doodledee

You ever have that thing happen where you're talking on the phone and a bunch of other people are hanging around and out of nowhere - BAM! - the person you're talking to hangs-up before you were ready to end the conversation and you're left standing there holding the phone like an idiot? I hate that.

Note that this doesn't necessarily mean the other person actually "hung-up" on you - though that very well may have been the case - it most likely means they just thought the call was over, and they gave you the old goodbyeclick routine. Too fast, too furious.

I never know what to do in that situation. On one hand you could just put the phone down and be all "WTF?" and maybe joke about it or something. If you really look bad I suppose you could even call the person back and when they answer you could yell "GOODBYE, ASS!" into the phone and then hang-up on them. The idea being that Tables.turn() promotes Face.save() in certain circumstances. I don't really buy it, but hey, maybe for some people.

Optionally, you could do what I usually do: keep talking into the dead phone and 'fake' wrap-up the call. Sure, you feel like a moron, but that's just on the inside. And I always say that it's better to look good than to feel good.