Am I the only one? If you call me, you need to identify who you are first
Maybe this was a bad habit I picked up decades ago when I had some outstanding bills but I'm kinda weird about my phone.
If I get a phone call on my cell phone and I know who you are - your name is probably in my contacts and will pop up when you call me.
But if I don't recognize your number then I'm always a bit hesitant to answer the phone. I mean my bills are all up to date and I've had a clean record for almost 15 years. But before I say who I am I think the least you could do is identify who you are first even if you do happen to know my name. Once you identify who you are I will then say 'Yes I am her'.
I just had an interesting call and 3 times I asked 'May I ask who is calling please' and each time the answer was 'Is this Lynne <my last name.'. BTW if they can't pronounce my last name then they definitely don't know who I am. After 3 times this person refused to identify themselves so I just hung up. I figured whatever they were calling me about wasn't important enough to identify who they were which means they were probably selling me something.
And btw another reason is because I am a single woman. So for me someone who won't identify who they are I hold as slightly suspicious.
Anyone else like that odd about unknown phone calls?
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The "is" is like an equals sign; A=B implies B=A, so you need equate the terms on both sides. "This is she" fits that description. 
Now compare "I gave it to who" vs "I gave it to he". "Him" is the correct form, as is "whom".
Of course, 99% of people will never notice the difference. 
I would have hung up too.
I also don't like it when machines call you and automatically put you on hold. 
about the telephone used to be people who would call me and say, "Who's THIS???" like I'm not supposed to be at my own number. OK, I realize they don't know they dialed a wrong number.
When I suspect I've done that, I always ask if __________ is there, and if not, I apologize.
Anyway, when someone says, "Who's this???" I ask them, "Who are you calling?"
So, that hasn't happened in a while. Probably because I don't answer the phone.
Oh, something pretty funny happened a month or two back. We were out and someone called and left a 3 or 4 minute rant on our answering machine about some woman she works with complete with some embarrassing details and lots of profanity. She apparently meant to call a friend to complain about the coworker but got my number instead. I often wonder what she thought if she mentioned the call to the friend, who, of course, didn't have a clue WTF she was talking about...
If somebody calls me, seems confused and asks me who I am, I just ask "Who are you looking for?" If they're not calling me I just say "You must have dialed the wrong number" and leave it at that.
Funny thing happened to me once. It was the late '90s when cellphones weren't omnipresent yet. I didn't have one, but a friend of mine did, and one time she called me on my home phone and, after I answered, asked me "Where are you?"
I was taken aback but then answered "Well, where did you call me?" It took her a moment to realize that if she called me on my home phone and I answered, I must be at home...
Nowadays that question is normal, but back than I thought it was funny.
OK, it's still funny, even today!
Last year my family totally blindsided me on my birthday.
Hubby was going to take me out to eat.
When we passed by our favorite restaurant, I figured he had another place in mind, and just went along. He stopped at this store, stopped at that store, stopped to get the car washed, etc.
Meanwhile I'm starving and getting rather cranky.
So we finally get to another favorite place and walk in and sit at our favorite booth. As usual, I have to pee, so I get up to go and I'm just getting done when there's a knock on the door. I finish washing my hands, open the door, and it's my daughter with my mom...who lives in Florida. She looks familiar but it can't possibly be my mom because I spoke with her earlier in the day (presumably in Florida) and she asked what I'd be doing on my birthday.
Well, it never occurred to me that she was calling from a motel 30 miles away on her cell phone.
anyway, it was my mom. She and her man friend had sneaked up here a few days earlier without saying a word to me (although the rest of the family knew) and surprised the hell out of me.
Cell phones sure make life more...interesting.
Because now, everyone ASSUMES you have it.
"Is Jane (Miz t.) there?"
I used to say "Just a minute", but now I say "WHO IS THIS?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, You don't have caller ID? This is so-and-so. Is Jane there?"
"Just a minute."
Yes, I'm 'rude' when you don't identify yourself.
I was taught that when you make a phone call it should go like this:
"Hi, this is trof. May I speak to Jane?"
Of course that was back in the mid 40s.
You sounded really happy to hear from me.
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