How to hang up the phone (instead of dying of boredom on the handset)

Many years ago, when mobile telephony had not yet entered our lives, I had a very unique director who, among other rare skills, had the ability to hang up the phone.

It is not a metaphor. When the

too long or became conflictive or

him

sovereignly, he began to

hysterically

the

against the

and at times put it to his ear and say: "I don't know what's wrong with this phone. I hear fatal, I think it's going to cut. " And it

. Ignorant of the causes, the company's General Services department was amazed and complained about the number of devices that this man, mysteriously, sent each year to the other neighborhood.

Although

has also led to

to cut off conversations that take too long - such as

the sound of

with the voice

or exposing the phone to some

in our environment - the truth is that few of us are capable of doing something like this ( and to do it well, in addition), much less if it is a

, a

, a

, a co-worker ... We can empathy or fear of being considered rude or directly, some manual edges. Indeed, explains the expert

editor of Protocol and Etiquette, in Spain, in general, "when a person is too direct and to the point, it gives us the feeling that he is a bit rude, cold or unfriendly".

The Spanish, kings of the circumlocution

In general, we talk

than reasonable when they put a headset on us - "there are many studies that speak of average durations of

although reality indicates that this is not usually the case," says Redondo - in line with our liking for

until they touch eternity.

The Spaniards, in short, "we are very given to tell stories and

We can say, with exceptions, that we are the kings of the circumlocution", assures the protocol expert.

This way of approaching communication collides with a technology that, in principle, especially in the

should be used for

of information: "As the head of a well-known company said: the telephone is to give

, not to have

. To some extent it should be like that, but the pandemic has changed many of these customs. "

For Redondo, even, the personal calls that are made from the workplace must be very brief, a rule that many habitually skip to the bullfighting.

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In search of help (I confess: I do not know how to hang up, I am the perfect victim of an emotional telephone vampire) I first do a small survey among acquaintances:

How do you

on someone who suffers from verbal incontinence?

"I say that

or that they are waiting for me or that my dinner is burning," says Esperanza, "and sometimes it is true," she clarifies. "I say '

...', I summarize what we have talked about and I end with an 'ok', a 'thank you', a 'ciao' or 'a kiss'", shares Emilio. "Using

... and I'm not worried that they think I'm unpleasant. The phone and WhatsApp are essential," explains Víctor Manuel. "The moment you speak,

in the middle of a word

so it seems that you've run out of battery", Alejo suggests.

In an ideal world, the right thing to do would be for the

to

the call to come from the

.

"But this is not always the case," explains Carlos J. Redondo.

What do we do, then, the potential victims?

Politely use an

to end the call.

According to the expert, the options are endless, from the typical "excuse me, but they call me on the other line" to the no less classic "sorry, we have to leave it, because I have a meeting in five minutes."

Here are the rest of the

that Carlos J. Redondo proposes to cut a telephone conversation without dying, even with regard to the health of our relationships, in the attempt:

"A good option is to ask them to

at a more opportune moment. With a phrase such as 'if you wish, we can continue this conversation at another time ...'".

"Some studies indicate that when you start a sentence with

the other person 'interprets' that you want to end the conversation. Although in practice, at least for me, it has not worked for me."

"There are

all kinds of

: the mobile battery is about to run out; 'I have to answer a lot of

' a visit has been waiting for me for a few minutes'; 'I have to finish a report today ';' we go around the subject and talk another day ... '".

"You just have to put a little

and veracity or authenticity to the excuse so that it does not seem like a lie, even if it is," concludes the protocol expert.

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