The husband is in troubleFollow

My 3rd oldest sister called me a little while ago, out of the blue. She's getting divorced again. We had a conversation for quite some time, but after about 30 minutes of her saying something, pausing, saying something again, William Shatner style, I gave up. I'm on a prepaid cell phone plan and those minutes are precious, and while she's my favorite of my three sisters, it's only as the nice one that she wins. I have nothing in common with her, and actually feel sorry for her inability to find a fulfilling life goal and a lasting relationship.

So I tried to gracefully exit with, "I need to be making dinner for Husband soon."

Husband, who was about 5 feet away and definitely within earshot of my cell phone, blurted out unthinkingly "But we just ate pizza."

3rd oldest sister took the hint and hung up anyway.

Husband has been lectured on using dinner as an excuse to end unwanted phone conversations, and may be sleeping on the couch tonight depending on how moody I am later. I may demand a foot massage instead.

Edited, Jul 20th 2010 6:59pm by catwho

So your husband is in the doghouse because you got caught lying to your sister? That's ****** up.

Sounds a lot like my mother when I was growing up. Her sisters were (still are) pains in the ***, which she talked to on the phone all the time, and was too nice to tell them to shut the **** up, stop calling her, that she didn't care that her sister was a ***** who got pregnant AGAIN and still didn't have a boyfriend. I swear during the weekend she was never off that damn phone. Probably the week day too, but I was at school most of the day, so I didn't have to hear it.

I said it before, and I'll say it again.


Chicks are ******* crazy.

Sounds like you're taking your guilt about the situation out on him. You got caught in a lie, don't treat him like he's the naughty one. The way that you're grooming him is completely wrong.

I get foot rubs every day, when I want.

Edited, Jul 20th 2010 10:07pm by Guenny

Easy way to get off the phone is to quietly go to the kitchen, grab a pan, walk quietly back out of the kitchen and then toss the pan on the floor. Resulting racket sounds like an accident so then you can quickly say "Holy ****, what was that? I gotta go check to see if he's OK."

My family and friends all think the kids and Ray are complete klutzes.

Really, what's wrong with the old standby... "I've got another call coming in, I'll catch ya later."

Wha? YOU pay for INCOMING calls?????

Anyway, what's wrong with saying you want to be there for her, but you really regret to say you've run out of phone credit, and you have to go now. ?. THen fix a time when you can speak again later. Much later, if necessary?


My mum is on a tight budget, and I've got oodles of cell phone time, so whenever she wants to speak to me she calls up, then hangs up and I call her back and we speak for an unlimited time, and neither has to worry.

But I feel for your phone limit. I've got a tight bandwidth limit I share with two computer nerds and the end of every month we often have to limit ourselves severely.

Your husband should have been more telepathic. What a *******. Any decent man should have taken the hint that you wanted to get off the phone with your sister who just needed a shoulder to cry on.

That's how it is here too. Mostly, I think because the US was getting away with it, Canadian companies decided to do it too. Once again, **** you USA.


Also, Catwho continually strikes me as one of the most selfish people posting here.

Yeah, she kinda reminds me of that Gwynapnud person.

I'm sorry, when you're on divorce #3, I start losing the ability to feel sympathy. Especially when you're already living with someone else. I'd already given her sympathy for 45 minutes. And she's a horrible conversationalist, and I'm not much better of one, so much of that 45 minutes was dead air.

It's hard to get certain people off the phone, and unless you're a complete ******* with no empathy for others (which may be true in your case), simply telling someone "bye" in the middle of a conversation usually isn't an acceptable way to terminate the call.