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    Telephone

    Has anyone noticed that more and more when you call someplace, someone answers the phone and are talking so fast that you can not understand a word they are saying? It goes like "Hello!bsalhfda;jkvbdalufoi';vh;avnoi;v;skj"..
    I find this is happening to me a lot lately... call the doctors and get that, call the phone company and get that... My response is "Huh?" and they do it again "jkdshv;jhpdmdifjfofnj;vid'n!".. I just had to tell a girl "I didn't understand one word of what you just said, could you please slow down?" I have told them, "Look honey, I am from the SOUTH and down here we talk slow and listen slow, so could you slow down to MY speed?". Anybody else running into that?

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    LOL! Some of my friends do that. It's so annoying.

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    Laura ~ It happens here all the time. I especially hate it when people leave message on the answering machine and rattle off their phone number so quickly that you have to listen to it 3 times to get all the numbers. If you want me to call you back, SLOW DOWN. You know your phone number by heart, but I don't.
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    I've never had that problem.

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    It's usually me talking that fast.
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    Did you ever talk to a very annoyed older lady that told you "Look Honey, I live in the south and you have to talk slower for me to understand you?" LOL! Was that YOU I talked to tonight?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by chocolatepuppy
    It's usually me talking that fast.
    Me too! I don't know why I do it, but I catch myself sometimes and try to slow down. That doesn't always last though. I usually talk fast when I'm nervous - in high school and college anytime I had to do a presentation in front of a class a ten minute speech at home turned into 3.5 minutes

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    I work in Customer/Membership Services and it AMAZES me how some people that supposedly use the phone every day at their jobs are so incredibly stupid about their phone manners, or lack thereof

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    I am from Florida, born and raised and sometimes I feel I am talking too fast. I live in the South but sometimes I think Florida is in a category all it's own with the amount of people that move here from all over. My parents were from the North. Maybe that's why I talk so fast, hearing them.
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    Kuhio- I have that same problem!! I want to leave a voice message that says, "please speak slowly, clearly and into the mouthpiece IF you want your call returned". I have had many people (clients!!) call and say, "Hi, Johanna, this is so and so, call me back, thanks". NO PHONE NUMBER!

    Ack. Speak slowly, and clearly!

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    I'm guilty. I talk fast too.
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    Talking fast is less of a problem for me than the automated answering machines that have 8 or 9 choices---none of which are what I want.

  13. I do much of my work over the phone and get so frustrated by both...."thank you for calling asldjfldjlkjldsjldj." I know it become very rote to answer a phone but what good does it do if the caller cannot understand?

    And "call me" with no phone number or so fast I need to replay over and over getting one number at a time.

    When I leave a message I say my name at the beginning and my number (with area code) twice and my name again at the end.

    I also find amazing how many people rely on auto callback. I use one phone for outgoing calls and another for incoming. When an applicant replies on my outgoing line I know they didn't listen carefully to the message.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mruffruff
    Talking fast is less of a problem for me than the automated answering machines that have 8 or 9 choices---none of which are what I want.
    I hate that too!! At least, sometimes you're lucky enough to be able to get back to the switchboard girl.

    Some english speaking sales person rang a few weeks ago and talked really fast - I said "#&ck off" and hung up.



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