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Its the worst, isn't it. I seriously will not pick up a call if I don't know the number! I just hope they leave a voicemail.
I hate talking on the phone too! It makes me so nervous! I would rather talk to people face to face or at a computer where I can type and think about what I'm going to say!
I love my Blackberry but I hate talking on the phone. The 14 year old teenager me who just HAD to have her own phone line wouldn't even recognize me now.
I usually put N/A in the phone number fields when prompted. When people ask for my number, I give it and say "Text me anytime! or EMAIL! Want my email address?! Here's my email address!"
I hate it, hate it. I hate when people leave me voicemails too.
I do the exact same thing. I screen all my calls or have people call my FI instead of me. I hate the phone. I use maybe 30 minutes a month of my 500 minute plan, the smallest one.
I used to be okay with a regular phone, but now I only have a cell phone. I can't always hear people very well on a cell, and almost everyone here has a cell instead of a land line. So people call me on the subway, walking down the street, in a croweded bar and want to talk, and it's so uncomfortable to have a conversation like that. I used to talk for hours on the phone, but now I rarely have a conversation past 2 minutes!
Ugh, I also HATE the phone. I would just rather email/text/talk in person. The phone is so awkward and I feel like I can only hear well in minimal places in my everyday life (I don't get service in my office, my building is too loud, when I walk outside it's too loud, subway doesn't get service, etc.)
I am totally part of this club!
Yeah, I think its that I hate not knowing what to say...I like to think of what I'm saying before I say it. And I hate awkward pauses.
Two years ago when I was job hunting I was constantly getting job calls. I decided - I'm gonna stop being a baby and just pick up the phone when it rings (instead of waiting for vm and then calling back when I'm ready).
Bad idea! I picked up the phone and it was a recruiter wanting to do a phone interview to determine if I would get an in person interview. I was sooooooo not ready, but when he asked "is this a good time" I said "sure" (cuz I'm an idiot like that). I literally was breathing soooo fast and I know he could tell cuz it was affecting my talking. Oh my god, he must have thought I was psycho.
I got called in for an interview though and got the job.lol
Me too! I do not like talking on the phone. I don't like making important phone calls, I screen my calls, etc. I have phone anxiety. The one exception is my husband. When we first met and were living almost an hour apart, we talked on the phone for almost 2 hours at a time. That's huge for me.
@tessabella76 - I had no issues talking on my phone with my FI (then BF). We could talk for hours on end. I'm fine with family too
But I dont even like being on the phone with casual friends. I feel like I'm so stupid on the phone.
I totally hate the phone, too. Especially work calls. Just email me! I'm not going to be able to answer your question on the spot 9 times out of 10 anyway, plus then I have record of whatever the issue is. Also I hate when my (nearby) friends call me "just to talk" - let's just get together!
Ooh the work calls. Worse than the work calls... is someone who emails you and IMMEDIATELY calls you to tell you they emailed you, before the email has even traveled the server and hit your mailbox.
Couldn't we have just waited 60 seconds and avoided this verbal exchange altogether?
Oh totally!
BF and I flip coins to see who orders takeout.
I also find that I can't really keep attention on the phone, and I hate having to ask people to repeat themselves. :/
@surkim - yeah, I sometimes don't pay attentin either. But generally I'm a good listener, just not good at engaging.
i hate the phone! my fi thought i didn't like him when we were first dating and talked on the phone because i'm just not good at it. now i have my fi doing a crap load of the wedding planning because i get so anxious calling the vendors and he knows it, and he doesn't want me to be anxious during the wedding planning process. poor guy.
@artbee - you sound like me (making my FI make important calls). hehe
I seriously am soooo tired. Shes hasn't called and I'm sick and want to take a nap, but I can't until she call. I should just call her myself so I can get on with my day, but I'm too nervous. Grrrrrrrrr
Me too! I think it's because our generation is now always with their phone. And there is caller ID. So everyone knows that they SHOULD always be able to get in touch with you. Like, remember the days when you just had a house phone and if you were out people had to leave messages on your answering machine? Or even further back, before answering machines...you actually had to BE THERE to receive the call?? (though, honestly, i don't remember receiving many phone calls before we had an answering machine...i think i was like 5..lol) Cell phones and always being available kind of suck....
OMG, I hate the phone! I'm totally introverted and have really bad anxiety. My friends and family get so mad at me because they can never reach me, because I either avoid their calls or I lose track of where my phone is because it doesn't matter to me.
I wanted to get a wedding planner just so I could avoid the stress of making appointments and dealing with vendors over the phone. Unfortunately, we can't afford one so I'm stuck doing all of it. Luckily most people in the wedding industry are very nice so far so it hasn't been too uncomfortable... yet!
This post is great!
I did not know there were so many of us who hate talking on the phone!
Wanna know something funny?
That's what I do for a living. I talk to people on the phone. All. Day.
LOL!
That's not why I hate it though. I hated talking on the phone long before this job. The funny thing is, I have actually sat and tried to pinpoint just when it was that my aversion to phones took place.
I can't come up with anything.
It doesn't scare me, or freak me out, it just makes me particularly irritable. Not really on the job, but mostly when I'm on my own time (not getting paid for it lol). If I'm talking to my best friend or my mom, I will put it on speaker phone and set it down so I can do whatever it is that I want to be doing at the same time (while still listening to them), so my hands are not monopolized by holding a phone. (No, I don't have bluetooth right now). By putting them on speaker, I have found that the call typically doesn't last much longer than 3 more minutes.
It turns out that people just don't like being on speaker phone lol!
So that is my dirty little secret to avoiding those long drawn-out calls.
Works like a charm :)
Hate. Hate. Hate. The phone.
My FI always makes fun of me because I will do ANYTHING to avoid making a phone call. I'm like "I'll wait till I'm home and email them" or "I'll just figure it out myself" - it drives him nuts!
It's really just only to people I don't know...like I have no problem calling my sister and talking to her for 45 minutes, but I get very anxious when I'm calling businesses or people that I don't know. I know it's dumb, but it just stresses me out! The funny thing is, I'm not shy or introverted at all!! I just hate the phone.
Neither me or Mr. DG are phone people, but I'm not phobic. I just think it's a hard medium to use.
My mom on the other hand is straight-up phone phobic. I remember her having us make calls for her when we were 12, 13, and 14. I hated doing that more than anything!
Wasn't she supposed to be the big kid?
I hate hate hate the phone. I hardly ever answer the phone, even when it's one of my good friends calling. I would rather just talk to you in person. It's been hard for me though since I've moved away from most of my good friends and I can't meet them in person. Oh well, I still don't answer the phone when they call most of the time. The only person I talk to on the phone on a regular basis is my mother. Most people know I hate the phone and don't mind that I don't ever answer it when they call.
I'm terrified of talking on the phone. Hate it. I avoid it at all costs.
I don't fear it, I just loathe it. As soon as texting came out, it was bye-bye phone calls for me.
My sister was horribly afraid to use the phone as a teenager. She would make me call her friends, call and order pizzas - she was like, seriously SCARED to use the phone.
HA I love this post. I have a terrible fear of the phone, why? I have no clue what so ever!! And I certainly have unlimited texting for that reason.
OMG this is so me. AND I work in a call center as part of my job!! (go figure)
Today I had to call to make an appt for my dress to be steamed and rewarded myself with a mocha afterward....ahhh.
It doesn't bother me, but my fiance is pretty anti-phone. He only calls me (instead of text or email) if something big is wrong, and once he called just to say "hey" and I was freaking out when I saw his number come up! I thought someone died or something before I picked up.
omg i'm terrified of the phone! i'm embarrassed to say this but if i'm calling anyone besides my family, FI, or close friends.. i seriously have to write out what i'm going to say!.
At work, the universal phone line doesn't ring too much ( when it does i wait..no pray.. that someone else picks it up..and they usually do ) thank god!!
ahh, now i'm super embarrassed.. but its true!!!!!
Ohhh you all make me feel so much better!! I get super anxious if I have to talk on the phone, it really doesn't matter who it is, and I could never figure out why I feel that way. My fiance feels the same way, but he's getting a lot better. We used to argue over who's turn it was to call for pizza, 'cause neither of us wanted to use the phone!
@LittleLynx - OMG, one day, FI called me and asked if I could phone in an order for take-out Chinese so he could swing by and pick it up before coming over and I made so many excuses to NOT order...
I don't mind talking on the phone, but I won't go out of my way to do it. I'm more of a texter.
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How many people get anxious over talking on the phone? I DO!
I'm here waiting for a call from my soon to be employer, and my tummy is turning. I hate answering calls, I hate calling people. I am not a phone person at all. I'm definitely introverted and prefer to be alone than socializing, but generally I present myself well in front of people. But on the phone? Ugh, I hate it soooooo much. I don't understand why its so hard for me.
Anyone else like this?