How's Your
Telephone
Manners!
Can you think of anything more irritating than
a busy telephone—especially when you’re busy or
need to place an important call?
How’s your telephone etiquette? Are you one
of those that slams the receiver down at the end
of a call—bursting the eardrum of the poor guy
on the other end? Do you dial carelessly, taking
up someone’s time to answer a wrong number?
Are you a telephone-shouter or, even worse, a
murmurer whose soft speech is for your ears
alone? Do you speak directly into the transmitter
or are you one of those persons who holds it a
"mile away”?
These are just a few of the more common
faults that some of us have when we use the tele
phone. Most callers handle the phone with ease.
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The
Pencil Cheiver
The “mile away” guy
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but some do peculiar things with Mr. Bell’s in
vention.
There’s the fellow, for instance, who makes a
long distance or local call through the switchboard
—very important, hurry it through please. Then
he strolls quietly away from the scene of action.
When his party is on the line, he himself is among
the missing.
One of the most annoying calls is from one of
those "wordy birds” or "gone with the wind” per
sons, They talk on and on, repeating the same thing
over and over again to the extent that they fre
quently discount the intelligence of the person
called.
Then there’s the guy who is trying to kill time.
Just because he isn’t busy, he can’t understand why
you should be. This guy is usually the "good
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