OT: How to you get off the phone?

# 1 MACK_MAMA
on 2/17/09 8:27 pm
Just curious - cause I am one of those who can't end the conversation - the OTHER person has to agree to 'let me go'....... I can never say 'BYE'! and hang up...........

It's usually the other person that says 'Well - I gotta go' or 'I'll talk to you later' or 'It was great talking to you' or something like that.  On the job it's easy cause I ask 'Is there anything else you needed?'

So how do YOU get off the phone?  I know some of yall have to be the controllers in the convo - so you bounce when YOU get ready.....

With my mom - she seems to try to 'beat' me off the phone - If I start to say *I* gotta go - she gotta go quicker.... LOL

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(deactivated member)
on 2/17/09 8:41 pm - NJ
I don't really have that problem.  I don't like to talk on the phone and everyone in my life knows that.  If they call me for anything, I know it's important... they say what they need to say... and call it a day.  Some of my friends - who like to sit & gab for hours - REALLY don't like that about me.  But, it's just me.

My sister, on the other hand, she doesn't give a damn about my feelings and will run on at the mouth as long as I let her.  With her, I *have* to say "Okay, is there anything else?"  That usually does the trick.
# 1 MACK_MAMA
on 2/17/09 8:53 pm
Hmmm - might hafta try that one - except with my mama - you ask HER if there's anything else - you could end up listening to a diatribe on the Civil Rights movement and its reverse impact on the black neighborhood - be sitting there wondering 'how d **** I end up in THIS conversation?'


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MyQnA
on 2/17/09 8:49 pm
Happy Morning,

See this is something I have been told I need to work on.  A dear friend from church actually called me back to say she was gonna pray for me because I need to stop hanging up on her.  Apparently she had soemthing else to say???   I dont know.   My husband feels the same way.  But he just be talking to hear his own voice in Engli****hink. 

I end 99% of all conversations with "Peace" and hang up.  i think by now they ought to know if you ain't said what you was gonna say then you out of luck once I say peace you will hear dial tone.

~Maxine


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# 1 MACK_MAMA
on 2/17/09 8:52 pm
  OMG - you made me laugh so hard out my nose on that one..... LMAOOOO!!!!!!!

You are off tha chain!!!!!  That's hardcore right there - can't do nothing but RESPECT that!!!!!


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Mrs_Desire _
on 2/17/09 8:58 pm - Houston, TX
VSG on 11/18/13
Well my most common line is this "....weeelll I am going to let you go. I don't want to hold you up." Sometimes it back fires on me and the person will say "...oh you NOT holding me up. I was not doing anything."

But within the family we all have the same "BYE" signal which is....
"Well alright."

BKA I got what I needed from you so get OFF the phone.
You could be in mid sentence and the other person will say "Well alright!"   Conversation is over immediately.


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MyQnA
on 2/17/09 9:11 pm
I like that...I might have to see if it works on unsuspecting people (sisters, cousins, neighbors etc)

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Faith *
on 2/17/09 8:58 pm, edited 2/17/09 9:32 pm
I will just say "I gotta go and I will talk with you later" if I want off the phone.  I do enjoy talking on the phone but I do have my limits.  I really try hard to listen for clues from the other person if I suspect they need to go. 

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Birdman D.
on 2/17/09 9:29 pm - Nappytown
Most people I talk to on the phone...know I don't really "like" talking on the phone...LOL.  They know that when I start giving my "clues" that I've got to go...they generally are aware that I'm about to roll...

Those that don't get my hints???  I don't have a problems saying, "Bye"...and hanging up......
Lifebeauty
on 2/17/09 9:58 pm
My friends tell me that I have the phone hung up before the bye is out of my mouth. 
My usual line is just like most, gotta go, talk to you later all while I'm hanging up the phone. 
I really prefer face to face.

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