Telephone

**Laura's Babies** · 01-31-2006, 07:08 PM

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?

**Alysser** · 01-31-2006, 07:11 PM

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

**kuhio98** · 01-31-2006, 07:58 PM

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.

**Chilli** · 01-31-2006, 08:08 PM

I've never had that problem.

**chocolatepuppy** · 01-31-2006, 08:28 PM

It's usually me talking that fast.

**Laura's Babies** · 01-31-2006, 08:31 PM

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?!

**JenBKR** · 02-01-2006, 08:21 AM

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