Re: do visiting children ever answer your phone?

"bizby40" <bizby40@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Banty" <Banty_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:de3h0h01849@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> If a *close friend* offered, I woudln't be offended. (close friends are
>> about
>> blending boundaries to share life and companionship more, that's what
>> they'er
>> about). If, say, a *neighbor* offered, I'd think it weird.
>
>You know, I didn't think about it until you put it this way, but I might
>too.
>I wouldn't be offended if they offered, but I'd almost certainly decline
>unless it was at least a friend. For example, it might be just as helpful
>if the air conditioner repairman offered to answer the phone, but I'd
>think that was strange.
>
The air conditioner repairman or other workmen might be expecting his
office or dispatcher to call. They usually will say - I'm expecting a
call, or That may be for me. And sometimes they will say May I use
your phone. I wouldn't think that strange at all.

I think it may also depends on what kinds of calls you expect to get.
I do not talk on the phone much except to transact business. I'm
calling to order some product from a catalog or to find out the hours
of a business or something like that.

Except for my immediate family (children, grandchildren, mother,
sisters and brothers), I don't have people visiting my house (no close
neighbors within walking distance), and I don't get calls except from
family and a VERY few friends. One friend of dhs calls about every
month, and a friend of mine calls occasionally. And since I'm doing
Freecycling now, sometimes those people call to get directions or
arrange pick-up. I conduct most business and have most interpersonal
interaction by computer nowadays.

So there's no private business being transacted on the phone that it
would concern me if anyone heard it. About the only calls I get other
than family are an occasional request for a donation from a charity
telemarketer.

When I was working and living in the city, I might talk to the
neighbors out in the yard, but I'd almost never phoned them, and they
didn't come into my house, nor did I generally go into their houses.
My conversations on the phone for work, were - well - work. Not
really private.

I wonder whether the increasing use of cell phones, where the
conversations are sometimes not exactly private have changed people's
perception about what is appropriate, in the same way that switching
from the telephone operator switchboard and party lines gradually
changed the way we felt about landlines. With a switchboard and party
line, you always knew that someone might be listening.

My children get very annoyed with me because I do not leave my cell
phone on all the time. My granddaughter has set up in an apartment
(she's graduated college and is working), and she doesn't even have a
landline phone. She gets her internet via cable with TV, and only has
a cell phone. A cell phone is often right on your person, not across
the room. So answering the phone for another person doesn't come up.



grandma Rosalie
.

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