Fayette.Talk

By Becky

September 15, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

Unless someone is dead or your house is on fire, you don’t need to be calling my house after 9:30 pm. My niece (lives in KY) used to call me (collect no less) at 12,1 or 2 in the morning & just want to talk..I would always accept the call, never knowing if something was wrong with my sister..After about 3 times of be hanging up on her, she took the hint…

I don’t have any issues with getting phone calls early in the morning, as I’m usually up by 6:30-7:00..

By Msyvone

September 15, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

10pm-9am is no call zone for me.

By KLK

September 15, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

Business related calls Mon-Friday, no later than 8pm. Telemarketers at no time as we are on the no call list. Personal calls, no later than 10pm. In the a.m., no business calls before 9am weekdays, none on the weekends. Personal calls ok in the a.m. as we are up anyway. On the weekends, no personal calls before 9am unless it is pretty important.

By I work in TV, so...

September 15, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

I wake up at 3:30 a.m. for work, so my cutoff is 6 p.m. Yep, 6 p.m. I’ve got email. Email me.

By Bell Tolls

September 15, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

9:30P - 8:30 A is the no call zone at our house.

By AP

September 15, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

My cutoff is 10pm for us to receive calls. Unfortunately, some of my children’s acquaintances don’t understand. Luckily, their friends do so we don’t get late calls too often. I try not to call other people after 9:30pm unless it is urgent.

By ron

September 15, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

When someone calls me after 8pm,I always call back at 4am to reaffirm what was said.I get very few calls after 8 pm now for some reason.Unknown to me numbers are not answered.

By mamaj

September 15, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

. I take my daughter’s cell phone and cut it off, because I do not trust her to do the same, so if someone calls my house phone after, say 11:PM, something had better be on fire.

By Tracy

September 15, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

The deadline time for making calls from our house is 9:00, unless it’s an emergency. We do have a couple of close relatives that tend to call later. I will usually answer civilly up until 9:30 or so. After that, there’s the “Red Rule” - if you’re not on fire or bleeding severely, you’re open to whatever mood I’m in when I answer.

By Tracy

September 15, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

The deadline time for making calls from our house is 9:00, unless it’s an emergency. We do have a couple of close relatives that tend to call later. I will usually answer civilly up until 9:30 or so. After that, there’s the “Red Rule” - if you’re not on fire or bleeding severely, you’re open to whatever mood I’m in when I answer.

By Mel

September 15, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Ditto, Tracy! My sentiments, exactly! If my Mom or Dad calls between 9-10pm, I won’t wig out. On the other hand, if it’s a middle school girl calling for my 13 yr old son…she’d better be ready to get a quite unfriendly response! We have a 7 yr old who goes to bed at 8pm, so we really try to limit the phone ringing after that time.

By wowupeopleareangry

September 15, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

Some of these comments make me wonder why anyone would call them at all? What sh*&^y attitudes! I will answer civilly up until 9:30? Then what, your true self comes out? And ron, can I assume you are (and have been) single for a loooong time? I hope you are joking, but wow, I can bet few people ever call you more than once (no matter what time of day it is)… As for me, I don’t call past 10 for most of my friends and family, but don’t mind if someone calls me up till 11 or even midnight. Of course, I only have a cellphone, and it is always on vibrate, so once I am in bed, I will not know anyone called until I wake up. It’s a fabulous invention, that vibrate function! I guess I could miss an emergency call in the middle of the night, but hey, I’m not a surgeon or a priest, so even in a life or death situation, I don’t think I could ever do anything I couldn’t do the next morning…

By Tracy

September 15, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

The deadline time for making calls from our house is 9:00, unless it’s an emergency. We do have a couple of close relatives that tend to call later. I will usually answer civilly up until 9:30 or so. After that, there’s the “Red Rule” - if you’re not on fire or bleeding severely, you’re open to whatever mood I’m in when I answer.

By Tracy

September 15, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

The deadline time for making calls from our house is 9:00, unless it’s an emergency. We do have a couple of close relatives that tend to call later. I will usually answer civilly up until 9:30 or so. After that, there’s the “Red Rule” - if you’re not on fire or bleeding severely, you’re open to whatever mood I’m in when I answer.

By yesma

September 15, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

12:00 am is cut off in my house, the only way i allow any calls to go out later than that is if they are drunk dials, which in that case that can continue until 3am Thursday-Saturday. Absolutely no drunk dials allowed Sunday-Wednesday.

By JJ

September 15, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

We don’t have a land line, so it isn’t an issue for us.

My daughter (17) has a cell, and if her friends want to call her until midnight, I don’t have a problem with it. As long as she gets herself up in the mornings, and takes care of responsibilities, I don’t care.

Anyone can call me anytime. I’m not a freak about it. If my friends or family need me, they can call any time. I can go back to sleep, it’s no big deal.

By Belle

September 15, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

No calls after 10 or before 9 in the morning. The only exceptions are dead, bleeding or my niece or nephew. I have a open communication rule with them…no matter what time..they need to talk to me I’m there. It does not happen often but from time to time I’ll get a late night call from one that needs to talk.

By Phil

September 15, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

9:00 o’clock, after that it can just ring.

By John S. Yarbrough Sr

September 15, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

We’re empty nesters now, but our family knows we don’t like calls after 9pm. We have phones in every room, but only the phone in the kitchen rings, but you can hear that anywhere in the house. Before we trundle off to bed at 11:00, I turn that ringer off. The ringer goes back on in the morning when we’re ready to take calls. When our children were growing up, we didn’t allow incoming or outgoing calls after 9pm. One of the keys in making all this work is to return messaged calls. If someone leaves a message and you don’t return the call, the system breaks down.

By Csquared

September 15, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

i’ve got relatives in several different timezones and countries. If I force my brother in Sri Lanka to call during a specific time, he’s calling in the middle of the morning or night for one of us. Most folks that call me know about 11pm, i’m done with you on the phone and also don’t call me before 7am. It’s just a matter of common sense. As with other posters, telemarketers, unknown caller, or NO Info, go straight to the voice-mail.

By JDW

September 15, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

My cut-off is 10 p.m. If you’re stranded on the side of the road, call AAA. If your house is on fire or something to that nature, call 911 because there is nothing I can do…

By ChocoTe

September 15, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

I don’t have a cut off time. I live pretty free and open. I guess growing up in a house where I never got to use the phone as a child, has made me more lax.

By sss

September 15, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

In the US, normally 9:30 PM is about the latest to make or receive calls for me. On the weekend up to midnight.

However, I’ve been spending a lot of time in Africa over the last few years and I now work there full time, and let me just say that things are a lot more flexible time-wise. 1 AM, 5:30 AM, you name the time and I get phone calls then. The flip side is that I don;t really need to worry about when I call someone (I should add that these are close friends, not clients or business calls). I’ve even tested it out before, calling several friends at 2 AM to see how they would react, given that they called me at strange hours. The reaction? A little grogginess but no anger or surprise. One was even awake.. How different customs are….

By ron

September 15, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

Wowupeopleareangry—-For the better part of 35 years the telephone ran Ron’s life.It summoned him to work all hours of the night,day, and Sundays.Part of Ron’s job was to be nice on the phone,and he was.Between the hours of 4am and 8pm Ron is still very nice to talk to.Even after 8pm Ron is nice and he’s especially nice a 4 am when he calls back to confirm what was said after 8.He simply explains that at 8pm his hearing gets impaired and that early morning calls are better for him.He explains that anything being conducted over the phone after 8 will be continued at 4.Some people didn’t believe Ron.They do now.

See,Ron is now retired and doesn’t have his life run by the phone anymore.

By My3Kids

September 15, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Growing up, my parents would allow phone calls until 10 PM for my sister and me. And we pretty much had to be off the phone by 11 PM (for those who would call at 9:59 PM). However, once I learned to re-route calls coming into the house from the phone box, I was on the phone all night and the phone would ring too. However that was after I graduated high school and I would stay up doing homework for college.

Now that I am grown and have my own kids…

None of the girls get many phone calls so I havent set up a cut off time yet. For me…you can call me at anytime, but I don’t hear the phone ring…do not get ticked with me. Yeah, I have had friends get mad at me for not answering at 2 AM.

Most of the the calls in middle of the night have been from friends needing a ride home or an emergency, so I will help if I can.

There is one guy that was trying to reach me when I was seperated from my husband…he kept calling around midnight. I think he finally got the point when I told him off a few times. I told him not to call me after 10ish because the baby usually sleeps with me but he wouldn’t listen. Or someone routinely would call my cell in middle of the night from AZ…I called them back in the middle of the night (their time) and said if you call back I will have you prosecuted. I usually slept through those calls, but after 10 nights straight with no message I was annoyed.

By Becky

September 15, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

I will take phone calls after 9-10, just don’t expect a long chat time..I’m on the phone all day at work & when I get home, I don’t want to talk for hours on end..

My family knows that I will answer any time, so if they need to call, it’s ok..Just about a year ago, my brother in law called me at 1:45am to tell me that he had taken my sister to the emergency room & that she had a brain anyuresym (sp). I never turn my ringer off, due to things like this..

As others have said, I have family in several states & I can allow for the time difference..The problem I have with most of them, is that they are to sorry & lazy to work, therefore thinking that it’s ok to call you (collect) & talk at all hours of the night..

By SharonH

September 15, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

My cutoff is 9 and 9. Anything outside of those hours had better be urgent. I had to set my in-laws straight because they thought it was fine to call any time they wanted to including at 2 AM. Apparently, they thought that if THEY were up and willing to talk, everyone else should be too. They learned differently.

By Evelyn

September 15, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Nine to Nine.

By Hyde

September 15, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

I’m blessed with not getting phone calls, I don’t have too many friends and when someone does call its between 8am to 8pm. I do call my husband at 6am everyday and he will get calls at all hours since he’s available all hours, but we pretty much stick to tradition. 10 to 5 for solicitors or bill collectors, 8 to 8 for anyone else, unless we call them. When my teen finally gets into phones, I’m just getting her a cell so that we can avoid all the arguments I went thru as a teen.

By Pandora

September 15, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

Yes. My cut-off time is 9:00 p.m. I turn off the phone. If it rings I will see the light blinking and I would ONLY answer it if it’s a family member. I used to have a friend that would call my house 11:30 p.m. at night claiming that it’s an emergency and would ALWAYS leave that message on my voice mail and then have the audacity to press the option for emergencies along with the message…just to have me return the darn call and her emergency was that she was upset with her husband because he didn’t empty the trash! That’s crazy…ever since then when we USED to be friends I would NEVER return her calls because they were NEVER important!

By MaggiesDad

September 15, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

I answer family calls anytime, especially my Mom’s calls…however, 8p to 8a is the no call time for everyone else.

By an

September 15, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

9:00pm and 7:30 am (during the school week), 9:00am on the weekends.

By Michelle

September 16, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

It’s never too late or too early to call my home or cell phone…besides you never know what the call is for until you answer.

By Karen

September 16, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

I tried to make a rule and not accept phone calls after 8:00 pm however; I have not been successful in adhering to that rule. I am slowly trying to reinforece the rule.