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Sometimes, I don't answer the phone because I don't want to talk to you!
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My mom called me this morning and I didn't answer because I knew she was just calling to whine about me putting another video up of Leo on our family blog, and I don't have one to put up, and I'm sick of listening to her ask about it every freaking time I talk to her.
My dad called this evening but my phone was upstairs. He left a message but didn't ask to be called back. I'm really not feeling well tonight, I've had kind of a crappy day, and I don't want to talk to anyone on the phone so I didn't call him back.
Well apparently my dad called my mom to tell her I wasn't answering my phone, and she freaked out and called my husband's phone because apparently this was a sure sign that something horrible happened. I talked to her for a minute, of course she took the opportunity to whine about me doing another blog post (this is in addition to every time I've talked to her in the past week, several voice mails, several emails, comments on old blog posts, and comments on my facebook wall), and then ask why I sounded so "short." Why do I sound short?? Because you're annoying me and I tried to avoid you and you thwarted me, that's why!
Is it really too much to ask to be left alone for one day!? I mean we really all need to go into a panic because I don't answer my phone two times? Really?? It's days like this that I'm glad I live 1200 miles away from my family.
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Re: Sometimes, I don't answer the phone because I don't want to talk to you!
ugh!! MIL is like that.
she will call DH, and he won't answer. she will call me, and i won't answer. then she calls DH again and leaves a message. calls me again (my voicemail still isn't set up, so no message).
we call back whenever, and she puts on her worried face, "i was so worried someone was in the hospital!!!!"
this is the time when cell phones are constant accessibility are a bad thing.
My ILs do this. If DH doesn't answer his phone, they call mine. If I don't answer, they call him again like 6 times. When he finally calls them back, my 31-year-old husband gets scolded for not answering his phone because "it might be an emergency and you need to always pick up the phone when we call." Then he finds out they called because there was a bad car accident somewhere within a 100 mile radius of our home or job, so they were just calling to make sure it wasn't HIM.
I wish they had something better to do than stalk us.
I get b!tched at CONSTANTLY for this. My Dad is always making me feel guilty for it, because I HATE my phone. I work all day long and I am on the phone for a large majority of it. The last thing I want to do is talk after work.
Overall, I just plain suck at the phone
Sometimes I wish I lived 1200 miles away my crazy family! Tell them to suck it, Rach.
(Oh and I have not forgotten about you and the hypno stuff!! It's been a crazy week.)
My mom can get like this too. Sometimes I just don't feel like talking, whether it's just to her, or anyone!
And we'll sometimes get multiple calls...first the house, then my cell. Only on rare occasions will she try my DH's cell.
I feel your pain!
Thanks guys. I was half expecting to hear that I'm being a brat and should be nicer to my mom - I get kind of overly bent out of shape about her sometimes, lol. Glad to hear that others can commiserate!