# Quiet people - how do you talk on the phone?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiet-people-how-do-you-talk-on-the-phone/171074>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 25, 2003, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiet-people-how-do-you-talk-on-the-phone/171074 "2003-04-25T09:53:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiet-people-how-do-you-talk-on-the-phone/171074/21 "2003-04-26T07:40:52Z")

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I’m a quiet person, but I don’t have a problem calling people on the telephone.

I do have a problem ordering food on the phone, on a drive thru, and in person. For some reason, I can’t order food.

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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiet-people-how-do-you-talk-on-the-phone/171074/22 "2003-04-26T08:00:31Z")

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I’m just about the quietest person I’ve ever met, but, oddly enough, I have no problem talking on the phone. In fact, if you called me on a good day, you may even come away with the impression that I’m a very talkative guy. It’s yet another of the odd, inconsistent things about me that I have yet to figure out.

My wife, OTOH, is shy, but markedly less so than myself in real life. Somehow, though, she’s incapable of picking up the phone and ordering a pizza.

Humans are weird.

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quiet-people-how-do-you-talk-on-the-phone/171074/23 "2003-04-26T08:05:15Z")

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Wowo - I love this place. Another thread that makes me feel normal. I did not relise so many people dislike or hate talking on the phone. And yes - it is downrigh impossible with little neices - I HATE it if someone tries to force me to spak to them.

But I feel bad that, truthfully, I feel too remote to care much and very quickly want to be away from phone.

Almost usefull, the agitation and anxiety thus caused gets together with teh IBS then I DO genuinely have to get off line and into bathroom fast.

Bah - talk about looking on the bright side!

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