when you call

[Alpo]

Your child, or your parent - do you say who you are?

 

Hello Susie, this is Dad.

 

Hi mom, this is Steve.

 

Do you? They do it all the time on TV and movies. I never have. I recognize my daughter's voice. I recognized my parents' voices. And I always assumed that they recognize mine.

 

Now the grandkids - I don't talk to mine often enough that we would recognize each other's voice. But parents and children?

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

Caller ID, I know who it is before I answer, and I assume they do too.

[Alpo]

Well that works if they're calling from their phone. But what if they are at a neighbor's? Maybe there's somewhere with no cell service so they're on a landline. Caller ID is a wonderful thing - sometimes.

[watab kid]

caller ID does that for all of us , but back when my folks were alive they would identify that way [this is dad , this is mom] but we always recognized each others voices , dads been gone since 2000 , mom since 2010 .....i had forgotten they did that till you asked 

[sassnetguy50]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

Well that works if they're calling from their phone. But what if they are at a neighbor's? Maybe there's somewhere with no cell service so they're on a landline. Caller ID is a wonderful thing - sometimes.

What is this "landline" you speak of?  

 

I identified myself when making work calls, haven't identified myself to family in many years. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Nobody calls from the neighbor’s phone anymore.

[Subdeacon Joe]

"Hi, (brother's name),  this is Joe."

 

I answer the phone with  "This is Joe."

[Cypress Sun]

If I'm leaving a message with family or friends, I identify myself with my first name.

 

If I'm leaving a message with a cowboy shooter, I identify myself with my last name - Sun.

 

If I'm leaving a message with someone I don't know (business related), I identify myself with my first and last name.

 

If I'm calling family or friends and they answer, I don't identify myself at all, I just start talking.

 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

8 hours ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:

Caller ID, I know who it is before I answer, and I assume they do too.

This ^^^

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

NoOne ever calls me! 

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

4 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

"Hi, (brother's name),  this is Joe."

 

I answer the phone with  "This is Joe."

 

So do I.  Discovered that when you don't say hello it screws with the robocaller. 

[Yul Lose]

I say Hi or Hello and then my name or alias, depending on who I’m calling,

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

So do I.  Discovered that when you don't say hello it screws with the robocaller. 

 

 

What I love is when the caller then asks, "Is this Jake?" "No, I said my name is Joe."  Or, in the case of the spam/scam callers, "Is this Joe Lovell?"  "Speaking."  "Is this Joe Lovell?"  "SPEAKING!"  "I need to talk to Joe Lovell"  (click).

[Alpo]

Receiving calls. And this is why, in my opinion, bill collectors are the scum of the Earth.

 

My daughter had let a friend of hers move into my house. He was only going to be there for about a week. After a month and a half I totally lost it and threw him out in the street.

 

So 6 or 8 months later I get a phone call, and this guy asked to speak to Bill. Who? Bill. "Ain't no Bill here. You got the wrong number."

 

Bill Johnson.

 

Oh. The jerk's name was William Jefferson Johnson (no it wasn't, I changed it for this story). And he went by Jeff.

 

So I told him that he must want Jeff. He said no, he wanted Bill. I told him that Jeff's name was William but he didn't go by Bill he went by Jeff. And I had thrown his ass out in the street at least 6 months previously.

 

He then tells me that he is a debt collector, and that Jeff had either bought something on credit or took out a loan - I don't recall - and had used my address and my phone number on the application. I repeated that he no longer lived here and I had no idea where he lived. The collector then informed me that I was responsible for the debt, since it was my house address and my telephone number.

 

I then suggested that the collector perform a physiologically impossible act of self impregnation, and hung up.

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]