how many missed calls seems weird

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three missed calls 17
four missed calls 10
two missed calls 4
five missed calls 1
only at eight or above missed calls is it weird 1
six missed calls 0
seven missed calls 0


schlump, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:15 (sixteen years ago)

four def

k3vin k., Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:16 (sixteen years ago)

it's different now, you can't absentmindedly, impatiently just call until someone's home. it makes you look like a stalker.

schlump, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:17 (sixteen years ago)

you can call someone, call right back if they don't pick up, then call back again later. after that you should get the idea

k3vin k., Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:17 (sixteen years ago)

my sisters called me fourteen times in the space of twenty minutes last saturday for something really trivial

plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:18 (sixteen years ago)

3 missed calls from anyone who isnt a good friend is weird. good friends can have as many missed calls as they want.

max, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:18 (sixteen years ago)

xp yeah that works. i am thinking evenly spaced. but then it seems like you aren't doing anything else, just watching the hands of the clock roll around.

schlump, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:18 (sixteen years ago)

I never get em so I never miss em

Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:20 (sixteen years ago)

My dad is so bad about calling over and over again. He hates leaving voicemails, so he'll just keep calling until I answer. Not like, persistently, but like once every 15-20 minutes. Like I'll get out of a movie and see 6 misses calls from him and kinda panic that something was wrong, call him back, and he'll be all "just calling to say hi".

you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

max OTM, really

kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:38 (sixteen years ago)

2 normal, 3 weird

harbl, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

it's different now, you can't absentmindedly, impatiently just call until someone's home. it makes you look like a stalker.

― schlump, Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:17 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

at school -- about 15 years ago -- i knew this guy who(se dad) had some real swanky comms set up at home, and i called a couple more times than four, and he was able to see. embarrassing. so now i don't often call more than once.

free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

call -> call -> text msg w/ explanation + "call me back asap"

anything else seems pointless

iatee, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

my mother regularly leaves 10+ missed calls "to give me time to get to the phone" :(

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

the only time i'd leave more than one is if the subject was time-sensitive eg "we are meant to be meeting in an hour and need to sort out where"

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

Dunno, mobiles seem to be programmed to ring for the exact time it takes you to find your phone and get your finger 1mm from the 'answer' button. So two in a row is the norm for me if it's something vaguely time-sensitive.

Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

4 is weird 3 is still.. okay.

piscesx, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

It depends on the caller and/or why they need me or have to tell me I mean, shit, if it was something really urgent or whatever, then even 10 calls could be normal. But then it says more about the one with the phone; pick up the god damn phone already. J/K.

Okay, three is fucking weird if it is something trivial.

call -> call -> text msg w/ explanation + "call me back asap"

I guess, but then I'm the laziest fuck about messages (and even my phone) these days. I don't check often really.:-(

Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 21:33 (sixteen years ago)

Like I'll get out of a movie and see 6 misses calls from him and kinda panic that something was wrong

Yeah this. Voicemail is there for a reason - use it. If you ring repeatedly I'm going to crap myself and think someone's died/in hospital when I see the misses.

I deliberately dont answer my landline because only one person even knows/uses the number (mum), so anyone else calling is a telemarketer. She knows I dont answer it now tho so moves on to my mobile and calls that grrr.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 22:55 (sixteen years ago)

good friends can have as many missed calls as they want.

Yep. For more casual acquaintances, a missed call then a text outlining the intended content of the call is normal. Unless it's urgent, anything above that is kind of badgering (the whole thing resets after a couple of days).

BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

write in
http://www.avistaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/one-missed-call-2.jpg

tehresa, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah this. Voicemail is there for a reason - use it

would rather alarm people than be degraded to using voicemail. this is maybe only understandable if you hear the kind of breathy meandering messages i leave though.

schlump, Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

i hate checking my voicemail (i have to ring a number? and then press some buttons? and wait for the automated voice to drag through the date and time? and then wait while someone goes 'er, um, yeah, just ringing to, like, um' for about two minutes? fuck that noise - also if i've got no credit i can't even check it) and assume that everyone else does too. Whereas texts take no effort at all to check. So it's ring, maybe ring a second time, then text. The only problem is that some people's phones take a long time to get texts.

lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Thursday, 28 January 2010 09:42 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, it should be:

Ring,

Wait five/ten mins for person to see you rang then ring back,

Ring again,

Another five/ten mins,

Text.

(unless triv/chat time, in which case, ring once, then text.)

Mark G, Thursday, 28 January 2010 10:23 (sixteen years ago)

clarif:

Step 1 = (Wait five/ten mins for person to see that you rang then they may ring you back)

Mark G, Thursday, 28 January 2010 10:24 (sixteen years ago)

If ringing mobile, ring once, then text.

If ringing housephone, ring once, then if you have their mobile no. try their mobile then give up/text; if no mobile number ring 20 minutes later in case they were in the shower or at the shop or something, then maybe ring back 3h later, maybe the next night.

Though if you only wanted to say hi and talk about yr new shoes then give up at any point before this, really.

I don't really expect anyone to look at missed calls on a landline, but then I spent years with no caller ID (so no missed calls), and even now I rarely look at them because my shitty housephone gets confused and lists calls from three days ago that I actually answered.

canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

oh god i HATE voicemail so much, if i could i'd disable it

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

Only time I repeatedly ring a mobile is if I'm meeting someone and I know they're on the tube so I just keep ringing every couple of minutes until they're off the tube. Other than that 1 call, then text.

Colonel Poo, Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

I wish my parents would disable their voicemail because apparently it cost me 15p every time I rang over Christmas/New Years on weekdays to see how my nan was doing in hospital, got through to voicemail, and hung up immediately (I know they never check it)

canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:25 (sixteen years ago)

How to disable voicetext:

Leave an intromessage that says "Hi, I'm (whoever), don't leave a message I never check voicemail"

That should do it.

Mark G, Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:29 (sixteen years ago)

Lex, I am pretty sure you can disable it. My doctor has done so. Well, I think so anyway.

Yeah this. Voicemail is there for a reason - use it

Ek. No. Rarely use voicemail nor do I check mine.

Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:32 (sixteen years ago)

You had to get a doctor to disable your voicemail?

Mark G, Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:39 (sixteen years ago)

oh god i HATE voicemail so much, if i could i'd disable it

I NEVER listen to my voicemail so it inevitably fills up and no more messages can be left. People seem to like to point me towards the fact that my inbox is full, which is also slightly irritating, but it does the trick.

what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:45 (sixteen years ago)

dear everyone i might ever phone,

please disable voicemail if you're not going to check it, seeing as no voicemail = free call if you don't answer, and voicemail = costs the caller money either way

after 20 missed calls i will buy you the pint i have saved the cost of, as a sweetener to me telling you to answer yr bloody phone more often

canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:54 (sixteen years ago)

I generally stop at 665, and leave one more if it's reaaally urgent.

CATBEAST!! (Z S), Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:43 (sixteen years ago)

thanks to this thread i have had this in my head all day:

man this girl got me twisted up
twenty-five missed calls on her phone when she picks it up
her ex-man's at my house wanting fisticuffs,
could this be love? i best start fixing up.

thx, ilx!

lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:58 (sixteen years ago)

i said 2 cuz if they don't answer and don't call back they aint talking yo
if something must be communicated text it

thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

the genius of google voice is that you can get email/text transcriptions of voicemails so you don't have to listen to them :)

tehresa, Friday, 29 January 2010 04:42 (sixteen years ago)

Geez I'm suprised at all the voicemail hate, its not like it costs me much to dial 321 and listen to a message... even easier on my housephone I just get a blinking light and press a play button, whats the big effing deal.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Friday, 29 January 2010 04:50 (sixteen years ago)

Costs me anything, that should say - my plan doesnt charge to access VM.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Friday, 29 January 2010 04:52 (sixteen years ago)

1- if someone's on the tube/subway/whatever TEXT THEM to call you when they get off. it is so much simpler than calling a bunch of times.

2- voicemail sucks. as said above, fuck that noise.

3- i am actually confused. what is this 'house phone' all of you speak of?

arch-enemy Gay Cowboy Monster (the table is the table), Friday, 29 January 2010 05:00 (sixteen years ago)

Yes yes, we get it, all clever clogs under 30 only use cellphones.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Friday, 29 January 2010 05:07 (sixteen years ago)

Anyway lemme put it this way: unless I know yr number or am expecting a call, I ain't answering any of my phones. If you dont leave a message SOMEhow (txt is fine) then thats your problem not mine. Keep calling! You'll get exactly nowhere. Telemarketer assholes mean My Phone Doesn't Get Answered.

millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Friday, 29 January 2010 05:08 (sixteen years ago)

Someone sometimes sends texts to our landline.

We get them in the form of a computervoice reading out the syllables in a totally unintelligible way. And no "from" indication.

Mark G, Friday, 29 January 2010 09:49 (sixteen years ago)

Texts that got sent to your landline were briefly delivered in Tom Baker's voice. Really. You could make him swear and everything, it was great.

BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Friday, 29 January 2010 13:17 (sixteen years ago)

no of telemarketing calls i have received in this life-

1.

it wasn't even selling anything, just a vodafone customer service survey. tenner credit for doing it, result!

genial anarchy (darraghmac), Friday, 29 January 2010 13:21 (sixteen years ago)

heh and if karma hasn't enough lined up for me there....

i used to sell life insurance for barclays over the phone.

on weekends.

genial anarchy (darraghmac), Friday, 29 January 2010 13:22 (sixteen years ago)

^disgusting savage yes i know

genial anarchy (darraghmac), Friday, 29 January 2010 13:22 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 1 February 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Fair enough.

Rockefellatio (SeekAltRoute), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 04:33 (fifteen years ago)


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