Last week a friend of mine asked me to call her today around 5. I did, and when I said, “Hi! It’s overly. What are you up to?” she said in a really snotty voice, “Overly, I’m watching Dr. Phil. I’ll just have to ask you to call back later. Bye.” Then she slammed down the phone. I knew she liked her TV time, but this kinda surprised me. The thing that cheeses me off is that she TiVo’d it, so it’s not like she can’t watch it later, and dammit - I just got blown off in favor of Oprah’s old shrink! Grrr…
I had hoped I was more interesting than Dr. Phil, but now my ego is seriously bruised.
Do a lot of people blow off friends in favor of TV?
I sometimes choose not to answer the phone when I’m watching television. I also sometimes choose not to answer the phone when I’m sitting around scratching my ass and watching the dogs shed, so it’s really less a matter of being more interesting and more a matter of just not being in the mood to chat.
Of course, I would never dream of specifically telling someone to call me at a particular time and then blowing them off for something I bloody well knew in advance would be going on at the same time. If she’s all that into her shows, she needs to not tell people to call her during them.
I do that, too. Or if I’m eating dinner, I don’t bother to answer. Not only do I not want to chat around a mouthful of food, I doubt someone else wants to hear me chewing in their ear.
“…and another thing, Grissom, if you don’t like the job we’re doing, you can stick it straight up your…”
<Ring!>
[pause]
Hey, what’s up…blah blah blah…ok, talk to ya later…
[unpause]
“…floroscope!”
I may well not be watching Dr. Phil, but than again I won’t be answering my phone either. I screen my calls, and even have my daughter doing the same. So… If I am watching whatever , I can here you but really don’t care unless I think you may actually be on fire, ect!
I am somewhat ashamed to say that I have in the past blown off my boyfriend in favour of TV (Though as the relationship progressed, I got tired of talking to him every night. Yes, we broke up) Of course, that was before I had a life and TV was actually important to me then.
Geesh, Dr. Phil? When she was taping it? That I just don’t get.
The Fifth Film by Quentin Tarantino, staring:
Uma Thurman as: The Girlfriend aka Jayn Newell
Some Movie Star Jayn Newell is attrated to as: The Boyfriend
Phil McGraw, clinical psycho. as: Himself
Chia Hui Liu as: Pai Mei
Sonny Chiba as: as many roles as we can. We will have him cross-dress if we need to.
If I’m watching the last five minutes of some intense movie on TV, though, I may not choose to answer the phone. But if you leave a message, I call back when it’s over…
I blow off* my friends, family and SO for Lost. The only person who is allowed to interrupt for no good reason is the baby.
Of course there exceptions to this general rule - if I know someone’s been to the dr recently or if they’ve been down about something then I’ll go ahead and answer. (I’ll still keep the show on - but the sound muted so I’m not distracted. I wouldn’t want to miss seeing the TCM if they happened to show it!)
*Meaning I don’t answer the phone - I think it’s really rude to answer the phone and then tell them you can’t talk. Why answer then?
That exact thing happened to me yesterday! Youngest daughter and I were watching the episode with the battling robots, I spent 17 minutes and 38 seconds explaining how to plug your computer keyboard in to oldest daughters friends mom. :rolleyes:
I love PVR! and CSI!
If I answer the phone, I have by definition decided that answering the call is more important that what I was doing before. If whatever I’m doing is more important, I’ll let the message system take the call.
Simple, no?
I’d answer and then reject someone only if I wanted to be insulting to them.
and CSI!