Do you have a habit of not answering your phone?
By Ajmal
@aju007 (1460)
Thiruvananthapuram, India
January 27, 2016 7:31am CST
One of my friends does. And I hate it when he do that. Sometimes when I call him for some urgent matters he doesn't answer me at the first time and I had to try again and again to get him on the phone!
Initially I thought that he may be busy with something else. But that's not the matter because I came to know that when I was with him once in my college. He got his phone ring and saw that it was his sister.
He didn't answer it and just put it inside his pocket after silencing it! I asked him why and he answered that if it was something important she would call him again!
A similar incident happened again when he was with me at another occasion and one of his friend called him and he didn't answer it either! So it's not the only case. I just couldn't accept his logic.
While I say this I should tell him that he is a good person otherwise and I like him very much but can't understand why he do this!
What do you think? Do you have any habit like this?
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19 responses
@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
27 Jan 16
I answer calls, I don't always respond to texts though especially if its just normal chat
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
27 Jan 16
I can't understand why he would do that, especially on a mobile phone. I went out to clear the snow the other day and that is when 2 people called my mobile (which was sitting inside on my desk) I called them right back when I returned though.
My son had a weird habit with mobile phones he would call us, say something quickly, say bye, without a care that we had something to say to him, then turn the phone off and I mean OFF, blank screen, phone not working kind of off. Thank goodness he has learned that people may wish to contact him nowadays.
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@aju007 (1460)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
27 Jan 16
Yeah me too, that's really an odd thing to do that. I have seen people do missed calls instead of calls to save money. But his case something really rare.
And glad to know that your son doesn't do that now. It will really be a woody for the parents when they can't reach their kids, right? My mother always tell me to call home if you are going to be late kind of things.
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@Marilynda1225 (82789)
• United States
27 Jan 16
Does your friend have voice mail on his phone so he can listen to a message to see if the call was important?
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@aju007 (1460)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
27 Jan 16
The voice mail thing is not much famous among here. But yeah one can send voice mail by prefixing a number but people rarely use it here. And the call is not automatically switched to voice mail if the user is unreachable.
So probably he won't know the matter until the caller take an effort to try again.
@youless (112507)
• Guangzhou, China
28 Jan 16
I will answer any phone calls. Even if the phone numbers are unknown, but I still will pick up my phone. If they are scams, then I will just hang up. I don't want to miss an important call. Anyway, picking up a phone call will not charge me anything.
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@youless (112507)
• Guangzhou, China
28 Jan 16
@aju007 My father will not answer any unknown phone calls as he thinks all of them are scams. And in fact sometimes he doesn't answer mine. He doesn't hear it or he seldom check his phone calls. This is so annoying as sometimes I have important things to talk to him.
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@snowy22315 (180882)
• United States
31 Jan 16
my son does that...It is the little "you're not that important to me drama" I dont always answer mine if I dont reconginze the number or if I just sat down..if it is important the will leave a message.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
29 Jan 16
Maybe he isn't the type of person who enjoys talking on the phone? How about texting him? Now that I have unlimited text messaging ~ I prefer people to text me rather than call. Sometimes I don't feel in the mood to talk so I don't pick up. If it's important the person will call back or leave a voice message. Or, I know the person talks for a long time and I am busy, I will call the person back afterwards.
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@aju007 (1460)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
29 Jan 16
@infatuatedbby Call charges are much less compared to texts. I can call about four.minutes for the money I spent on a single text.
Yeah I get him after a two or three tries, as he may think it is 'urgent'
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
29 Jan 16
@aju007 Oh I see! Does calling charge when he picks up the phone? I hope you were able to contact him though!
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (14351)
• West Haven, Connecticut
27 Jan 16
I answer calls unless im eating or driving then Il just call the person back when im less occupied
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
22 Feb 16
@aju007 I have only done this a few times because I've been mad at the person. But otherwise, I always answer my phone.
My dad does this a lot and it seriously annoys me! He will never answer his phone if it shows an unknown number. So sometimes if I have ran out of credit so I use a friends phone or I call from a pay phone, he wont answer and it annoys me because I really need to speak to him.
One of my "friends" does this too. I've been with her a lot and she ignores another friends phone call when she really needed her. Very selfish girl.
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@viewfinder (31)
• Bhopal, India
27 Jan 16
hiee @aju007, sometimes i also didn't answer the phone. But only I am busy or know that the person call's is not important.. May be your friend also thinks like that...
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
1 Feb 16
We have caller ID on our main phone , that way we do not answer numbers that look like they are trying to sell us something.
