The Bro’s Code Guide to: Dropped Call Etiquette
It’s a common situation: you’re on your cel phone talking to a friend. Maybe you’re driving (wearing your headset of course, yeah right) and going through a dead area, or maybe you’re in your office where you get semi-okay reception some of the time. Maybe your network just plain sucks. Whatever the case may be, we’ve all been in the situation where we get disconnected.
In some cases I have gone on talking for minutes before I realized the other person was no longer on the line. I know it’s happened the other way as well. Of course, once you DO realize that the call has been dropped is when the real trouble begins. You start calling your friend, just as he/she is calling you back as well. And what happens?
Straight to voicemail.
“Okay” you say, “this time I’m going to wait for them to call me, that way they get though.” And so a few seconds go by. And then another few seconds. Still no call back.
“Ah, he/she must be waiting for ME to call back!” is what you think, and it’s a pretty valid assumption, and so you dial their number again. Only it just so happens that they came to the same conclusion, waited the same amount of time, and decided to call back at the exact same instant as you. Resulting in…
Straight to voicemail.
This is not an exagerration. This has happened to me multiple times, and I KNOW it has happened to you guys as well. So I am here today to put an end to this silliness with one dropped call guideline to rule them all…
Whoever it is that made the initial call is the person who’s job it is to call back. Period. If I called you and we get disconnected, just hang up and wait. It’s now on ME to call you back. End of story.
Can we all agree on this? Does this seem like something that can work? Whoever called first is the one who calls back in the event of a dropped call?
Are you with me people???
