i remember when i was first introduced to call waiting. it was was in college when i shared a phone with my roommate in the days of yore before cell phones. call waiting could have been around for a long time before i was in college. i do not know. call waiting is just one of those frills that my parents never had and still dont have. i would say that they dont know what it is , but because i have it and so does my sister and my brother who is married probably has it, i know that they have heard of it.
in truth, we managed with 7 people not to have call waiting. we survived. im not sure how . but we did. after sharing a college phone with a not so talkative roommate and even with just my not so- phone loving self, i still am not sure how we managed. but we did. sometimes when i call my parents there is a busy signal. this of course is unusual this day in age. not only can we contact people when they are anywhere we can also always get through to them or at least get through to their voicemail and leave a message. i think that when someones friend or family does not have call waiting we strengthen the midah of patience. in new york this trait can be in short supply. not a bad idea to work on it. i of course have no choice but to work on it. my parents have just 2 in their household these days because all of my siblings and i live on our own now. if they didnt have call waiting when i was growing up why start now? on the flip side i have to be grateful that they do have an answering machine!
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with call waiting and similiar technology its no wonder our generation all seem to have anxiety disorders or ADD. we never learned to have patience.
ahh such memories.
Back before they had caller ID, I had this friend whose family never picked up their phone! Every time you called you would have to leave a message, then while you say who you are, they would pick up, that was their way of screening people.
We used to have this forwarding system where if someone called the house phone and no one was home, it would forward to my fathers cell phone then my mothers and then mine. Lots of people got impatient with the whole thing and just wanted to leave a message. We switched phone services and now have just voice mail.
Back to the call waiting part. Whenever I'm on the phone and someone calls me in the middle I check to see who they are, if it's someone important I'll pick up and then tell them I'll call them back, I never like making people wait. Same with IM's too, I always try to answer people's IM's right away, so they shouldn't have to wait. Which is why I like messages and e-mail better, cause then you can get back to them on your time while they don't expect you to reply real time.
yes, i remember the days of not answering the phone to screen calls. i had a friend who thought i had caller id so she would call and not leave a message thinking i had caller id and was avoiding her calls. i just didnt want to speak to anyone so i didnt answer the phone.i didnt get caller id until more recently.
babysitter- i agree with you. i like email best.
cool, I didn't know anyone else screened calls like that too. I guess you have to tell your friend beforehand that it works that way, so they know to leave a message. I remember every time I would call I would say the same thing, I could of made a recording of it so I shouldn't have to repeat it 100 times.
Thanks for agreeing!
I still have no caller id, call forwarding or anything other than basic service on my land line and screen calls same way.
Anyone important has my cell number. And lord have mercy on anyone who calls me after 9 on my regular phone.
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