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Monday, November 17, 2003
Hullo!
Has this ever happened to you?I was having a conversation with someone when their cell phone rang blaring one of those zippy little MTV tunes. The person looks at the cell phone and proclaims to everyone in the immediate zipcode, "Oh, I'm getting a call from my brother who lives in Arizona! I love it when I see the eyes roll of some of the other observers.
Because I wanted to be courteous, I said, "Go ahead and take the call."
Then the person answers the phone and says, "Good Afternoon, this is Bob Butler." A couple of things bother me about the way he answered hisphone. Bob's brother knew who he was calling. Bob's brother also knew that his phone number would show up on the called ID screen as the phone rang. And Bob certainly knew it was his brother.
So why would Bob answer the phone this way? Is he impressing me that he is answering a business call? Not after he told me it was his brother. Is he trying to impress himself that he got his first phone call of the day? Was he trying to impress his brother making him think he really didn't pay attention to the called ID?
Maybe I should give him the benefit of the doubt that he answered the phone that way out of habit. I have sometimes done that. I have answered my home phone the way I would at work, but only after I drifted off to sleep for a few minutes and was awakened out of a sound sleep. Or maybe he thougt the call was going to be monitored for quality control purposes.
To me life seems to be getting too complicated. Maybe each of us can do our part to make life easier by just saying "hello!"
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