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Do you screen your calls?  

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  1. 1. Do you have Caller ID, an answering machine or voice mail?

    • No, none of them
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    • Yes, Caller ID
      7
    • Yes, I have an answering machine
      14
    • Yes, I have voice mail
      1
    • Yes, I have Caller ID and an answering machine
      24
    • Yes, I have Caller ID and voice mail
      33

  2. 2. Do you use your Caller ID, answering machine or voice mail to screen your calls?

    • No, I answer every phone call when I'm home
      23
    • Yes, I only pick up the calls the I recognize on my Caller ID
      44
    • Yes, I only pick up if I recognize the voice on the answering machine
      9
    • Yes, I let every call go to voice mail and call people back
      7

  3. 3. IF you screen your calls ... why?

    • I don't screen my calls
      16
    • Too many solicitors
      14
    • I don't like to talk to certain people
      11
    • Too many bill collectors call for payment
      4
    • I just don't feel like talking on the phone sometimes
      32
    • I don't take business calls after hours
      2
    • Other - I'll explain below
      4

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I work at a rehab facility during the summer on an "as needed" basis. Unfortunately they "need" me quite often! . I don't want to work THAT much during the summer, so I screen my calls for that reason :)

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we just have cell phones - no land lines...but that being said.

I will pick up most the time unless I know it's someone I don't want to talk to. If I don't know the number, I still pick up because I'm too curious not too :) I HAVE to know who it is...

That because my cell phone never gets called by soliciters.

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I decided years ago that there were many things that I *had* to do in life...and that being a slave to a ringing phone wasn't one of them. I will let it ring, go to voicemail and pick up the message "whenever". I'll call back "whenever".

I'm slowly getting CAPS around to my way of thinking. ;)

When I was still living in Canada I actually would have my ringer off too.

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We just use cell phones too. "I just don't feel like talking on the phone sometimes" is why I don't always answer. Also, if I don't recognize the number I don't answer it and let it go to voicemail. If they don't leave a voicemail then I guess it's not important anyway! :P Sometimes I don't answer calls from people I know if I don't feel like talking on the phone at the moment. Especially if it's someone who I know will talk for a full hour on the phone. :wacko: Usually about nothing too! If it's my family I always pick it up though.

I don't really like talking on the phone. The longest amounts of time I was on the phone would be when Sujeet was still in India.

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We use the cell phone more than anything....but I have a landline for DSL service. Occasionally we use the landline to call his parents but the cell has caller id...some people I just dont want to talk to. ;)

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I have caller ID and answering machine, since one of my friends refuse to leave a message I check caller ID.

Out of 10 calls a day at least 9 are credit card companies trying to give me another card, sell me satillite TV, or some other "CHOP$U*k thing."

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Mrs. Forgetful   2

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I have a cell and i answer when I feel like answering.

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I have two phone lines.

One has no phone on it and it's the one I give to people :-o

I don't like to speak on the phone, I just use it for my needs (buying things, booking flights, professional calls etc etc)

I "lost" lots of friends becaus they loooooove to talk on the phone way too much for me, i'm a loner I guess.

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