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Shawn Hirn  <srhi@comcast.net> writes:

> I simply don't answer my phone unless the Caller-ID display
> indicates the caller is someone I know. Hell, even if the
> caller is someone I know, I still feel no obligation to
> interrupt whatever I might be doing to answer the phone.


I'm the same way.  A lot of people just can't wrap their 
brains around the idea that I don't have the usual quasi-
Pavlovian response when my telephone rings.  It's funny to
watch them squirm: "Uhh...aren't you going to answer that?"

I'm the one who pays for my phone, and the sumbitch is there
for _my_ convenience -- not the rest of the world's.

Ever noticed that with a lot of people, every new incoming
call is more important than the one they're already on?
I don't get that.  In the case of customer-service people,
I'll even go so far as to say that it pisses me off.  "Why
are you so eager to get me off the phone?  Why is the next
customer any more important than _I_ am?"

I also don't get the way so many people will interrupt a 
face-to-face conversation in order to answer the phone.  
As far as I'm concerned, unless I'm expected an important
call, a person I'm speaking with in the flesh takes prec-
edence over anyone who calls me on the friggin' phone.
That's just good manners.




Geoff

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