Someone who calls you every day

Does anyone have the challenges that I have with a close family member that insists on calling you every single day. Not only does this person call me every single day but at the most inopportune times. Like when I am at work on a conference call, or in class, or asleep. And if they call and don't get you, they began redialing your number incessantly until you answer the phone? It is difficult because I am not a phone person anyways. Secondly I am not the most patient guy on God's Green Earth. So by the time I finally do answer the call I am frustrated and the conversation goes to heck in a hand basket so to speak. If you have some advice or input here, don't call me, just leave the message in a reply. Ron

I have a niece that calls me.. does not leave a message but instead keeps hanging up and calling back. This does not make me come home.. lol So I talked to her and told her that she cant keep calling and hanging up.. she should call once, if I dont answer, leave a message and I would get back to her. She got better. Just tell the person that you work from XX time in the morning to XX time in the evening. You are unable to answer your phone at the the drop of a hat.. so leave a message. Lay down the law! Just because it is family, doesnt mean they can call anytime they want.

my mom calls me frequently & anyone who knows me well, knows I'm a screener. I constantly have to remind her that if I dont answer the call, or call her back immediately its nothing personal...I just hate the phone...mostly cause I'm on the phone all day at work. she still gets mad. but what can ya do.... course she doesnt call EVERY day. and she also ingrained in my head that: between 8-9 is borderline for calling 9-10 is really pushing it. after 10 better be an emergency. my rule: dont call me before 12-8 am for sure unless someone is dying. or a booty call, to which he comes to me.

How did you know? I love her to pieces but the person that must have a daily conversation is my Mom. She is pretty gullible and you would think she would know that her son loves to pull pranks. One night she started that repetitive calling pattern where she would call and I wouldn't answer time and time again. So what I did was every time she called I would hit the answer button and then the dis-connect button to kill the call. Well I did that for about 10 times and then finally answered the phone. Well when I answered the phone, she said what in the world is happening. I keep calling you and getting dis-connected. I told her there wasn't anything wrong but that I had bought a new cell phone with a new feature. She said, a new feature? I said, yeah, a "shut down" mode that "shuts down" the phone when you don't feel like talking. She said, I never heard of a cell phone like that. Well we went on and had our conversation. A few minutes later after our conversation the phone rings and it is my Sis. She tells me that Mom has called her and is worried about my new cell phone with the "shut down" mode. I kid you not. She is getting a little bit better. I can remember when she would call me 5, 6 or 7 times daily. Ron

I am going to tell a story.. poppa has already heard it so I don't think I will offend him again.. by sharing it. alot of times.. Dan would call me and talk.. he would talk and talk and I would get inpatient cuz it was detail stuff about something that just didn't interest me. Like.. I'm driving this many miles.. making this much per hour.. driving a truck so this much more.. and I worked so many hours so get this too.. divided my this many hours.. .. *eyes glazed over* finally I kinda said .. "i don't care.. " and he took it as I don't care about anything going on in his life.. *deep breath* well.. I do care about things in your life.. but just not the tiny details of miles per pay broken down each mile.. etc.. just like I doubt if you would care to much about all my shoes and the heels on each shoe.. and so forth.. soooo one day.. he called and the conversation started to veer in the same pattern.. and I just smiled real big to myself. cuz it dawned on me that I use to complain about how my old boyfriend would NOT talk to me. We would be in a bar.. he would come in and talk to the person on his one side and I would stare at the back of his head. SO.. I then realized that I'm just grateful that Dan wants to talk to me.. sometimes I bite my tongue.. and other days.. I might act impatient.. but we both know.. and are working on our idioscrencies(sp) *if I used that correctly*

Now Catherine Ann can call me 100 times a day and that isn't enough because we both have busy schedules and our cell phones are the only way we can stay in touch. I don't think I would have an issue except for I have requested time and time again to please respect that I am a busy person with times in the day where I cannot talk. Now what I have learned to do is put my phone on silent and as Kellee does screen the calls but then I feel bad. I think most things in life are OK as long as they are done in moderation. It gets to the point that sometimes I feel like I am being stalked. In fact if she can't get a hold of me, she starts calling other family members to see if they have talked to me. My poor Sis will get on the phone and ask me to answer the phone so her phone will quit ringing.

it sounds like mom is getting up there in years and is lonely.. why isn't that new husband of hers keeping her *BUSY*

Now that is what I said. You just get married and your poor husband gets put to the side for a phone call to me. This is sad...way too sad! I do have Cathy to keep me in line though. Yeah, she pinches me or gives me dirty looks when I get tacky ugly on the phone.

a couple months ago.. I had to call and apologize to my mom for being so neglectful... my sister and I both had not called to check on her or my dad in like a month I was wondering why she wasn't calling me.. but I didn't call her. She cried.. I told her we SUCK.. and said I would start calling her.. I didn't want to SAY IT.. I wanted to just do it.. so she would know. I have been calling her about every 3 days now.. and we have a great talks. More like a friend now.. instead of me feeling *anxious* over having to call her.. good luck with MOM.. they are just as much a challenge for us as I'm sure we are for them.

I had to do the same with my mom. & then I made her apple crisp too. but I ate too much & had to throw it out before I ate it all. cause lets face it...with my love of crisp....it wasnt going to make it to her house. kind of like the chex mix for felicia. never got there. it was stolen. stolen I say.