swedeace
03-31-2007, 09:25 PM
....just to make sure things were all right? It just happened to me. Let me explain:
I left a friend a voice mail asking if she and her husband wanted to come with me to check out some dancing at this dance studio. I posted about this in a couple of threads already. She called me back just to chit-chat, and she apologized for not getting back to my call. I told her about the dance studio, and she declined. She didn't want to impose on anyone to care for their four-month baby boy, so she said they were just gonna hang out and eat pizza. Then, she asked if I was going, and I said I planned on it.
Suddenly, I hear her husband talking in the background about the pizza. With all that clutter of noise (like something fell on the ground), I couldn't hear what my friend said, so I just waited on the line.
I could hear her and her husband arguing over who burnt the pizza, how her husband dropped some of the pizza on their dog, etc. I couldn't catch every word, but I did catch some words here and there. I have a difficult time hearing a lot of background noise over the phone. Anyway, I stayed on the line for a couple of minutes wondering if my friend was going to return after tending to this "pizza incident." After about a minute, I thought that my friend probably didn't get to hang up her phone and meant to, so I kept staying on the line. Part of me wanted to wait on the line and listen in. I wanted to make sure nothing would happen, abuse-wise, to my friend. You know, I am paranoid because I grew up in a home where my dad physically, mentally, and verbally abused my mom quietly. It was purely domestic violence. No one else knew this. I just wanted to make sure for my friend's sake.
After about four minutes, I hung up the phone. This got me thinking.... Have you ever done this before? Listened in on a phone line after the other person didn't realize they hadn't fully hung up? Would you consider this an invasion or a measure of concern? Your thoughts?
I left a friend a voice mail asking if she and her husband wanted to come with me to check out some dancing at this dance studio. I posted about this in a couple of threads already. She called me back just to chit-chat, and she apologized for not getting back to my call. I told her about the dance studio, and she declined. She didn't want to impose on anyone to care for their four-month baby boy, so she said they were just gonna hang out and eat pizza. Then, she asked if I was going, and I said I planned on it.
Suddenly, I hear her husband talking in the background about the pizza. With all that clutter of noise (like something fell on the ground), I couldn't hear what my friend said, so I just waited on the line.
I could hear her and her husband arguing over who burnt the pizza, how her husband dropped some of the pizza on their dog, etc. I couldn't catch every word, but I did catch some words here and there. I have a difficult time hearing a lot of background noise over the phone. Anyway, I stayed on the line for a couple of minutes wondering if my friend was going to return after tending to this "pizza incident." After about a minute, I thought that my friend probably didn't get to hang up her phone and meant to, so I kept staying on the line. Part of me wanted to wait on the line and listen in. I wanted to make sure nothing would happen, abuse-wise, to my friend. You know, I am paranoid because I grew up in a home where my dad physically, mentally, and verbally abused my mom quietly. It was purely domestic violence. No one else knew this. I just wanted to make sure for my friend's sake.
After about four minutes, I hung up the phone. This got me thinking.... Have you ever done this before? Listened in on a phone line after the other person didn't realize they hadn't fully hung up? Would you consider this an invasion or a measure of concern? Your thoughts?