Mon, Jul 30, 2007, 10:18am snipped-for-privacy@nc.rr.com (George) doth query: What do you guys do to hear, or see, that the phone is ringing?
Doan gots no steenkin' phone in the shop.
Not 100% accurate. I do hav a el cheapo pre-paid cell phone for emergency use. Carry it in a pants pocket, turned off, unless I desire to use it. $20 for the phone, including charger, about $5-10 a month service. If you think you "need" to know about incoming calls, I go along with the guys who say answering machine - in the house. My last answering machine died and I never replaced it.
The old farmer finally got a phone. His buddy was over playing checkers, when the phone rang. The old farmer just sat there. Finally his buddy asks him if he's going to answer it. The farmer says, "Nope, I got it for my convenience, not for someone else's.".
When I answer my phone, and it's someone I don't know thier voice, I ask, "What you sellin'?". Then I tell them I don't what it, to take my number off their call list, then I hang up. Do you really thinkI I'd want crap calls like that when I'm in my shop?
JOAT I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do them. - Picasso