Klatrymadon wrote:
Another enemy of the telephone, here. Partly because they all have a horrible, nagging, urgent sort of sound about them, which I think someone on WoS likened to a stranger walking up to your house and shouting "hey, talk to me!" into an open window.
I think that was me, because I stole it wholesale from Stephen Fry.
I intensely dislike telephones, and rarely answer them at home, but with my close friends I'll talk on the thing for three or four hours once I get started - oddly I seem to always know when it's they who are calling (and we have an ancient, shabby phone without a digital display, smartarses). At work, and when calling strangers or Official People, I have an impeccable telephone manner and am genuinely excellent at using it, but I still hate using them too much, and using them at home, and more than anything I hate the bloody
noise.