Who used to do this? / myLot

Philippines

March 8, 2026 7:13am CST

I did when I didn't want to receive any phone calls. There was this guy I went on a blind date once and I really didn't like him at all. He called me the following day and it was my sister who answered the phone. I told my sister to tell him I wasn't home. He didn't get the sign and still kept on calling so I just did exactly what you can see in the photo.

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Jeff Moffitt

@moffittjc (129194)

• Gainesville, Florida

8 Mar

That's funny! I've done that in the past as well, but the only problem was that when you did that, NO ONE else could call the house. My parents would get so mad whenever I took the receiver off the cradle.

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DianneN

@DianneN (254324)

• United States

8 Mar

So true!

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Toni

@toniganzon (82859)

• Philippines

8 Mar

Had no parents no get mad at us and I know exactly the time when eh guy would call as he was a student as well at that time.

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DianneN

@DianneN (254324)

• United States

8 Mar

Back in the day if I left my phone off the hook, it would beep like crazy. I never went on a blind date.

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Toni

@toniganzon (82859)

• Philippines

8 Mar

That was the one and only time I went on a blind date.

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DianneN

@DianneN (254324)

• United States

9 Mar

@toniganzon I don’t blame you

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Amber

@AmbiePam (133221)

• United States

8 Mar

Oh, I’m sure I did that a time or two. Sometimes you just had to!

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Toni

@toniganzon (82859)

• Philippines

8 Mar

OH yes! Sometimes we must.

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (75488)

• United States

9 Mar

I couldn’t stand the noise to do this so what I would do is unplug it from the wall.

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Toni

@toniganzon (82859)

• Philippines

9 Mar

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (391530)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Mar

That certainly stops people contacting you! It's harder I think with social media to block someone. Maybe it isn't. I don't use social media much at all.

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Toni

@toniganzon (82859)

• Philippines

9 Mar

My soc meds are in private so people who aren't my friends couldn't see them. My business pages are in public. Only those. I don't easily accept people in my social media circle. Only those I personally know. And I hardly post private things anyway. It's easy to block people in the social media. Too easy.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (223028)

• United States

9 Mar

I remember the old rotary dial phones and party lines.

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Toni

@toniganzon (82859)

• Philippines

10 Mar

oh yes the party lines. Back when I was in high school we had. party line and when there's an emergency, we had to beg the person on the other line to please hang up the phone so we could make our phone call. "hello, party line..." was a famous line back then.

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Toni

@toniganzon (82859)

• Philippines

10 Mar

@LindaOHio Oh there's an operator who intervenes. In our case, no operator. Just the person who shares the same line.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (223028)

• United States

10 Mar

@toniganzon I remember the operator coming on line and asking us to hang up.