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Decompressing from the idea of making a call
Even for family members?
Relatable
Especially for family members
Are you my cousin?
In which case, bury your dad already, Gunther. It's been 5 years.
Ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck.
My sister the trump supporter is calling. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Oh, it went to voicemail. Luckily I keep my voicemail full.
Calling someone else.
If I indulged my terrible impulses, I'd probably be laughing to myself and saying "Yeah, how do you like it?"
If somebody doesn't leave a message why would I call them back?
Alternately why bother leaving a message when they just ask you why you called when they do call back?
Then again I'm old enough to have had to use a rotary phone so that could be a factor in my personal experience
If you're like me and old enough to have used one of those phones then I don't understand your perspective at all. I didn't know who called me if I missed a call back then. So I couldn't return it. Answering machines didn't come till much later. And then again if they didn't leave a message I wouldn't know so therefore wouldn't return the call.
If someone calls me and doesn't leave a message, or then doesn't send a text, I assume they didn't mean to call or that it wasn't that important and I just let it go. Not worth my time.
If I called, it was an emergency, and I can't answer the phone because I'm elbow-deep in emergency.
You only call people in an emergency? How do you communicate with people outside of shouting range for less important topics?
I don’t answer calls.
Butt dialing with a silenced phone?
Depends on the person, an ass could pass for face id.
You've never seen someone put their phone in their pocket or purse, without turning off the screen first?
I've seen lots of people do that. A couple times I pointed out why it's not a good idea. But people who do it, just don't seem to care. My mother has done this exact thing to me several times. She calls me back later, when she sees that I called her, wondering what I wanted.
Ignoring my phone because I prefer to text anyway, so you not answering was a massive relief to me. Chances are if you text instead I'll respond, or can leave a voice mail, but honestly if I didn't leave a message or send a text about it, it wasn't important enough/mission critical in the first place so don't worry about it
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