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In reply to the discussion: "Wait, wait. Hold it for a minute. I have to answer this." [View all]Shell_Seas
(3,333 posts)62. Most people text, now a days.
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Yes, if your mother is in the hospital, and your sister calls from the emergency room with an update
jberryhill
Feb 2019
#2
When I enter an exam room, if the patient is on the phone, I'll give him or her a few seconds.
Aristus
Feb 2019
#8
I had a patient once who wouldn't stop texting while I was trying to get the history
Aristus
Feb 2019
#17
Before answering machines were common, nobody would simply let the phone ring
jberryhill
Feb 2019
#20
Right. But many are still behaving as if our phones don't have the ability to take messages,
pnwmom
Feb 2019
#25
But that is less than 1% of the time for me. I think the OP is complaining about people
pnwmom
Feb 2019
#43
Well, these days, 80% of calls on our landline are telemarketers. Caller ID lets me
MineralMan
Feb 2019
#41
I have a flip phone. It fits in my shirt pocket. Only my wife knows the number.
MineralMan
Feb 2019
#82
Ha! I never answer the phone. That's what voicemail is for. If it's important...
PeeJ52
Feb 2019
#22
Please, if you are volunteering at a site with your children...please don't answer your....
Tikki
Feb 2019
#50
School/my teens is the exception for me. With the kids, I start with, is this urgent. If it isn't,
iluvtennis
Feb 2019
#57
What if it's your kids school? Or your expecting a relative to land on a plane?
Shell_Seas
Feb 2019
#60
Whenever I was on the phone with a friend & they put me on hold to take another call,
Demit
Feb 2019
#63
This is kind of a tangent, but I irks me no end when this happens at a checkout
hopeforchange2008
Feb 2019
#68
In the good old days, when a wire ran from the telephone to the wall,
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Feb 2019
#75