Blah. Telephones are probably the scariest thing to me right now. It's ridiculous. If I even type in the number I'll sit there looking at the screen waiting to push call, but too nervous and shaky to even do it. It's not even somebody I know or will meet anytime soon. They're just a random nun at a random Catholic church where I'm supposed to be doing fieldwork.


Ungh.
What the hell.


Can anyone sympathize? I feel totally pointless and lame right now.

I am not quite as bad as you but I am pretty bad about phones too I really hate to have to ever call anyone I don't even order pizza on phone I try to use email any time I can. I am also pretty bad about getting phone calls at work I always make someone else answer phone and only talk if I am needed. So no you are not that wierd atleast to me.

Yes I can deffs sympathize with you. I really don't like to talk on the phone, even with my friend. There really is only one person who I don't mind talking to on the phone, with everyone else I just feel awkward. It's so unnatural, and when neither person has anything to say it is just silence and then I feel like there isn't any point to being on the phone but I'm so afraid to offend someone that I don't want to just hang up... I really hate it.

used 2 not do phones 2 well. until i took that customer service job haha. that cured me
but i rel8. i remember how hard it was 2b like that

I hate talking on the phone too....I try to find another way to talk to someone as much as possible....I always end up saying something stupid or stutter, or act nervous on the phone.....I actually hate making calls more than receiving them because I never really know what to do say when they answer the phone....it's weird.

Being a quiet guy most of my life, I don't have the greatest charisma. It's easy to say something in your head clearly, but I usually trip when I try to say it out loud. Basically, I had a hard time saying what I want to say. I never liked talking on the phone because I had nothing to say. A lot of awkward silences which is much better served in an instant message...

I rarely answer the phone now because it's never for me, I may mistake the person and hang up, or I just get trapped in a survey or talkative relative...

Yeah I hate to answer the phone because I don't want to get stuck in a conversation but I'm so scared to offend someone important that I never just let the machine get it. Gah! I hate that about myself!

I'm more comfortable with phones. It's the face to face that gets me because I feel self conscious and then I know people can see I'm self conscious and then I become more self conscious and wind up making an ass out of myself or saying something silly.

I hate to answer the phone when I'm at home. Especially when it's a friend of my parents or a relative that I don't really have any contact with. It always leads to an extremely awkward conversation, like it's not awkward enough to talk with people on the phone. Sometimes I just let the phone ring. I rarely use my cellphone and people always complaing that I never have it turned on, which is true since I never remember to recharge the batteries ^^

I get annoyed when people call me or when I have to call someone, actually talking on the phone takes practise, before I was so shelterd now I can talk to pretty much anyone, even the police! and rowdy guys, but there's always that annoyance.