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Honestly I'm fine with this as a consequence of modern convenience. The real torture for me in that first minute of a phone call is the usual: "Hi, how are you
by s3p 4y ago
Honestly I'm fine with this as a consequence of modern convenience. The real torture for me in that first minute of a phone call is the usual:
"Hi, how are you?"
Then I have to pretend they care (they usually don't), give them a 0.02 second explanation of how I am, then to be nice I have to return the same useless question before we can actually talk about their reason for calling.
- Atheros 4y agoThe only reason people do this is to verify that the connection is working, which it often isn't, as detailed in the article. > Hello? > Hi, this is Bob calling from Bob's car repair about your 1979 Ford F-350. It appears that.. > Hello? > Hello, can you hear me? One or two instances of that and suddenly everyone wants to have the "How are you" conversation every start.