer the phone if there is nobody else in the house. We used to have an answering machine which meant I did not have to answer it at all. I loved that. If I am really engrossed in something and the phone rings I will just ignore it completely.
Sometimes when bossman and I are in the office on a Friday we just do not answer the phone.
I actually hate speaking on the phone. Home phone or mobile phone - they both annoy me. I prefer face to face or via msn and Facebook. If I must talk on the phone I try to keep it short.
Of course, now and then it is nice to have a long chat with my sister or my mum but that would be an uncommon event. And I am never so rude that I will cut a phone call short.
You could say it is unsociable and I may well agree.
My sister in law is a phone whore. She will talk on the phone for hours. Call after call. One time she came over to look after my son when my husband and I were out. The next day my son said that she was on the phone for the entire evening. About five hours. What on earth is there to say? Was her ear not sore?
Not only that, most of the people she talks to are ones she also sees on a regular basis. I could understand if perhaps they lived in another state which is the situation with my mother and sister, but she will speak to someone for two hours that she had coffee with only three days beforehand.
Maybe I just have nothing to say.
Ciao
LC
what about people who won't let you off the phone. my beloved, most favorite cousin is like that. i love her dearly, yet don't need to talk twice a day for an hour and a half EACH TIME.
ReplyDeletethe problem with voice mail is that you then have to return all the calls.
oooo, i am curmudgeonly today. i actually do like talking to people, but not when grumpy!!!
re; your last post. i'll bet cheffy does hit on lots of women, but i'd also bet he only asks for the number of extremely hot, hot gals.
I agree! I hate, hate, hate to talk on the phone! I'd rather text, e-mail, or talk face to face. I've been told I'm unsociable and don't contact family/friends enough. Oh well! It's nice to see I'm not the only one who dislikes a telephone! :-)
ReplyDeleteIHTW: And, even when you try to wind up the phone call they keep onto a new topic which is loosely based on the old topic.
ReplyDeleteI think the chef wanted to feed me macaroons in private. All colours of the rainbow.
Liz: I think people who blog are really a bit anti social in general. I could email all day long - it is so much more personal and I can multi task and communicate at the same time. Unlike a phone - you are stuck there.
I am also another one who does not phone people and I don't answer when people phone me. People really resent that! It's a great way to lose friends. I can email or text or facebook all day, but they don't seem to like that. People want to talk on the phone. My idea of a phone call is one that takes 20 seconds and is used to determine when and where I am meeting someone.
ReplyDeleteI turned off my answering machine because I never listened to it, and my mother in law was quite angry at me, saying there was no way to get in touch with me, even though there was a message on the phone line giving my cell phone number.
Phone people vs non phone people. It can be quite stressful.
Harriet: I wonder if the fact the voice comes out of an inanimate object is the issue. Face to face is fine with me so it is not the actual talking aspect that bothers me.
ReplyDeleteI think older people often won't ring mobile numbers because of the cost. Or there are too many numbers or something.
I share your puzzlement too, and find it really stressful to talk with people a long time.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we are introverts and they are extroverts?
Struggling Topiary: I think we are the introverts and perhaps prattling on the phone just does not connect us with people properly (as opposed to the personal email and text).
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