You tell them yes I am busy but they go right on talking?
2007-01-19 18:58:59 · 11 answers · asked by Jacks036 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I have four words for you, HANG UP THE PHONE!
try this, "hun, Im real busy right not, I'll call you back." THEN HANG UP THE PHONE. Do not give them a chance to keep talking.
2007-01-19 19:08:25 · answer #1 · answered by LadyCatherine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I repeat that I'm busy and can't talk right now, and tell them that I'll call them back later and then hang up before they have a chance to say anything else. If the phone rings again shortly after that, I let it go to voice mail; screen the call before I pick it up...if I decide to pick it up.
2007-01-20 04:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by mztreasure999 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
repeat in a more stronger tone, sorry i am very busy, then tell them a suitable time to phone back even if its the following day, if they still insist on talking then say i am going to put the phone down and do so if they continue, do not think you are being rude as they are rude too ignoring you like that.
2007-01-20 03:04:32 · answer #3 · answered by laughinggiraffe2003 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I'm home, I screen my calls, so I don't really run into that issue. I would suggest an inexpensice answering machine.
If you need a direct answer: To friends/family, I would say: "I really need to go, can I call you back?" If that was not enough: "I got to go, bye." To a stranger, I would just hang up.
2007-01-20 03:05:54 · answer #4 · answered by Voice_Of_Reason 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would just say that I'm so sorry but I really have to see to something right now and I'll call you back just as soon as I can. And then say goodbye and hang up.
2007-01-20 03:55:44 · answer #5 · answered by curious 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would politely interrupt them and tell them to either call you back in X minutes or tell them that you'll call them back when you're ready to listen.
As long as it isn't an important conversation (like my friend was in terrible car accident or my mother died yesterday), let them know that you're truly busey and, at that time, you can't offer them your full attention.
2007-01-20 03:06:37 · answer #6 · answered by Shiomi Ryuu 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd repeat what I had said and then say I'll have to call you back and hang up.
2007-01-20 04:09:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"sorry I'm busy"
put down the phone
as simple as that
2007-01-20 05:07:57 · answer #8 · answered by puno ng akasya 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL happens to me ALL THE TIME!!!! I wait until they get to a PERIOD and politely get off the phone!
2007-01-20 08:50:53 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Albritton 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I'm sorry, I really can't talk right now. Can we do this another time?"
2007-01-20 06:21:46 · answer #10 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋