Thread: Telephone!

If it rings one more time tonight, I'm gonna flush it down the toilet.

Highschool finals are this week and the kids get home about noon. Today I swear it has rang non stop....the moment the kids are off the phone it rings instantaniously.

It is all bull too.

I have been bumped off the net 5 times in the last hour and...you know.

I'm also thinking that "Mike Brady" was right in his hokey wisdom.

My house needs a payphone for the teenieboppers to use. And I think the kids calling should be charged too.

Gimme a Break!

geez

I think we are all just way too connected to others. I took a nap today because I wasn't feeling well, and if the house phone wasn't ringing, the cell phone was. When I got up I had voice mail messages on both house and cell, IM's on yahoo and text messages. The thing that got me was, the same person tried to contact me in all of those ways, within 5 minutes of each other. And I'm thinking, well, if I had actually wanted to talk to you, then I would have responded the first time you called or messaged.

Originally Posted by IthinkNOT!

I think we are all just way too connected to others. I took a nap today because I wasn't feeling well, and if the house phone wasn't ringing, the cell phone was. When I got up I had voice mail messages on both house and cell, IM's on yahoo and text messages. The thing that got me was, the same person tried to contact me in all of those ways, within 5 minutes of each other. And I'm thinking, well, if I had actually wanted to talk to you, then I would have responded the first time you called or messaged.

ITA

Don't give a darn if the phone is connected to the sewer system at this point.
If the darn answering machine answers after 4 rilngs...WE'RE NOT HOME!
If the phone keeps ringing after 4 rings...WE'RE NOT HOME!

Originally Posted by Jenefer3

Turn the ringer off or unplug it or limit phone time like someone else said.

Last time I did the idiots came to the house within 10 minutes and kept arriving and arriving and arriving.

Then when I told them to leave they all looked at me like I was nuts until I threatened to call the cops.

Originally Posted by Jenefer3

Well if you don't answer it but listen to it ring, then they'd just show up too wouldn't they? At least that way you won't have to listen to the sound of it.

Whatever.

Place simple, easy to follow rules about the phone.
Something like:
1. 2 calls in, 2 calls out a day per child... and no more than a total of 90 minutes per child on the phone a day.
2. No calls accepted during homework, unless it is homework related, and I get to listen in (you really do not have to, but the option is there).. and these calls must be less than 5 minutes long.
3. No calls after 8:30 pm, or before 9:00 am unless they need someone to identify the body at the morgue.
__________________________________________________ ____
If someone shows up, unannounced: answer the door in your underwear (or your spouses underwear??).

Place curfews on the children for friends over, and require a certain amount of notice: like, no visitors unless I get asked (AND GIVE PERMISSION) 90 minutes prior to the visit: again unless it is a cop needed a body identification.

And stick to them

Or, invest in a teen phone for the house: but the fights will be horrendous!!!