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I suppose that the consensus is that phones are disruptive annoyances albeit, at times needed interruptions that startle the BeJesu out of us! So I'm not so alone in this one I see
posted by
SEEDLINGS
on January 21, 2008 at 10:38 AM
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I am a phone-a-phobic.
I avoid the phone. I will answer if I feel it's non-threatening, but unknown called, out of area usually means telemarketers or bill collectors. I went to a Tori Amos concert and people are around me are checking their phones constantly, TMing someone...they are light beacons, very distracting and rude by my old-fashioned standards. They take me out of the mood of the concert that I paid good money for, as did they! I noticed at concerts, they hold up the light of the cell phone as opposed to lighters or before that matches. My how we had evolved! I use my cell phone to play BeJeweled while I wait in a doctors office or sit in the car waiting on Jay to do something in a store. They tell the time. Augh, they've got some use.
Cee 
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on January 21, 2008 at 4:59 AM
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posted by
Soul_Builder101
on January 20, 2008 at 6:28 PM
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I often startle in fright !
posted by
afzal50
on January 20, 2008 at 5:11 PM
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I am always worried that it's bad news
so when I look at the caller ID and realize it's just a friend or someone I have been trying to reach, I breathe a sigh of relief.
Sometimes the phone ringing is enough to make me jump.
posted by
Loribeth215
on January 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM
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i find all phones very annoying
and tend to keep my cell on silent and if i miss the call ill get back to that person asap but ringing phones are jus a nuisance to me and i would rather jus heard birds chirp or anything in nature
posted by
quietguy7
on January 20, 2008 at 11:53 AM
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we've just started using caller ID because both Wiley and I have been
harrassed since I've been here. We can hear the ring now but know when not to pick up. it's worth paying the extra for.
posted by
Kabu
on January 20, 2008 at 11:35 AM
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seedling
I have caller id and dont answer the phone unless its someone I know and no one ever calls me I know. Yes I do get startled if its in the middle of the night, and when my kids are out of town. I do work for the phone company and have a house line and would never be without, there are too many things that could go wrong if you just have a cell, I guess you are ok with that.
posted by
Lanetay
on January 20, 2008 at 10:36 AM
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I hear ya
I certainly don't get excited when I hear the phone ringing, for the reasons you stated, not to mention that nine times out of ten it's a telemarketer or a bill collector.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on January 20, 2008 at 10:20 AM
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I've watched the telephone evolve
When I was a child the only time you got an unexpected phone call, was for bad news. My mother would write her parents and tell them what day and at what time she would call.
From party line to private lines, an operator to a dial tone to push button to cordless, and from cell phones the size of a brief case to ones roughly the size of a credit card, still one thing has carried over to people who don't even know why they do it. If a phone rings, it must be answered immediatly.
First it was the Answering machine so I could hear who it was before I answered it, and now it's Caller ID. I look, but I don't answer.
posted by
Whysper
on January 20, 2008 at 9:44 AM
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