Wednesday, June 29, 2005

GOOD and BAD phone etiquette


BAD Example
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gal: (sounding out) you feeling sleepy??
guy: yeah, tired from work...
gal: (sounding concerned) ok, shall not disturb you,
go and sleep lah
guy: ok, you have an early nite too..

guy hangs up the phone.
5 min later, the phone rings.
the guy is awaken by the phone...

guy: hello?
gal: .............
guy: who's this?
gal: (feeling unloved) you feel very bothered by me is it?
guy: (confused) huh? what?
gal: .............
guy: why? what happened?
gal: you find me very bothersome is it?
guy: bothersome? what makes you say that??
gal: ..............
guy: what's the matter? how i would know if you dun say it out?
gal: we are chatting halfway, and you yawn, and went off to sleep...
guy: b...but, you are the one who ask me to go to sleep...
gal: you already said want to sleep already, what else u want me to say?
guy: haiz... if you wanna chat, just say so...
what for tell me to go sleep, and feel unhappy in the end?
gal: since when i'm unhappy?
guy: isn't this unhappy? ok ok, i won't sleep the next time, will that do?
gal: what's the point? i want you to chat with me willingly,
and not because afraid that i will be unhappy...

in the end, guy spends another hour comforting the gal.
actual sleep time is 11.40pm.
due to the earlier argument, he did not have a good sleep.
worse is that the gal may argue over the same thing again the next day.





GOOD Example
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gal: (sounding out) you feeling sleepy?
guy: (tired vocal, but sound interested) abit,
tired from work. but you have not finished talking,
carry on, i will be listening.
gal: (feeling consoled) oh, but since you are tired,
go and sleep then (still sounding out)

never fall into the trap after and hang up the phone...

guy: there's no afternoon break today, indeed very tiring.
how abt I give you a call tomorrow morning.
let's chat awhile more ok? (tells the reason, and offers a make up measure)
gal: oh ok. go and sleep now, you must be tired.

gal is willing to let guy go sleep,
but guy must do a bit more than this.

guy: so what time you are going to sleep?
gal: not sure, probably a bit later.
guy: ok, but not too late, not good for health.
I will be heart pain one hor...
gal: (feeling loved) ok lah...
guy: I love you the most!
(even if eyes are shutting also must remember to say this important words,
else all effort wasted)
gal: I love you too, have a good rest! (so happy till can float liao)
guy: ehmm...

gal then hangs up the phone at last, 11.10pm.
the guy sleeps peacefully,
and will probably get a morning call from gal the next day...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

HEHEHEHE... I won't fall for that :P

c_keah said...

Well, Darren did send this to me.

It's not I who knows how to sweet talk girls...
But Darren, 'cause this is from him.

haha! Darren sempai...