Urgh. Sleep. I miss sleep.

[beccaelizabeth]

Some bastard keeps phoning, leaving a hiss, and hanging up. 08451 420 057. They've been doing it for weeks. And if they never say a word, they will never ever ever ever ever get me to pick up the phone. And if they do get me to pick up the phone I cannot currently think of anything, at all, that would be worth waking me up and waking me up and waking me up for this long.

I know. First world problems. Boo hoo.

But I could do with some actual sleep and instead there's these stupid silent calls.

Also when the first call came this morning I leapt out of bed to get the phone and got a cramp and my leg hurt and it was owie and then it was this stupid silent phone again.

I need sleep, I need a brain, and I need to be able to block this stupid number before it rings me.

*grumpy*



Also today I have Victorian poetry to read and computer games to play. Maybe. IF the desktop computer ever stops saying Windows Update is updating and actually agrees the updates have happened.


ETA: I may or may not have got carried away with the spam deletion. If you left something flattering yet incoherent then it went in the spam can. Properly grammatically incoherent, with no names attached, not really passing for natural language. I get suspicious and make it go away.

Comments

[baronjanus]

Uh, unplug the phone?

[beccaelizabeth]

then people who actually want to phone me can't.
and pretty much everyone who knows my phone number can't contact me other ways, useless at email or something.

[anne_d]

I don't know your phone setup, but could you turn off the ringer and leave it to the answering machine or voicemail? At least that way you wouldn't keep getting woken up.

[beccaelizabeth]

I lack instructions for either phone. The answer machine makes voices out loud anyway. Also I'm scared of pushing buttons on it because it is saving messages from most of the century so far including one from my cousin when he was a new baby and one from grandma who is dead now. I should probably find a way to just record those messages away from the machine.

[baronjanus]

So for eight whole hours people will have to not talk to you. And they will actually have to pick up the phone again later. And you will get to actually sleep.

[shahar-amar.livejournal.com]

Do you mean that person hisses onto the answering maschine? Or do you pick up, say hell and then they hiss and disconnect? Either way here's my way of dealing with someone who phones repeatedly but doesn't talk: when it rings, pick up the phone, but don't say anything. Just wait with the phone near your ear (and away from your mouth and nose) for a minute or two and see what happens. Whether it's a junior prankster or someone with a legitimate reason to call you (but technically inept), they will eventually start talking just to find out what happened to the connection. It doesn't work on everyone, but I got several little phone pranksters to stop annoying me this way.

[beccaelizabeth]

not person hiss, just loud hiss noise.

In order to pick up the phone I'd have to run to it before the machine picks up. Not worth the bother.