Phone! Phone!

[enismirdal]

When one person is upstairs in their room, busy and holding two mugs, and one person is downstairs, sitting about 2 metres from the phone, and the phone rings, which one should answer it?

Logically, the one who has more than a 50% chance of getting there before the caller rings off, right? In other words, the one who has to shift his butt just a little way along the sofa to reach out and pick up the handset.

I WISH my brother would actually grasp this not-terribly-intellectual concept.

Comments

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

Use guilt. It's a brilliant motivator. To a point.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Would be wonderful. But that would reqire my brother to possess some rudimentary conscience, I take it?

*suspects brother may be genuinely amoral*

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

Probably not the case. But nevertheless if guilt doesn't work use forceful physical violence. That works wonders. :)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*is so tempted*

So tempted...


My brother is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and never managed to learn the whole peaceful enlightenment thing...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Who are phone calls most often for? Who suffers most if the phone isn't answered? Do you answer because it might be for you, or it might be for paretns and important and it'd be bad if it was ignored?

While Edith is very squeeful, I think the Machiavellian answer is to tell brother someone fancies him/is dying and naming him in the will/etc and going to ring him... bingo, instant answering. That, or get a cordless phone.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

99% of the time, they're for my parents, and sometimes the calls are of the kind, "I need a reply by 12 noon," where not answering the phone can be rather annoying. It just seems rather pathetic of him not to answer the phone when he is sitting right by it.

(When someone wants to contact me, I generally assume they'll e-mail or text; I can get quite sulky when people phone me unless they are a very good friend, just cos I'm weird like that! And my brother actually avoids human interation more than I do, no matter what my parents say.)

The dying and naming in will thing might be a plan...if I can convince the boy of this, it might well work. His main motivation in life is financial...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Funny, I'm always put out by unexpected telephonicness too. But I don't know if you would be or not, of course.

I see. How about an answering machine, and the APs can check it when they would be asking you who it was? After all, if I was them I wouldn't trust brother to relay accurately anyway... Or perhaps they could have a word, if they're asking you both to do this, about asking him to do it as well as you.

[the-gwyllion.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO! Same as me. Here I am, painting, all full of oils, pastels and crap, the phone rings! ~.~****** My dad sitting next to the phone watching tv, screams his head off for me to answer it. PPPFFFFTTTTT......men!

[aduial-peredhel.livejournal.com]

Never fails, does it? I'll be in the middle of something--writing, typing a paper, cleaning, in the middle of a game battle, anything that requires my brain to finish processing what it's currently doing as I am not a very good multi-tasker--and who is yelled at to answer the phone?

Yes, the phone is in my room. But there is also one in my grandfather's room, one in my mom's room and two downstairs.

Oh, and did I mention it is usually my father--the only being in the whole house who never seems to have anything to do but always says he is "busy"--who is the one yelling at others to answer the phone?

[i-eat-bibles.livejournal.com]

Well i happen to be in 2 of your brothers free periods with him at school (though he knows not who i am) and he seems to spend an awfull lots of time making and wearing hats made out of newspaper or sitting there or (this is probably the most shocking if he is a social recluse)giggling away with his friends who also happen at times to be wearing hats made out of newspaper.

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

Brothers were put on this earth specifically to annoy their families. Mine live 250 miles away and still annoy me. LOL! It's what they do best.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Q. What happens when the human body is entirely emmersed in water?
A. The phone rings.

[fairypants.livejournal.com]

Maybe James is a little deaf..if so send him my way and I can do tests on him...