07-03-2015, 11:43 PM
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Re: Trying to terminate a phone call when you're coughing!
Originally Posted by Jazzi
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Yeah but no but yeah but...She's a neighbour I talk to frequently. We always discuss issues here...the parking by church members, the bin shed area, our respective noisy neighbours, fellow neighbours who like to have a moan and whinge but don't follow it through with official channels, whether we could sell our flats/let our flats.
The same stuff, all the time. I'm muttering 'yeah, mmm, yeah, I don't know, mmmm...'
And she still wouldn't take the hint and p!$$ off!
I'm afraid you're more polite than me Jazzi.
I rarely get colds, but caught a beauty just over a week ago and spent a couple of days feeling really unwell. Shivering, temperature up, coughing and sneezing, throat on fire - the lot.
Somebody phoned me when I felt that bad, and I just said "Sorry, I feel absolutely lousy, I can't talk right now."
When she carried on talking, I just said "Sorry, gotta go" - and did.
It would have been foolish to carry on when my throat was so painful it hurt to speak.
08-03-2015, 10:31 AM
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Re: Trying to terminate a phone call when you're coughing!
Originally Posted by Mups
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I'm afraid you're more polite than me Jazzi. I rarely get colds, but caught a beauty just over a week ago and spent a couple of days feeling really unwell. Shivering, temperature up, coughing and sneezing, throat on fire - the lot.
Somebody phoned me when I felt that bad, and I just said "Sorry, I feel absolutely lousy, I can't talk right now."
When she carried on talking, I just said "Sorry, gotta go" - and did.
It would have been foolish to carry on when my throat was so painful it hurt to speak.
So it's a nationwide problem. I wish I could be that abrupt but I need all the friends I can get (and keep) right now!
The only time I can really terminate a call is when I am coughing so much it chokes me and it's nigh on impossible to keep on speaking. That's how it was back in November, (when I couldn't talk and breathe at the same time) but I seem to remember callers still kept me on the line!!! What a sadistic lot of friends I seem to have...
08-03-2015, 02:56 PM
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Re: Trying to terminate a phone call when you're coughing!
Originally Posted by Jem
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It’s a good job my missus wasn’t on the end of your line Jazzi, she wouldn’t let you go if you were waiting for the last rites, one thing leads to another with her, it’s like a perpetual chain “And do you remember our sour faced School Teacher, well I bumped into her today and she said she was talking to that very shy girl we had in the class, oh what was her name now… on and on. I very seldom answer the phone ‘cos it’s never for me, and if it's one of her mates and they are persistently ringing and I pick it up I'm stuck there talking bullshit until I say something like "Oh Christ, I left the blowtorch on in the shed, must hurry out now, see ya"
I hope you get well real soon.
08-03-2015, 08:30 PM
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Re: Trying to terminate a phone call when you're coughing!
Originally Posted by Jazzi
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So it's a nationwide problem. I wish I could be that abrupt but I need all the friends I can get (and keep) right now! The only time I can really terminate a call is when I am coughing so much it chokes me and it's nigh on impossible to keep on speaking. That's how it was back in November, (when I couldn't talk and breathe at the same time) but I seem to remember callers still kept me on the line!!! What a sadistic lot of friends I seem to have...
What part of "Sorry, I feel lousy" don't some people understand?
I'm sure you wouldn't just ignore someone who was ill and just keep prattling on Jazzi, I know I wouldn't. So why do they? Just plain thoughtless if you ask me.
Hope you're o.k. now gal.
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