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Calling people?

Does anyone call and hope the person you are calling doesn’t pick up? Whenever I call I get an odd feeling and hope the person does not pick up

jab60 6 June 13
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Yep!

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I do that all day long in my job. My mantra when I dial is please go to voice mail... I work in short term disability claims.

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Sometimes. I'm guessing on those occasions you're calling out of duty?

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Phone calls are more rare these days, certainly among friends I find. Most people communicate by email or text to organize a get together or say hi.
So, if I'm calling someone, it's because I need to speak to them, in which case I definitely hope they pick up.

If it's work related, I can imagine there would be a variety of reasons not to want the call to go live.

Athena Level 8 June 14, 2018
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What the heck sense does it make to call someone that you don't want to answer? That's like pulling down your pants to take a sh@t that you don't really feel the urge to take. You don't want them to answer DON'T DIAL THEIR NUMBER - it's a duh kind of thing.

It's anxiety I'm guessing.

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I rarely call anyone. I text and I answer if my kids or dad calls.

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All the time

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I wait for the voicemail to kick in and if I get a real person I stumble over my tongue. I swear I am an idiot. lol

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Yes. Sometimes to avoid actually talking to the person, I dial their voice mail directly.

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Yes, but with only certain people.

scurry Level 9 June 13, 2018
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i think it's happened but not often. if i don't feel like talking i usually have email as an option. i do not text, as someone here mentioned as yet another option. i just don't.

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Being an introvert all the time.

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I hate to judge or critize people my age with little children anxiety.

Hey there, Gipsy:
Was that a criticism, i.e. "little children anxiety"? Just checking, because you began by saying it's exactly what you don't like to do. Maybe that wasn't your intent, in which case I'm sorry for calling you out. If it was, however, I think it's fair to point out that everyone deals with their challenges, whether they mimic those of young, or old.

There is no downside to being supportive of one another. On the other hand, when you're not nice, you end up being the person no wants to call, in case they pick up.

@Athena You can call me out.... I grew up being very sensitive but able to manage monster in the closet, under the bed and in the backseat of the car. Coming from a generation that experienced everything from Nuclear Scare to now. I see too much "weak", too much "sensitive", in my house I was never reprimended by fighting with another kid, when "bullied" told by an uncle... come from behind, hit him with your metal lunchbox and do not be satisfied, remember is a bully and hit him again. He will never forget your sneak.... he did complained that I had the lunchbox full of rocks and his 2 inch gash will never grow hair but I was never bullied again. What I meant to say was My grandmother raised no victims, she raised Men that will handle their business. How far do you have to go is up to you. I don't get people "polling" here. I never asked a single individual in my life... "My wife wants a divorce, what I am going to do? I reckon my formation was cemented in the "lone wolf gunfighter" of the 50's cinema. I am against ownership of guns by civilians and my son owns shotgun and 9mm and my ex wife love to go target shooting (a fact I remember about her, always). My favorite phrase is "Fuck the nra". Don't do much phone. I never answer the phone. Those close to me if they really need to talk to me know the protocol, contact my sister, to let her know to tell me to read my texts. By her line of work, her phone is not allowed in her office in the building. So everything about me will be a delay. Only my 3 kids, my ex wife, former gf nearby, my buddies for 50 plus years and sisters will get a return call right away. Romantic interest is another matter handlex in a need to know basis. Hate not to be nice, but the reason this country is so Fucked Up is in the lack of a spine at the core of the individuals and guns do not give you a spine if you already did not had one in the first place. And then again you may think there is nothing wrong with this country and its population. I am a romantic, enjoy sadness as a vehicle for creativity but I am an island able to withstand a hurricane. I don't consult my anxieties.... I squash them like "Shane". Can not believe I said that but... I know is more than what you expected... Enough.... Being in the city for 6 weeks during 80's, I love your "handler" Athena.

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When I call anyone, I do so to talk with them.

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I rarely call anyone unless it's a business or my mom (that is too old school to text).

Once in a while I'll have to call a client and I'll have to prepare beforehand as if I don't know how to talk.

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So why are you calling?

lerlo Level 8 June 13, 2018
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That is odd when some calls me I didn't want to answer.

azzow2 Level 9 June 13, 2018
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Not really if I call you I would hope you would pick up.

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On a rare occasion.

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