How do I take a phone call away from my parents and siblings while on holidays?

Question

I'm bad with doing things slyly. Basically, a person needs to call me at a certain time. I can choose the time. However, I need to be away from my parents and siblings (Mom, Dad, brother and sister) while I take the call.

Normally I would do it at school, except I'm on Christmas holidays. I'm being very vague, I know. Does anyone have any ideas on how I keep this phone-call from my parents/siblings?

To the person who said I should reconsider what I'm doing: Yes, I should reconsider :) It's nothing bad, it's just my family is quite close-minded and would have a problem with me doing what I plan to do, in addition to the fact that they probably wouldn't like me giving out my cell phone number to CPHA officials.

Answer 1

If it's something that you need to hide or do "slyly", then maybe you should reconsider what you're doing. If this is something that you absolutely have to do, then you should probably talk with your parents to have some free-time where you could use the telephone without interruption. Parents are not monsters, and if you tell them that you need some peace and quiet to take this call ... they will probably butt-out and leave you alone without too much fuss. However, if you try to sneak around and hide things from them, they will get suspiscious and want to know what the heck is going on. If you truly do not want to talk to you parents about this, then consider taking the call at a friend's house or waiting until you're back at school. Good luck.

Answer 2

You are being very vague, but if this helps any- here's what I used to do when I was a kid:

In my teens years, I was addicted to the phone. I got calls really late and dad would chew me out. We have call waiting so if I'm on the phone, someone else can call (not getting a busy signal). What I devised was, if I knew someone would call at say 10PM- I would pick up my phone and call our local weather line and listen to a recording. When my friends would call- it would beep and I'd answer that call. When the recorded message was done it would hang up on me. So- there I was talknig with my friend and the call waiting was available incase someone else called me.

Great times! I miss being a kid (this was less than 10 years ago by the way).

Anywho, that will onlywork if you have something similar to call waiting

If you are getting this call on a cell phone or something, just go to the bathroom and run water until you answer the call then go back to your room. Or, you could turn a tv or stereo up.

Answer 3

Usually when I have to read a question twice and still didn’t understand it, I have to come back to questioning it. Your question is seems spooky to me. It seems like your family didn’t have a respect for your privacy, and you have a lot of secret to hide from them. Normally, when someone have a phone call, everyone would give that person and that phone call a respect. By excuse themselves and walk away, or simple be quiet until that person finish that phone call. If you are a visitor then the person who just receive this phone call will have to either; ask the caller to call back later or ask if he/she could call that person back. If the person on the line say no then he/she have to make that phone conversation short and simple one. This is a manner that everyone should have for their visitor. However, in your case is different. It sounds like you are almost like a stranger to them that they don’t know anything about you and die to know something about you. Even you live in the same house, but seems like no communicate there for some reason. Maybe if you talk with family often about your personal stuff, after all family need to have trust of each other. Unless if they could be trust then you can simple tell them that, and you want to continue keep privacy because of that. A private one!!! When they get a hint then maybe you could work thing out with them. I think your family concern of what you are doing and want to know. If you live in a secret world and still with the family; even if you try to deal drug and you don’t want them to know, they will still want to know what you were doing. You couldn’t stop a family for concern and even be a plain nosy to your business. Every family is like that, not just yours. The more you want to hide your personal secret the more they want to know about it. However, if you come out in the open then no one want to know what you do any more. It happened!!!

Answer 4

Tell them you are going to take a walk :)