1. People who never ever leave a message This sort of person really gets on my goat. They ring over and over and the more they ring the more I am determined not to answer
2. People who phone at uncivil times without a good reason (good reason i.e. I will accept someone who is dying and has a few last words to impart but only if these last words are pithy) You should never ring before 9am or after 8.30pm. Everyone knows this
3. People who phone during dinner. Can’t they tell I’m eating?
4. People who phone when I’m on the toilet. Can’t they tell I’m in the middle of something?
5. People who don’t phone when I’m away. There’s nothing worse than getting back from a two week holiday to find no phone messages. This makes me feel unloved
6. People who phone while I’m cooking dinner. I say, ‘I’m cooking dinner’ and this seems to be the cue to launch into a two hour catch-up. I drop other hints like ‘The pasta is done and you know pasta waits for no one’ and ‘I can’t actually reheat this dinner if it goes cold because we don’t have a microwave due to the fact that it destroys antioxidants in your food and radiates you’ and ‘oh my god! The kitchen is actually on fire now’
7. People who don’t understand the meaning of ‘Well I’d better go now because one of my children is foraging around in the medicine cabinet’
8. Mobile phone users Especially ones on the Hutchison 3 network. No it’s not good to be 3, not when they put a phone tower on your neighbour’s roof, in a residential area
9. People who phone you on speaker phone You know who you are
10. People who phone me This is a general ‘other’ category
15 responses so far ↓
1 rocafuentes // May 8, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Should that be depise or DESPISE…..Beep…
2 squib // May 8, 2008 at 2:23 pm
um…huh?
3 squib // May 8, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Oh RIGHT! NOW I see
Thanks
4 rocafuentes // May 8, 2008 at 2:30 pm
too late - I’ve hung up.
Those iPhones are pretty cool mind
5 warthog // May 8, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I haven’t got any friends, so when the phone rings, I ignore it cos it wont be for me.
6 squib // May 8, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I think Wart needs a group hug
*group hug*
7 mum // May 8, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Does this mean you despise your own mother then?(I think I belong to most of those categories!)
8 squib // May 9, 2008 at 9:58 am
whoops (now I’m in trouble)
But hang on Mum, you don’t really like telephones either
Maybe it’s genetic?
9 Evie // May 9, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I’m with you mum. She is in big trouble.
10 timbuktu paradox (akin to confucious) // May 9, 2008 at 8:29 pm
TP says simple, cut off the phone then.
11 squib // May 10, 2008 at 10:17 am
Hey, hey I was just joking
People?
Um People?
12 Rob // May 10, 2008 at 1:35 pm
All valid gripes - but what about phone answerers, heh? Nothing worse than surly teenagers that grunt ‘who’s this?’ at you.
Oh, did you mean to ask ‘whom may I say is calling?’ but your brain snapped?
Honestly, they’re called manners people.
13 squib // May 10, 2008 at 3:40 pm
When it comes to teenagers Rob, I’d just be happy with a bedroom that hasn’t been condemned under the health act
14 BigSquib // May 17, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Squib, you really need to get used to the idea that this IS the 21st century. Honestly, if you think times are bad now, wait until next year. The government will probably make it compulsory for everyone to answer phones
15 squib // May 17, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Three words for you:
Clean Your Room
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