Hanging up!
 

It's just not the same anymore. You can't slam your cell or cordless phone the way you could those old Bell corded receivers. Even the corded phones these days don't have the weight of those old ones.

Sometimes, progress isn't progress...

Telemarketer interrupt your dinner again?

No, but they interrupt my work day, a lot.

There was something gratifying about slamming the receiver down in anger ...sometimes repeatedly just for the effect.
My sister once whacked me in the head with a handset from a rotary phone...talk about a pop knot.

"you hang up first"

"no! you hang up first".......

I've started answering unknown 1-800, 866, 877 #s with "this better be good..."

It's quite satisfying to smash one of those little suckers against a wall while hanging up (buy cheap phones)

Yeah, but you have caller ID now.

pour some lead into the case - it'll give you a very satisfying sound when you whack it down

Yeah, but without the REAL bells in the phone, it doesn't make that satisfying ring.

i threw one into a brick wall and it shattered into dust it was awesome

My last phone, I tossed off the Edison bridge, after a fight with my wife. Its probably somewhere out in the Gulf Stream now.

So THAT'S where those "garbage islands" come from!

I like answering with:

"FBI field office." (When I feel like being an authoritative a**hole.)

"Bloomington Morgue. You stab 'em, we slab 'em." ("Yes, Mr. Smith is here, but I don't understand why you're trying to sell satellite TV to a dead guy.)

"Big Gay Al's Dude Ranch." (This one is especially fun, you lead off with a strong "sales pitch" and you make it so they have to explain to you that they are not calling you for a gay tryst. It's really fun when they threaten to get their manager on the line, because then you have to explain that "group rates" are an entirely different thing...)

"Suicide hotline. I'm just here to talk. Tell me about your life." (If you play this one right, you get to ask them if their job as a telemarketer is what is making them suicidal.)

Another fun one is to pretend to be a competitor, and then try to sell THEM on YOUR product!

Group rates!

ROFL

I probably cycle through a dozen cheap cordless phones throughout the course of a year. It seems as if most of the stress I have in life comes to me through a phone line. I have launched a phone so far out the shop back door, that I never did find it .I have smashed them with large hammers, and I have tossed my cell phone right out the window of a moving car. I am not really a spaz by nature, but I do occasionally come unglued

Didn't Seinfeld do a skit on this...?

I think we need to work on your anger management. When I ask you about your mother, what comes to mind first?

Smashing things!