I always thought it was girls who were worse about tying up the telephone.  |
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 When I was a girl, my parents were constantly bothering me about how long I stayed on the phone with my friends. It was probably not uncommon for me to tie up the line for an hour or more at a time.
My stepson who is now 19 uses the phone and the internet at the SAME time. He will be chatting with people online and then they get on the phone and talk at the same time they are playing an online game. He will also play games with his friends over the phone such as Truth or Dare and 20 Questions. He is often on the phone over an hour at a time, long distance, as well as online.
Now, we have high speed so we don't tie up the phone when we are online, but what is the sense of using BOTH?
Then there is my son, who is 16. He will spend all day with his girlfriend at her house and then come home and get on the phone at about 11 or 12 midnight. They will talk on the phone till 3 AM, often drifting off to sleep so they have to wake each other up if they want to keep talking. This happens about twice a week at my house and who knows how often at his father's house.
What is it with the telephone? I always thought girls and women were blabbier than men, but obviously this shows a new trend in my home! Personally I hate the telephone since I worked as a telemarketer. I don't like to call if I can help it and I hate to answer the phone, even if it's someone I want to talk to. I just hate the phone.
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1.  greenglitterturtle (1380) | 3 months ago |  i am female and used to think woman were gabby and guys said just a few words. then i worked with a guy who was quite a yacker, and one of my nephews grew up and he would talk on the phone for hours. and so did another nephew. it blew me away.
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 kbkbooks (2217) | 3 months ago | What used to REALLY blow me away was that my ex husband could talk for hours with his brothers (4 men talking together in the same room) for absolutely hours at a time. The weird thing was that it seemed to me that every time they got together they talked about the same thing over and over. Worse than that, I never knew when the conversation would end so we could go home, which was an hour or more drive away depending on which brother's house we were at. I had two small children to get into bed and needed rest myself to keep up with them, yet these guys could not seem to understand that, and they just wouldn't shut up!! | |
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| greenglitterturtle (1380) | 3 months ago | LOL that is hilarious but i also feel sorry for you. you have to live with it. my one nephew also walks when he talks so he's walking back and forth in the living room. and sometimes walks around the house but i can hear him inside my bedroom because of his loud voice. my other nephew can talk up all my minutes when he calls and talks for hours day after day. Then my sister has witnessed her husband and his brother would get into a friendly rough play sort of fighting and tumbling knocking things around and breaking things like little kids. she thot her young boys weould out grow that but then their dad and uncle were doing it. she lost all hope. | |
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| kbkbooks (2217) | 3 months ago | OMG, my husband does this. He will get the wireless handset and walk all over the house while he is talking, usually back and forth from one end of the house to the other. It's SUPER annoying and he does it often. The funniest thing about my husband and the corded phone is that he has this NEED to untangle the line, the curly wire that connects the handset... it's not allowed to have kinks in it ever, if you follow his actions when he gets anywhere near any corded phone, even if it is someone else's home! | |
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| greenglitterturtle (1380) | 3 months ago | yackers and pacers. what a deal. we're surrounded.:D | |
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| 2. danishcanadian (14537) | 3 months ago |  The only reason why my phone-hating husband even has a phone is becaue I am in Canada and he is in the USA, and it's the only way we can communicae, that's half way stable. Aside from that, we both agree that our telephones can go to h3ll. LOL
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| kbkbooks (2217) | 3 months ago | It's true that the voice functions on computer still haven't been perfected, and it's really a shame. I still think often, though, of the money my ex husband and I could have saved in our engagement in the mid 80s when we talked on the phone EVERY day for about an hour or two... three hundred and fifty miles apart. That was before 10 cents a minute long distance and before computer chat. We could have save sooooo much money with email, chat, and low cost long distance. | |
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| kbkbooks (2217) | 3 months ago | We can't see expressions when we use online chat, but we seem to think emoticons take the place of that. Weird. Of course, now there is video chat, and web cams and picture phones, which I suppose is a step in the direction of the Jetsons. I would much rather talk in person though, I agree with you. | |
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