B
when I, when I do that because, you know, she's a teenager --
A
Uh, oh.
B
-- so she'll, you know, I might get an important phone call, but, So tho-, I guess those three things are the, uh, uh, most irritating to me.
A
Uh-huh. I agree with the phone, too, in that, I'm single, but when I come home from work, there's times I need to pay bills, I need to balance my checking account, I need to do all kinds of different things like that, and even though it's friends calling, sometimes you just feel like, this is my quiet time, I need to get things done and the phone ringing bothers me, but that's, that's where answering machines are nice, because if it's really important they'll leave a message and I can call them back.
B
That's right.
A
But, uh, at work I have so many phone calls from customers calling in, sometimes it is just, I just want to get away from the phone ringing because it, it really does annoy me. And, uh, if I've had a lot of phone calls during the day when occasionally when we have, uh, like this past week, we have to do a lot of troubleshooting when the programmers have installed a new system, and, uh, phone rings like crazy and you come home and the last thing you want to do is have to answer the phone. And if it's some salesman, that just makes it even that much worse. And, uh, it just, I get to where I, I turn the answering machine on and just let it pick up the phone, but now with this thing I'm participating in, I kind of have to answer it, because you never know if it's the switchboard or if it's, uh, you know, somebody calling that you really don't want to talk on the phone.