tangomonster
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Caller ID and Privacy
I don't know if this is the first sign of marital trouble during FIRE (going on almost two years)....
DH and I finally have caller ID since AT and T is giving it to us as a freebie. We've only had it for a few weeks and already we have run into a slight issue. I'm curious to see how y'all feel about this:
If I answer the phone, DH comes in while I'm talking and checks to see what number is on the screen. As was the case before Caller ID, I will always tell him who called after completing the phone call. We have no secrets. There's nothing I'm hiding. But I just find it annoying that he can't wait until I'm done to learn who it was. It's not as if Hillary Clinton was calling to ask her advice about whether she should concede or not! Or that Ed MacMahon is calling to tell us we won Publisher's Clearinghouse---he'd be more apt to be calling to ask us for money to pay down his mortgage!
Before we had it, he did not interrupt me to ask who it was. With caller ID, he is not interrupting per se, but it still doesn't feel right that a call can't be conducted without him knowing who it is as it is happening....
Truly he's a good guy and I know this is a very small problem. He promises he won't do it anymore now that I've told him how it bothers me. Does/would this bother anyone else?
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I don't know if this is the first sign of marital trouble during FIRE (going on almost two years)....
DH and I finally have caller ID since AT and T is giving it to us as a freebie. We've only had it for a few weeks and already we have run into a slight issue. I'm curious to see how y'all feel about this:
If I answer the phone, DH comes in while I'm talking and checks to see what number is on the screen. As was the case before Caller ID, I will always tell him who called after completing the phone call. We have no secrets. There's nothing I'm hiding. But I just find it annoying that he can't wait until I'm done to learn who it was. It's not as if Hillary Clinton was calling to ask her advice about whether she should concede or not! Or that Ed MacMahon is calling to tell us we won Publisher's Clearinghouse---he'd be more apt to be calling to ask us for money to pay down his mortgage!
Before we had it, he did not interrupt me to ask who it was. With caller ID, he is not interrupting per se, but it still doesn't feel right that a call can't be conducted without him knowing who it is as it is happening....
Truly he's a good guy and I know this is a very small problem. He promises he won't do it anymore now that I've told him how it bothers me. Does/would this bother anyone else?
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