Somebody Answer The Phone !!!

Call me old fashioned but I remember a time when if the telephone rang you ran to answer it ! This was quite an event . You knew where your phone was because it was plugged into a socket on the wall . No one could wander off with it , or leave it upstairs ringing its self silly while you were frantically searching for it . No , those were the days .
   Further more on answering there was actually someone on the line , not an eerie silence followed by an engaged tone . There were no foreign accents gabbling at you to try their " cheaper companies " There were no scammers playing on strange " coincidences " trying to catch you off guard . Most of the time it was family or people you knew who rang up, and as I said you rushed eagerly  to answer . Today ? Well I bet its not uncommon for anyone reading this blog to admit they sometimes just let the phone ring . This was once the height of rudeness .  I only realised how I had become such a person recently, and it shocked me how acceptable this has become today . We are more tired , jaded and suspicious nowadays  I guess, which leaves us with little enthusiasm to run to that phone. Its quite sad really . Quite sad .