The phone rings, and it's ___, you cringe and hate the thought of picking it up?

Ex-wife, or mother.

A bill collector?

Mother. who currently wont stop texting me….

Mine is “800 service”.

Although I am on the “no call” list, that doesn’t stop charitable organizations, political campaigns, or companies I have an “established relationship” with from ringing my phone off the wall asking for donations, pushing a candidate, or telling me of their great new product.

I think that it should be legal to track down telephone solicitors and beat them with a baseball bat until they quit interrupting the precious few moments one has to spend at home with the family.

@uberbatman Once they learn how, it’s all downhill from there. My mom sends those 8 page texts riddled with emoticons.

@Blackberry seriously. I thought it was bad enough getting chain mail in my email from her now i get it on my phone too. And my 78 year old grammy just learned to text too. Though I dont mind getting texts from her since she doesnt know how to work t9 yet so its always a funny riddle to figure out what she was trying to say :P

Yet another telemarketer!!!! I am on a do not call list yet they still keep calling UGGGGGG!!!

Oh, dear, there’s a list, even within the parameters of your details… <sigh>

Larry King. Ever since he left CNN he won’t leave me alone. I wish they would hire him back.

My parents, mostly my dad.

An old classmate who calls collect when he is not in jail and is soused.

My girlfriend’s father. Especially when my honey and I are getting it on.
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

Why are you so anxiety to talk to your brother?

Planned Parenthood

former sister-in-law. Even my husband who was a pretty good verbal dancer cringed when he had to talk with her. Some people are just squirrly and contentious. And of course the fountain of all knowledge just like the TrashHeap on Fraggle Rock, (but not as full figured)!

I usually am the ones that annoys the others. So it’s me.

Interestingly, it is one of my best friends. He is a hoot on the golf course, or at a cookout or a card game. A trusted ally and confidant.
But he only calls on the telephone to have the opportunity to give speeches and seminars on moral corruption, the hazards of a controlled economy, the evils of regulation etc. and etc.
There is something about the telephone that triggers this impulse. And it goes on forever-hours if I let it.
And I can only eventually say something like “Hey, I have to go visit somebody in the hospital” or something like that in order to get off the phone.

My mother

Work.

My father’s wife. I’m just not going to go there.

My dumb tenant.

@Hibernate I think I am like you too…

Anyone I’m not familiar with.

My sister. She is one of those people you cannot get off from the phone. My husband is good at abruptly ending the call. I am not. Even if a real emergency strikes, she’d rather remain on the line with me. Oh dear!

UGH! And what is with being on the Do Not Call Registry and still getting several calls per week?!

My real dad. Creeptastic old fart.

Grandmothers, all 3 of them.

Ex-husband

Best thing to do is get an answerphone and monitor the calls. Only answer if it’s someone you want to talk to.

yeah, @pezz? Then she’ll just come unannounced to my house :(

@Londongirl keep up the good work ^^

When my sister calls I’m always afraid it is bad news, she calls very rarely.

When the call is from a relative in San Diego, it is very scary, my Mother In Law is in very poor health and in the process of moving into an assisted living apartment. We are going there to help her on moving day, next month.

Grass cutter. He was cutting my grass two days ago and his helper cut his big toe off with the lawnmower he was using. He was taken to the ER, but the news was not good. I could smell a lawsuit coming through the phone lines.

@john65pennington Have you phoned up your insurance agent? UGH!

The Nephew from Hell. And that’s just what we call him…THE NEPHEW FROM HELL. Always full of doom and gloom, always looking for a handout, and everybody don did him wrong. I’m glad he doesn’t call often.:-}

My ex-husband. It’s to the point where when the phone rings I know if it’s him or not. My kids find it funny I always know it’s him without answering the phone.

My alumni association begging for money, even though I’ve told them hundreds of times that I have certain charities in which I donate to, and never when I’m solicited on the phone.

But they keep calling, making me madder and less inclined to give them money.

My oldest sons father… He never has anything nice to say!

the reason my voice mail isn’t set up… no obligation to call back. works for me.

Jinx! My sister called tonight in need of my Internet search/shopping expertise for discontinued make up…25mins later I was finally having dinner

I like hearing from my friends, and I only have one family member I keep in contact with, my grandma.
But back in the day, it would have been my mom. She’d call me while drunk as shit, and tell me all this weird nonsense about how nobody where we were spoke French, and begged for me not to murder her. What the hell haha. She’d leave like twenty minute long messages on my dad’s answering machine, telling us to pick up and saying and wailing a buncha shit I couldn’t understand.

Mr. Peanut

he knows why.

Don’t matter.. I detest answering any bell or ring tone.. I leave that for the stressers.. I’ll let it ring all day if no one answers it.