Answering the Phone ...

[gimygirl 0]

[almaty 19]

sister monique..we do not nahve a land line..i only iuse cell phone..which sanita my parents and myself are on my plan...i screen all calls..as i do not like to talk to chopf##ks and not get paid for it

[gimygirl 0]

lmao deaners!!! that's great! i love your response!!

as i sat there looking at my poll ... i thought: there, i've covered all the bases!

i never thought about those that just use their cell phone ... that's becoming the new thing now ... not to have a landline!

i like the way you think!

[sparkofcreation 0]

I answer all my phone calls at home, but I don't pick up my cell phone if I don't recognize the number. I get a lot of professional calls and usually I'm too busy to take them, so I let them go to voicemail and call back.

Although apparently the person who lived in my apartment three apartments ago (the one I lived in from 2002-2004) after me was a real deadbeat because somehow credit agencies got my phone number (which is the same number I had when I lived there) and they call me looking for her *all the time*. And since it's legal to start calling at 8 am in New Jersey, and I now live in New Mexico, that means my home phone* often starts ringing at 6 am. But I figure it's better to answer and tell them it's not me than ignore it. Usually one creditor will call three or four days in a row before they finally take my word that it's not me.

*I have Vonage, so I've had the same phone number for 4 years despite moving cross-country. I have a dummy phone number that's local here in ABQ, but obviously the New Jersey number still works.

Edited June 18, 2006 by sparkofcreation

[Jenn! 918]

I just use my cell phone too. I hate it though; I feel like I'm too available. I often ignore calls and figure if it's important enough, people will leave a voicemail....

[*Robert* 2]

Answering machine at home. Yes I screen my calls. Caller ID on my cell phone. Yes I screen my calls. If I don't know you... I'm not talking to you!

[Welshcookie 17]

I don't have Caller ID on my home phone so I just answer it but if a number comes up on my mobile that I don't know I don't take it.....I only give out my mobile number to those I want to have it.

Edited June 18, 2006 by welshcookie

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

oh i enjoy it when a solicitor calls me

for some reason they never call back

[iceyspots 0]

who's being chased by bill collectors

[Aymerlu 3]

After talking to patients on the phone all day long, the last thing I want to do when I get home is talk on the phone. I do screen my calls, but I'm just way too busy in the evenings to chat on the phone more.

[Nessa 23]

I am not a phone person. I usually answer when i'm close to the phone. If i'm trying to take a nap i ignore it, let the machine answer and if i like the person i can call back

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

I screen every call. There are too many chronic, compulsive gossipers and complainers in my life. I just can't bear to be on the phone some days.

Sorry edited double post.

Edited June 19, 2006 by Elizabethnhenry

[ktun 0]

Yep, caller ID at home, dont know how I lived without it. Screen all calls, apart from when it double rings....that's England calling and I always want to talk to them

Dont always want to talk to mother-in-law or 24 Hour Fitness who keep calling to try to sign me up to their fantastic new facility at 80th & Cass, I told them no several times, but they dont give up! Guess have to give them credit for persistence.

[ktun 0]

Yep, caller ID at home, dont know how I lived without it. Screen all calls, apart from when it double rings....that's England calling and I always want to talk to them

Dont always want to talk to mother-in-law or 24 Hour Fitness who keep calling to try to sign me up to their fantastic new facility at 80th & Cass, I told them no several times, but they dont give up! Guess have to give them credit for persistence.

[ktun 0]

Sorry, tripple post

Edited June 22, 2006 by ktun