Rant: This gets on my nerves!! !

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I'm curious to see if there is anyone out there who gets as fired up as I do about this...

I can't stand when someone calls me on the phone a lot.

If someone other than my (best) friend calls me every day, or more than, say, three times a week, I get annoyed. Don't ask me to explain why, I just do.

But what really gets my goat are the times I've received two, three calls from the same person in one day. I get really, really, REALLY angry... furious. I'm so angry that I'm unable to give them a piece of my mind even if I wanted to hear their damned voice (a kind of mutism, I guess). One person called me six times one day... about three/four days in a row! I was throwing off sparks by the middle of the first day. I cut them off totally after I get ticked off; don't want anything to do with you. At all. Leave me alone.

I'm not being mean or rude, but I just can't handle it; it jars me and I feel my nerves literally going on edge. It physically hurts.

Does any of this ring a bell?

Yes, I get very angry when my mobile phone rings...the sound irks me and just having to pick up and talk irks me as it usually happens when I am in my own world or very focussed on something and it breaks that focus. Mind, I am fairly lucky as I only have one person who ever calls really, but her voice is very irritating and loud and a real shock to the system if I have been absorbed in something... it is like being suddenly startled out of a dream, I suppose.

Yup, it does, and I feel for you. I hate the sound of my phone ringing, period, so i often just unplug the thing. I suppose you could turn off the ringer, too, if need be. There's a solution to everything.

Why have one in the first place then?

That's a valid question, actually. My profession requires it so I just listen to the messages when I feel ready to do so. Maybe I should just ask everyone to contact me by e-mail and not the phone. Maybe that's what I'll do. Thanks for the inspiration.

I hate to be jolted by the vibrating cell phone in my pocket. But it is the price I pay for discipling several people.

My wife & I have a Polycom conference phone that's set not to ring between our computers so we don't have to hold it, we can see who it is, we can hear another phone ring twice while we compose ourselves, we both hear what was said and can share notes afterwards. Another phone will answer the call if we are reluctant.

The worst time I had was when I was on-call as a programmer for an insurance company who did their daily processing after midnight. And their code was lousy. When the phone rang at 2 A.M., I jumped up to answer involved technical questions 10 seconds after waking up. What an adrenaline rush! Sometimes I had to get online and start repairing software so the rest of processing could run. After that, I had to do a dozen pushups to burn off enough adrenaline so I could go back to sleep. I had occasional nightmares from that.

My landline is used for dialup, I leave the computer on when I sleep. It is the only use I have for a Phone.

Now do you miss the good old days of beepers?

People shop while talking on the phone, drive, have sex, and worse, why would I want to talk to someone who cannot type?

Who gave them your number, get one number wrong, sorry about that, memory you know.

You are at everyone's beck and call, respond to this post NOW!

There is a button that turns it off.

Answer, Yes Sir, I know it means my job to get this done now, I will be at the office soon.

Hire a hit man.

Give out the number for the CIA, they will deny knowing you, of course. Then deny that you gave them that number.

Friends are people who annoy you, who are neither strangers or enemies, make enemies, they do not call.

the sound of my phone ringing is horrid. most of the time, i don't feel like talking to whoever is calling.

I hate answering the phone period. Unless I have a friend I am expecting to call, the sound of the ringer terrifies me because I'm scared its somebody with bad news like I am in trouble or I will be forced into awkward conversation, I guess because I don't use the phone almost at all, the phone calls I have gotten have been disproportionately from bosses asking me why I'm not at work!

For me it goes beyond the ringer jolting me; it feels like I'm being hen-pecked to death by too much 'contact'. Whether via phone, computer or in person, it doesn't take much for me to get overwhelmed by having to interact with someone.

I may want to call a friend or acquaintance - or send an e-mail - and it'll take me days sometimes to get the gumption to do so... or weeks. It's exhausting just to think about it. It's the same with posting here, or on any other site as well...

This made me feel the best I've felt all day - you are a riot.

Juggernaut and tinky, I feel the same way!

I don't have a cell phone. And I have call display on my home phone. And since I get my TV service from my local telephone company, my call display also appears as a pop-up box on my TV screen when I watch TV. If I don't feel like answering the phone and it isn't a family member, sometimes I just let the answering machine get it.

My mother does this; she calls me once. Then remembers something she didn't tell me the first time so she calls me back. Then, she discovers something she finds interesting on tv and calls to tell me about it. Usually some lame musical from the forties or fifties I'd rather die than watch. Then she realizes she gave me the wrong day, time or both (! !!) for the film I'd rather die than watch so she calls me to correct herself. Then guess what? The movie is on tonight! So she calls me after to see whether I got to see Ralph Finkeldorffer in his prime tap dancing. AAUUGGHH!! !!

This is one of the best descriptions I have seen for my feelings about friends or family calling.I can go weeks or months without talking with them.I think of them often through out the day but have no need to actually speak with them.I made the mistake of signing up for yahoo messenger.....had a friend contacting me as soon as I got on line.They didnt have anything to say and I would be trying to look at my email or looking at something on line.I ended up turning "invisible" just to avoid him and still cant seem to get up the energy to contact him.He finds this personally insulting,I find it to be a matter of retaining my sanity.I force myself to stay in touch with my family but I have to be in the right frame of mind(not often)and it takes at least several hours after waking and much coffee to achieve this state.This is one of my major procrastinations....after all,I can always call tomorrow.

I get it too Sakmet. I've unplugged the phone for up to two years. They do send the police if it's an emergency which I know from experience (twice). Both times I got in trouble because my husband had to call home when the police came to the door. I still unplug the damn thing. If I had to look at caller ID, I've already been interrupted.

I'm the same with email and I actually had one woman (a developer no less!) come to the house to make sure I was okay! This after I told her I needed to be alone until I told her otherwise. It wasn't just her either, I told everyone that. She just showed up! That really cooked me. I cut her off. Some people just don't get it when you say you want to be left alone. They think you are duty bound to answer the phone and emails (and your door). I just don't get it.

I hate when the phone rings after I have gone to bed. I also hate when I run to the phone, only to find out it's a wrong number.