When someone calls...
by Yeeeeah.. so this is my first journal, but it's kinda complainin... I think it is soooo stinkin annoying.. WHEN SOMEONE CALLS... and the dialogue goes like this...
CASE SCENARIO #1- THE UNNAMED CALLER:
RIIIING!
"Hello?" -me
"Hey" -caller
"yes?"-me
"who is this?" -caller
"what? you called me, who is this?" -me frustrated
MY COMMENT: who do you think you are calling someone's house... YOU CALLING ME!... and asking ME who I AM?? WERE YOU BORN THAT WAY?? OR IS IT AN AQUIRED TRAIT!?
CASE SCENARIO #2- THE AWKWARD PAUSE:
RIIING!
"Hello?" -me
"Hi, how are you?" -caller
"good......" -me
"this is john doe." -caller named john doe (anon)
"...........ok?" - me
"oh, is 'so-and-so' there?" -doe boy
MY COMMENT: It's like, am i supposed to know you?? do you think your name gives you special powers or somethin?? should i bow down to you?? cause right now, i wanna jst hang up on you!!
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or the caller not saying anything after the first hello, waiting for you to say hi again... thats so annoying!
I have been trained to deal with such situations after having various yelling bouts with my sister, who's friends seem not to understand the use of phone manners. Neither does my little sister. My little sister and her friend's conversation goes something like:
RIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG
Sister: "hello"
Friend: "Hi"
pause
Friend: "Want to hang out"
Sister: "Ok"
Friend: "Ok"
Sister: "bye"
Hang Up
Of course if I answer the phone it's something more along the lines of:
RINNNNNG
Me: "hello"
Friend: "hi"
Long pause
Friend: "Can I talk to Sammy"
Frustrated groan on my part
Me: "And may I ask who's calling please..."
Friend: "Lizzy"
Me yelling to my sister: "Samantha one of your stupid friends who can't talk on the phone correctly is on the phone"
YO THAT BOTHERS ME SO MUCH!! one thing i CANNOT STAND is bad phone manners. i hate it when people call and the first thing out of their mouth is "hi is alex (or anybody in my family) there?" its like, okay, do i not exist. whenever i call somebody, whoever it is, i always make a point to say who i am to the person who answers the phone, and ask how they are. its not necesary, but its polite, and manners my friends, are the crux of humanity. its so funny you say that, i always want to just hang up on them, especially when its one of my brother or sisters friends. stupid kids with no people skills. i may have killed a seagull, but at least i have phone manners! i would rather speak to a murderer with phone manners than a model citizen without them. its just something i hate.
hahahahahhaa "i may have killed a seagull but at least i have phone manners" lol! YEA RIGHT!!!!! DO YOU THINK CALLING MY MOM A JERK HAVING PHONE MANNERS??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?! hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha
haha point noted!
Hey Matt! ts Manda! I gotta get a new line...
matt, I agree, but it seems like the Journal owner, this so called "softhands" personage does not. He/she said that they don't like it when someone says who they are as if he/she is supposed to know them. I agree with you matt, and not with softhands, that if someone calls, they should tell me who they are...if I know them or not, I at least can tell whoever the call is for, who is calling. It's very polite, and not at all a nuisance
i think he is frustrated with people who call you and say "who's this?" after you say hello, without first saying who they are
thank you matt... some people are just not tuned in
i senced alot of anger in this entry....u know wat else is annoyin ED? When two guys call u at 1 AM to tell u all the horrible things they remember about you in a nice 5 min long voice mail.....hmmm yeh
ouch! any type of hate voice mail bothers me.... but getting woken UP for that?!!? thats just terrible!
were the two guys ed and someone else..
possibly......cough **DAN HILL** cough
its called you having weird friends! Stop talkin to weird people kim and it will all go away...
thats y i stoped talkin to u! OHHHH!!!!! hahaha im only kidding u know i luv u
yeah i know, whenver i call anymore you jsut dont even pick up. oh well us poor uncool people just deal with that sorta thing
wat r u talkin about u fruit! u never ever call me anymore! and when we did hang out all the time i used to call u! u jerky fruitcake!!! :P
oh, so umm what you doin saturday?
ummm....welll....ahhhhh....hmmmmm....im kinda busy haha BUT!!! Sunday! VOLLEYBALL!!!!!
hah see told you, you dont got time for little old me anymore :/ you got new and better friends now. Are the volleyball courts even open yet? I think you should find out...
duh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
You know what i hate.. when someone calls the wrong number and leaves you a 3454543 minute message about how she was wrong and that she wants to get back together and that it's not her fault that she had to walk out because all your friends showed up and you were acting ridiculous and that everything else was good it's just the attitude and how she'll never be the same again because you changed her world in unimaginable ways.. whethever bad or good you helped her grow. geez i hate when that happens.
That was my mom that called and left you that message
HAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA i love when i can picture people saying what they type.
how bout when someone calls, says hey whats up? you say nothin, whats up with you? and they say nothin... see... since they called you... they have the responsibility of making the conversation work... its on them at that point, if nothing is up? then why did you call??
ya know what I hate... when people call you and they are like... um... yes is... mr. (totally mangling my last name) there? um.. no.. they arent... (click).. WHATS with that!
sounds like your dad has a stalker
yea.. i think thats the case... or they are just rude...
You know what I hate..rude telemarketers. Sometimes when they call and ask to talk to mrs or mr prior i tell them my mom is out feeding the llamas. If they ask when she'll be back i say, we have a couple hundred and it might take a few hours. They usually hang up after that...
lol!!! thats awesome
did you really now ?
yeah i really did. the lady thought i was the strangest person ever. Needless to say, she didnt call back..
seriuosly?
woohoo heather! carrying on my older sisters tradition of talking about the llamas. My sister and I started doing that a few years ago when marketers first got bad..some of the reactions we get..very awesome. That and the reactions to "Oh sorry..my dad is the arm head overlord so he's a bit busy.."
There the best! all those i do give credit to lindsay for. sorry :)
no reason to be sorry^.^
Oh stop being such a girl, it happens to everyone,have fun with it, learn to play the bango inbetween pauses of conversation.. it is hardley the most annoying thing in the world, THE most annoying thing in the world is people who complain about stoopid stuff like this....!!!
man... you're a nice person... hope i never meet you...
Your just a sensative woman....
wow you know him so well
I like telling telemarketers that i'm blind... or just start a convo with them like they know you.. like "hello, this is steve from.." you interrupt "HEY STEVE!! WHAT"S UP, you goin down to the *insert name of local hotspot* tonight?? Dude Lisa's gonna be there and she's HOT" and ya know just see what they say.. it's great
or when you just keep saying WHAT?WHO?
so they are yelling at you who it is or who they're looking for then you can say stop yelling at me,,, they love that