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Originally Posted by maleficent
Actually, you can make quite a game out of it..I was bored one night on the train from DC to NY and decided to have some fun to amuse myself. (the car I was in had a lot of self-important pretentious windbags (I am most certainly not one, I am much to evil for that0...
Every 10 minutes or so, I would test a ring tone on my phone... and watch how many people grabbed for their phones, naturally assuming that any phone ringing was their phone... Doesn't matter that one time it was the Nokia ring, and the next time it was Take Me out to the Ballgame.. Every time I'd hit the ringer button, no less than 12 people grabbed for their phones.. Pavlov's dog anyone?
It kept me amused for a good 45 minutes, then I got bored of my toys...
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This reminds me of a discussion we had with some of Grace's friends once. They were over for dinner, and the phone (home phone) rang. We ignored it and just let the voicemail pick it up. They were apalled. How can you just let you phone ring and not answer it? Well, like that, we explained. The fact that the phone is ringing creates no obligation on my part to answer it. If we're having dinner, or watching a dvd, or playing an online game, or doing anything else that takes precedence over a random phone conversation, we just don't answer the phone, and return the calls of those people we wish to speak to at our convenience.
We don't even have a phone in our bedroom because we don't like being disturbed while sleeping or making love. The only exception is if Grace is on call, she'll keep her pager or cell phone in there, but that's usually not a concern. I'm constantly a little surprised that people don't realize that you can just let the phone ring and not answer it.