when your phone rings and.....?

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ok,   so when your phone rings at home and you answer by saying "Hello",  do you find it really annoying that the people on the other end keeps saying "hello" back ? 
i have answered so many times , i would say "hello", they say "hello", ( but just in-case they did not hear me the first time i would repeat it)  if they say "hello" again , i get annoyed. Last night some one called and did this,  so i said "if you can't say anything other then "hello" , i'm hanging up (and i did).

Anyone out there feel this way? how do you handle people like that?  anyone have a theory why people are like that?

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There are two likely reasons for this.


One possibility is that you are a victim of prank callers.
These idiots have nothing better to do than annoy others 
by doing things like what you describe.
They want a reaction, so it's best to avoid providing one.
If the same twit keeps calling, pick up the phone, 
but don't say anything, not even "hello".
They usually give up after a call or two without results.


The other possibility is that for some reason there is a fault in the phone system
that causes signals to fail to reach their destination.
In this instance, it's a good idea to tell the caller to hang up and try again
in the hope that a better connection will be made.
Be polite and patient with this type of call.
On one or two occasions, I've had to try as many as four times 
before getting a good connection.

when your phone rings and.....?

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