What's your unofficial cut off time for ringing someone who is not a close friend or family ?
Are there different 'rules' for calling mobiles and landlines ?
A bloke from another team i've never spoken to before called on the house phone last night at 10.15pm, just to see if my club wanted a friendly this Sunday. He woke up my wife and one of the babies, and it took me nearly an hour to get the baby back to sleep again. To say i wasn't impressed was an understatement and i let the fella know.
Was i right to be off with the fella ?
In my rules, i wouldn't call someone i didn't know's landline after 9pm, mobile after 9.30, though i may text them up to 10pm.
What are your rules ?
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Think you've every right to have a word with him.
I'm available for Sunday by the way!
Landland after 8.00 am and before 10pm
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would text anyone at anytime. If people don't turn their phones off or on silent over night then thats not my problem. Texts were invented to be non obtrusive 'respond when you want' way of communication.
Afka, get him back by sending him texts to his landline every time you're up doing an early morning feed. the landline will ring - he'll get to the phone and it'll be some automated voice speaking your message in a monotone way. just do it at 4am tomorrow morning saying "not very funny is it". that'll teach him :-)
I therefore have to argue on this fellas side for a moment. I suspect he doesn't, like me, have children. Us child-less folk run normal services until 11 or 12 at night and can forget that other people's days end much earlier.
He may not have gotten back from work until 8 or 9pm then had something to eat and had other calls to make before yours.
So whilst I understand why you shouted at him and I'm sure he does too, do understand that we are all different.
For me I don't like to ring much after 8-8.30 as I have no idea if the recipient has young children or has to get up stupidly early for work etc. Certainly I would ring no later than 9 so I have sympathy with you AFKA for being rung at 10.15pm especially with the little uns.
Mobiles are different. I should imagine to ring no later than 9.30-10pm. They are a less intrusive way of communicating. I would never text to confirm a game. Email sometimes is better followed up with a call.
Nope, i live in a childless househould and i wouldnt call that late. in fact i was bed at that time last night.
House of a friend (who lives alone) = anytime.
House of a friend who shares = 10 pm.
Mobiles - fair game at most times.
Texts - are we being serious? What would life be if you didn't wake up to a drunken text sent late doors from someone every so often?!
An honourable chap would not dare to intrude into another fellow's soirée via the infernal 'Mr Marconi's celebrated telephonic apparatus'.
A brief note, handwritten in cursive style, and delivered by a grubby, yet trustworthy street urchin (for one ha' pence) should be the preferred method of communication - and that before the evening ignition of the gas mantle, I counsel.
If the joker who rang at 10.15pm was Mensa's Finest, than you were more than entilled to give him both barrels down the phone.
It was my good friend Skel, a few beers in, to inform me that we had won the quiz league. It probably could have waited.
Mobile call same
Text- depends on who you are texting and how important it is. Also depends on whether the receiver is the type to keep their phone on/off or on silent. Would say up to 10.30pm is reasonable.
I dont mind friends and family ringing up at anytime if it is important
Can completely understand why you'd be pee'd off.
9.30-10pm landline cut off, 10pm mobile...it's up the owner if they want to turn the phone to silent or not.
I think there's widespread agreement on here. Any landline phone calls we get after about 10pm we assume to be an emergency or important. Mobiles are different. Texts, anytime.
One guy called Vic run a publishing business from the house so would constantly get calls starting "Is Vic there?" which will be funny to 80s punk and Monty Python fans.
Another guy in the house was head of some sort of wannabe Charles Manson cult leader who would have distraught followers calling him at all hours but he'd never get up to answer the phone. So we started telling the callers he's been re-born or been abducted by aliens or that he was conducting a human sacrifice and couldn't come to the phone. None of them seemed too surprised by this.
Certainly.
A few of us stayed in Stoke after Crewe away in the promotion year and left a load of messages on our gooner mates landline in the early hours.
Little did we know, his missus had family over and was sleeping on the couch right by the phone. She was not impressed!
A mate can ring me anytime up till midnight and I wouldn't be that annoyed.
My work phone is 24-7 so those who call it need to
Texts? - Fair Game!!!! No way, I get seriously pee'd of with our kid lately who sits texting in the middle of film. I'm trying to concentrate and all I can hear is ping, ping ping in my kinnear. They should switch the whole network off when I'm watching the tele.