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[herzchen]

"I have never in my life owned a phone -- they are a bloody nuisance," he said. "You can be sitting peacefully indoors and they start ringing. I hate them." - a 100 y/o working Briton.

yesterday, i sorta agreed w/this guy. i felt icky in the evening & wasn't pleased when 2 different people called... just wanted to be left alone

Comments

[chiaroscuro25]

I feel free to never answer the phone if I don't want to. Phones are very rude devices really: if we realized that a ringing phone is equivalent to someone dropping by unannounced and demanding to speak with us, we'd see that.

[herzchen]

yeah, i feel pretty free not to answer the phone when i don't wanna as well. ESPECIALLY now when i have a landline and a CELL. i don't want to always be reachable...

HELP!

[anonymous]

Annas! Please check your email! I leave on Friday, I need you to respond where to meet! I need your real address and phone number!

-P.

[pale_blue_eyes]

I may have given you this quote before, but this is typically how the phone calls/friendships in my life work:
"Don't think for a minute that your friends will telephone you every evening, as they ought to, in order to find out if this doesn't happen to be the evening when you are deciding to commit suicide, or simply whether you don't need company, whether you are not in a mood to go out. No, don't worry, they'll ring up the evening you are not alone, when life is beautiful."
(there's more) --Albert Camus in The Fall