# Calling a home after 9:00 PM?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-a-home-after-9-00-pm/377312>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 21, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-a-home-after-9-00-pm/377312 "2006-10-21T01:16:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-a-home-after-9-00-pm/377312/41 "2006-10-23T15:55:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Johanna]  
When I was growing up it was always drilled into me not to call homes after 9:00, on the off chance that anyone might be going to bed at such an impossibly early hour. I have found one example of this in my whole life. A woman I dated in college told me her parents actually did go to bed at 9:00 every night; I found this out one night when I called her around 10 and she hissed never to do that again.  
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My wife and I often go to bed at nine, and I can’t remember the last time we weren’t in bed by a quarter to ten. We also follow the 9 o’clock rule.

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-a-home-after-9-00-pm/377312/42 "2006-10-23T18:32:46Z")

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I’ve always gone by the 9pm rule. And it’s best you don’t call me after 9pm either, 'cause we go to bed at 9 (up at 4:30 or 5:30).

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