People who do laps of the living room when they get a phone call

Bowlardo

GF has just rung her sister in law. She has so far walked around the couch 16 times! it's like a little buzzing bee zipping around the living room.

Do many people suddenly develop an inability to sit still when the are on the phone ?

snubbleste

She's expressing her gratefulness that she possesses legs

Hande hoche!

For some it's the novelty of being able to walk around with the phone, something they may not have been able to do it the past.

Artful_Badger

I dont do it when talking to friends or family but I do when I ring the bank or some office or something. I also pick up and move random things around the place for some reason.

Ruu

You should make a call to your sister or whoever you want really. Make sure you use a corded phone though so you can sit in one place, your gf will go mental!!

Howard Juneau

Trip the bitch
Problem solved!

aujopimur

Did she say bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye when she finished ?.

Fluorescence

I do it too. Dunno why, just can't stop myself. Could be a nervous habit though because I despise chatting on the phone :P

PinkFly

aujopimur wrote: »

Did she say bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye when she finished ?.

Who doesn't?

snubbleste

Maybe she's up the duff and she is trying to tell you this through interpretative dance with the support of the absent sister-in-law?

Ronan|Raven

I would do laps of the county when I'm on the phone only the door is closed... but if it wasn't!

Frosty McSnowballs

PinkFly wrote: »

Who doesn't?

Italians....it's all

Ciao, ciao, ciao, ciao, ciao, ciao, chow!

Muise...

hmmm

*invents step-powered phone battery charger.

Edit: like this - http://www.gizmag.com/mipwr-dynamo-iphone-charging-case/29235/

harney

Bowlardo wrote: »

GF has just rung her sister in law. She has so far walked around the couch 16 times! it's like a little buzzing bee zipping around the living room.

Do many people suddenly develop an inability to sit still when the are on the phone ?

Top up her credit. When she asks why tell her she needs to lose weight and she seems to walk a lot while on the phone.

Post back with pictures of your happy trim gf.

Sound of Silence

I like to pull the phone away from my head, hold it out in front of myself for as long as possible, then return to the conversation and make it seem like I was listening to them the whole time.

That, and walking around the house over and over again, opening cupboards and drumming on table tops.

MadsL

What's the etiquette of having a piss whilst on the phone? I'm quite good at a sneaky piss against the porcelain but have to find the mute function for the flush. *Hello, hello* "sorry keeps cutting out".

Am I doing it right? Or should I let it mellow?

The Backwards Man

MadsL wrote: »

What's the etiquette of having a piss whilst on the phone? I'm quite good at a sneaky piss against the porcelain but have to find the mute function for the flush. *Hello, hello* "sorry keeps cutting out".

Am I doing it right? Or should I let it mellow?

The worst is when someone rings just as you have flushed, so they will hear it when you answer the phone, so you run as far away from the toilet before you answer before the call goes to voicemail.

TheBegotten

I think it's a nervous twitch to distract the inherent creepiness in talking into a plastic box...and then listening to its response.

I can't stand talking on the phone because of the lack of eye-contact, body language, etc. It just seems so unnatural.

--Kaiser--

I can't talk on the phone without walking. At the end of a particularly long phone call I might find myself a mile from my house

MadsL

harney wrote: »

Top up her credit. When she asks why tell her she needs to lose weight and she seems to walk a lot while on the phone.

Post back with pictures of your happy trim gf.

Yeah tried that!

Muise...

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

I can't talk on the phone without walking. At the end of a particularly long phone call I might find myself a mile from my house

do you walk all the time or just when you're speaking? Most pacers I see seem to stop when they're listening. It's a funny little dance.

Mysteriouschic

I prefer to be standing walking when talking on the phone . I usually mainly walk around to talk on the phone if it's like an important phonecall or a call I'm nervous about making.

2Mad2BeMad

i do it, my gf does go mad at me more of a habit then anything else, just cant sit easy, and if something is blocking my way il lean one hand against it for some reason :L i also say bye bye bye bye bye bye bye....... bye take care bye bye bye bye bye......

--Kaiser--

Muise... wrote: »

do you walk all the time or just when you're speaking? Most pacers I see seem to stop when they're listening. It's a funny little dance.

All the time. I sometimes do little dance steps as well or hop around on one foot. Sounds strange now that I say it.....

Jason Todd

Fluorescence wrote: »

I do it too. Dunno why, just can't stop myself. Could be a nervous habit though because I despise chatting on the phone :P

I hate talking on the phone too, but I only pace around when talking to work, or a financial institution or a customer care line etc.

hatrickpatrick

I always pace whilst on the phone, but also I always leave the room when I'm on the phone because IMO it's rude as f*ck to subject people to one end of a conversation. It's wildly annoying and if more people excused themselves when taking phone calls, the world would be a much better place.

EvenOlderTom

Bowlardo wrote: »

Do many people suddenly develop an inability to sit still when the are on the phone ?

I walk around too while on a call. I sit, get up, walk up and down the stairs. I dunno why.

Professey Chin

I always do it when talking on the phone. Go wandering from room to room for no reason

Son Of A Vidic

Bowlardo wrote: »

People who do laps of the living room when they get a phone call

Laps of the sitting room? That's for amateurs. I usually end up doing laps of the house for some reason.

Smidge

Thank god I'm not the only one.
I walk constantly during a phone call, it doesn't matter who I'm speaking with.
Upstairs, bedrooms and sometimes if it's not raining I'll ramble out the back garden:o

TerrorFirmer

A friend of mine is the worst for this. He'll get a phone call while we're playing Xbox in my room, and he'll slowly drift out to the hallway, before making his way to the kitchen.....I was starting to wonder where he was, went looking for him, was in the kitchen and went to the window and saw him standing on the green about 20 metres away.

Another time we were in a restaurant, actually eating, and he gets a phonecall he has to take, ends up walking to the door, then outside, then out of sight, and when I go up to the door wondering where he is after almost 5 minutes, he's actually at the end of the street, barely visible at about 30 meters away. While his food's on the table.

He's very nomadic on the phone.

Vinz Mesrine

Im the same as that, i have to get up and walk while im on the phone, i dont know why. And aswell as that, if i am talking to someone i dont know on the phone i do this weird thing of scratching my head for no reason.

conorhal

I think it's an unconcious expression of your inability to use body language, because your comunicating by phone, the normal physicality of comunication that you express through body language becomes exagerated to compensate.