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When I was a kid way back ago my brothers and sisters would race to answer the phone, caller-id introduced in the early 80's stopped all that.

Texting began the telephobia, I hate texting.

That said if I get a call that says scam I don't answer.

Have fun it's friday.

1 posted on 01/24/2025 12:36:34 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
My telephobia is entirely due to me watching this unsettling skit when I was younger. I wonder if it’s not too late to file a lawsuit.


2 posted on 01/24/2025 12:43:51 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: DallasBiff
Generations past must be laughing, or crying, at how pathetic this generation is ... anxiety about answering the phone.

How low have we sunk?

3 posted on 01/24/2025 12:46:06 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: DallasBiff
talking on the phone can become highly anxiety-inducing.

Poor weedle snowflakes.

4 posted on 01/24/2025 12:51:39 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: DallasBiff

I always dread calling people on the phone, at least when you text, you know you’re not forcing them to stop what they are doing.


5 posted on 01/24/2025 12:54:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

Almost every adult I know, who is 45 or younger, is bad at answering phone calls or responding to texts.
I don’t know what it is. They don’t even seem to feel guilty about ignoring messages.


7 posted on 01/24/2025 12:57:23 PM PST by lee martell
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To: DallasBiff

Oh, I answer each one of the 6 or 7 robocalls I receive each day ... and I play one of several “special recordings” I have collected over the years when they come on the line. Depending on how many times they’ve called or at what time they call (some as early as 5 or 6 a.m.), they may be treated to one of my “special recordings.” (An ol’ man’s gotta have a little fun, ya know!) Cheers!


8 posted on 01/24/2025 12:58:01 PM PST by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: DallasBiff
This is an actual movie, released in 1980.


9 posted on 01/24/2025 1:00:39 PM PST by Angelino97
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Another misnomer, like “homophobia” (literally “fear of the same”); this one means “fear of covering distances”.


15 posted on 01/24/2025 1:20:19 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DallasBiff

Shouldn’t the term be something like “telephone phobia”? “Tele” in Greek means distant or far away, so “Telephobia” would mean fear of distance.


16 posted on 01/24/2025 1:24:49 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: DallasBiff
I have telephobia. Do not call me, please. When the phone rings I freeze. Previous "partner" terrorized me with repeated calls and voicemails, after torching everything. You know who you are. I struggle to forgive.
17 posted on 01/24/2025 1:27:02 PM PST by OwenKellogg (...if my people, who are called by my name...)
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To: DallasBiff

I had telephobia long before texting was invented. Always have hated making phone calls but can’t think of any reason for it, save perhaps one disgusting, vile prank caller when I was a kid.


19 posted on 01/24/2025 1:31:42 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: DallasBiff

I didn’t know it was a thing but I hate using cell phones. The old phones not so much. Maybe I hate calling because I hate being called on a cell.


23 posted on 01/24/2025 1:36:43 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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I don’t have telephobia: I have telehatred. I HATE telephones. Have hated them since I was a child.

They never ring when it is convenient for me to answer, and almost always when it is most inconvenient.

I turn on my phone maybe six times a year; If you absolutely have to speak to me, email me for an appointment to phone. I’ve been known to drive 60 miles just to avoid making a phone call and talk to people in person.

Thank God for inspiring Algore to invent the internet. If it weren’t for email and FR, no one would ever hear from me.

Of course many people would consider that a blessing.


29 posted on 01/24/2025 1:57:28 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: DallasBiff
I do not have telephobia. I have tele-reluctance.

Probably because outside of a few calls to family my phone calling consists of hearing, "your call is very important to us. (No, it isn't. Otherwise you would have answered!) please continue to hold for the next available representative. Your expected wait time is 14 hours and 37 minutes."

34 posted on 01/24/2025 2:36:42 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: DallasBiff

The only phobia I have is trying to call for help, where I have to jump through hoops to talk to a person.


36 posted on 01/24/2025 3:15:04 PM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: DallasBiff

The therapeutic state invents yet another phony disorder. Of course the only “treatment” is suicide and homicide inducing drugs


38 posted on 01/24/2025 3:51:51 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DallasBiff

Telephobia, no girlia. Tragedy.

When you want her bad enough....you will ovetcome it.

You will learn that is what makes a man.....overcoming obia.


42 posted on 01/25/2025 6:49:53 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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