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My wife just called. This is the extent of the conversation

Me: Hey
Her: Hey, what's up
Me: Ummm, nothing much, just watching TV..what's going on
Her: Do you know what we are supposed to do for the shower (Baby shower, which is THURSDAY, btw)
Me: *gives quick details because this is ridiculous*
Her: Okay, I'll call you back a little later
Me: Okay, bye
Her: Bye

I mean, WHAT THE #$%@! I love me wife, I love talking to her, but exactly what is the purpose off this call? Why someone feel the urge to do this.

Nothing annoys me more then "Hey, what's going on" phone conversation. Especially when it's someone you LIVE WITH. Either you have something important to tell me, or you don't. If you don't, do not call.

Yeah, I know what you mean. This reminds of the re-run of Family Guy I was watching the other day. Basically, they were making a joke based on the "fact" that girls can have mundane phone conversations, whereas guys tend to view similar calls as awkward and pointless.

This was a huge contention with my longest relationship. If we had to set arbitrary amounts of time for phone calls per week, I would have asked for maybe 10 phone calls totalling about 90 minutes. I don't know, but I would guess by her amount of calling, and being upset when i had nothing to say, that she wanted more like thirty calls, and ten hours of chatting.

I understand long phone calls when you don't get to see someone in person as much as you both want. I just really hate talking to someone on the phone if I'll be seeing them in less than a few hours regardless.

Dude.....she loves ya....lighten up!

M1IRONMIKE wrote:Dude.....she loves ya....lighten up!

I understand that, but this was just a recent example that made me think about pointless phone conversations. I wasn't necessarily upset about this call (though it was a little annoying), just the practice of meaningless calls in general.

I like when they call while visiting their family, and talk to their family the whole time, while you just sit there.

I love pointless calls from the babes.....my wife is starting to get perturbed about it though.....

I HATE chit-chatting on the phone. I have a couple of friends who call to tell me all about something that happened to them and I would much rather they just wait till we get together to hear it. I see them often enough that it can wait. Invariably I find myself just nodding and saying "uh-huh" and "really" and eventually having to say something like, "well, I gotta get going". What shocks me is that they can't detect my utter disinterest in conversing this way.

I am very anti - chit chat, to the point that I don't even answer the phone when I'm at home. My wife knows this, but will still call me on her way home about absolutely nothing, even when I will see her in 30 minutes. My teenage daughter does the same thing. I think it's a plot to drive me loopy.

It's a woman thing to call for no apparent reason. My wife does it, and it drives me nuts when she does it while she is driving (here in Chicago, it's against the law to cell and drive, though it is rarely enforced). Lately I haven't had time for anything but business, so it's really getting on my nerves.