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Reasons I Get Annoyed With The Way People Attend Their Phone Calls

Today, I was hanging out with a friend of mine. Everything was perfect, calm, usual until... her phone started to ring and ruined the moment. She attended the call. Started talking. For 25 Minutes!!! Okay here is the thing, when I'm with you I expect you to be involved with me and nothing else. You get a call, no big deal. You are wondering why is this person calling me? So, you pick it up and talk with the person for few seconds. Get to know why they called you and end the phone. Cool with me. I do that, everybody does that. But you know what annoys me? When the person goes on with their call for over 15 minutes. It's extremely uncomfortable. I mean you are having this full-on private conversation with another person who is not in the room and most probably the person you were spending time with earlier don't even know the person you are conversing with! Now, of course, I can hear her side of the conversation and I wanna respond to it. But I cant! Because it's not my conversation. I'm not allowed to take part in it! Later you end the call, of course, I have questions from what I heard because you said things like "Insidious" "Awesome!" "He really did that?" and all of those things. Clearly, It's a very thrilling story and I being my curious self-want to know what all the fuss was about.  But then I feel like I'm not supposed to be listening to the conversation but in my defense I'm literally sitting right there and so, I naturally can't help myself from hearing your side of the conversation. When you finally gain enough courage to ask what was it all about? and they just go "Oh it's nothing much, really" OH! Really?? I was sitting right in front of your face seeing you get so involved in that conversation of yours. Hell, even I got so involved in your conversation seeing how involved you were. Since I wasted my precious time that was allocated for some alone time with YOU! Hearing your conversation with the other person who I may or may not know I guess I have all the rights in the world to know what on earth that conversation was about! This incident got me thinking all the other times that I have been annoyed by a person when they attend a call. There was this one time when I and my friends decided to go out and we were all in a car enjoying our little talks and jokes. Until one of them got a call! You know having a person attend a phone call in a car with other people in it is the absolute WORST! Now since you have attended the phone call. No one can talk, listen to music or do anything else for that matters. I mean all you can do in a car is listen to music or talk or drive. Clearly, the last one is not the option for all five of us sitting in a car and the former two are no longer available options since she has attended the car. Now everyone has to be quiet and pretend as though they are not listening to the conversation when that's literally the only thing they are doing. I mean a car is a confined space where you can't do so much and so there is no way you can stop yourself from hearing the conversation unless you have cotton plugged in your ear holes. So, if the person who is on the phone call goes "Hey! will call you back" or something of that sort it's cool. But then they go on the call for hours. I mean what does this person seriously think though? Oh! I am in a car full of people. I will talk on the phone. You all can listen but none of you are allowed to participate in it! I mean if you are in a place where you can excuse yourself and walk away and attend the call it's alright. But when you are in a place as enclosed as a car and in company with other human beings it is not acceptable to talk with someone else on the phone for long unless it's emergency of course. One time my friend and I were watching a movie and he got a phone call and so, he asked ME to pause the movie until he comes. WHAT? Okay let me get this straight buddy you want me to pause MY movie just so that you don't miss the part and still attend the phone call Nu - Huh. Hey! You pass your call and watch the movie. I'm not pausing my life so, that your life can be I don't know pause-free? Anyways, these were, of course, going in my head I never said them out loud and as a kind human being, I paused the movie. I washed my dishes, took a nap, made popcorn and ate it and then he decides to show up. (Okay maybe I exaggerated, But still, I hope you get the point) I had to pass the movie at a very intense scene just so that you could attend your phone call. (Smh) Then the other day I was watching TV and my father had to attend a skype call meeting, Of course, he has to do the meeting in the center of the living room. My mom made me mute my TV show just so he can continue his meeting without getting interrupted. By the time he was done with his meeting my TV show ended. So I guess you can understand my frustration with the way people attend their phone calls. You know what everyone who has read my rant/article / whatever should most probably take a pledge saying: "I won't make my phone call longer than 30 secs when I'm in the company of other human beings unless it's an emergency"

Thanks for reading my rant and please don't ever extend your phone call over 30 secs if you are within the company of other humans especially if you are anywhere near me, because I won't hesitate to rip your head out and as aggressive and violent I sound I am not kidding.