Phone rings at the middle of night .. How do you react ?

My husband is a Platoon Sgt. in the army and I have no choice but to answer the phone because it could be a soldier or one of his commanders. The other night at 5:15 in the morning, we were woken by one such call. He had to leave and didn't get back home until almost 11 in the morning. I woke up too when the phone rang and I couldn't get back to sleep. But most of all I live far away from my parents and I want to answer just in case it is an emergency. If it is a frivolous call for no reason, I would get mad and tell them to call back at a decent time.

This happens to me all the time as I often have people call me and say they are not coming to work that day. Unfortunately, after this happens I have a really hard time getting back to sleep.

I am too scared that it will be an emergency phone call, why else would someone call in the middle of the night when most peoiple are sleeping? So I get up and out of bed to answer it with a racing heart. When I find it is just a drunk dummy with the 2 am dials that can't hit the buttons, I get irratated.

Though I felt bad due to wake up by the phone, I would pick it up and respond it. Because I know my family well, no one would phone me at such time unless it was an emergency. I would be at ease if I didn't know what had happened.

I will answer it. I am always afraid if someone is calling me in the middle of the night that something terrible has happened to someone in my family.

I used to get late-night phone calls in my previous house, and in almost all instances it would be silence coming from the other end. I think whoever it was just wanted to disrupt my sleep. Thankfully the bugger would call before 2am, which is when I usually sleep.

If the hpone rang in the middle of the night it's unlikely we'd even hear it. We shut the door to the living room to keep the cat in, and also close (but not shut properly) the door to the bedroom. it's hard to hear even when we are awake, let alone alseep! I don'tt hink i'd answer it as by the time i got downstrairs it would no doubt have stopped ringing. If it then rang again i'd try and make it down as i'd figure it was urgent. It had better be, as i'd be furious if it wasn't!

My first reaction...i will say "wth". It will be very scary to hear phone ring in the middle of the night. It depends who call. If it's my friends i will answer it no matter how tire i am. If it's some unknown number i will just ignore and continue sleep.