# Does Caller ID Blocking (Private Name, Private Number) annoy you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 25, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-caller-id-blocking-private-name-private-number-annoy-you/659323 "2013-05-25T16:13:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-caller-id-blocking-private-name-private-number-annoy-you/659323/41 "2013-05-26T18:00:29Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Even 867 5309? billfish678, billfish678, you’re the girl for me. Nope, doesn’t have quite the same ‘ring’ as Jenny. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-caller-id-blocking-private-name-private-number-annoy-you/659323/42 "2013-05-26T18:07:48Z")
Hey, at least you tried. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-caller-id-blocking-private-name-private-number-annoy-you/659323/43 "2013-05-26T18:56:54Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > We had the couch (with a biologically created depression) and a biologic entity filling said depression. In front of the couch was a glass table. And of course the source of the Farmville depression creating device, a laptop computer on a “tv tray”. Now of course this laptop running 18 hours a day needed power. And internet. And a mouse. And a printer connection. So, we had the sofa. A biologically created and filled dent on the sofa. A glass table. And the “tv tray” to support all this between the glass table and the sofa with the depression. And all the damn wiring it needed to do said things. > > So, when the phone rang the EX acted like it was the call of your lifetime. She would nearly kill herself and or tear shit up trying to get over the wires to get to the phone ASAP. With the grace of a drunk assed water buffalo. > > Now, keep in mind, she could go an extra 3 feet to the left and avoid the wires and the glass table by going to the left of the table rather than the right where all the shit was. > > After a couple hundred/thousand times of this I’d had enough stupidity. > > I finally told her something to the effect of “If you fucking fall and or fall through that glass table bleeding like a stuck pig rushing to get to the phone, I MIGHT hand you the phone to call 911” before I walk out the door". > > She got butthurt but she also quite doing that shit. i know how you feel because one time my mom was making herself a sandwich and she used the wrong sauce (worcestershire instead of mayonnaise) and i called her a dumb bitch and she just rolled her eyes at me but then after she got done making the sandwich the worcestershire sauce soaked through the bread and made the bread soggy and worcestershire sauce got all over the inside of her lunchbox and when i found out about that i called her a retard cow and she grounded me but i won the day in the end because my grounding expired after two weeks but she is still a dumb cow ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-caller-id-blocking-private-name-private-number-annoy-you/659323/44 "2013-05-26T19:16:58Z")
Just glad your sandwich was okay. And apparently the Bloody Mary is extra strong today. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-caller-id-blocking-private-name-private-number-annoy-you/659323/45 "2013-05-26T19:34:40Z")
But seriously, I look forward to many more exciting/inspiring tales from you about how you eventually grew to deeply, deeply despise a woman you chose to marry! I can then regale you with more stories of mine, like the evening I ate a whole 8oz container of prunes and woke up with a bed full of shart puddles, and the time I stuck five filthy toothpicks under my fingernail and then it got infected. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-caller-id-blocking-private-name-private-number-annoy-you/659323/46 "2013-05-28T16:48:03Z")
ahem. Back to the OPer. Yes, I hate them and won’t answer them. Nor will I answer the door if I look out and don’t recognize who it is. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-caller-id-blocking-private-name-private-number-annoy-you/659323/47 "2013-05-28T17:28:01Z")
Our answering machine vocally announces the Caller ID. We only get up and answer those we know. It’s fun listening to how the computer chooses to pronounce certain names and abbreviations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-caller-id-blocking-private-name-private-number-annoy-you/659323.md?page=2)