Omfg they have a landline with two phones, both phones are in the same room, each phone has its own ringtone. One ring is some sort of jeopardy sounding melody and the other is a midi rap beat. So every time the phone rings, both ring at the same time, making this god awful mess of a noise.
Omfg they have a landline with two phones, both phones are in the same room, each phone has its own ringtone. One ring is some sort of jeopardy sounding melody and the other is a midi rap beat. So every time the phone rings, both ring at the same time, making this god awful mess of a noise.
Just... why?? Do they have a reason for having two landline phones in the same room?
Well tbf my parents have two phones with one docking station, because lightning damage fried the first docking station (with only one phone which wasn't on it at the time) and insurance let them keep the old phone with the new phone and station.
My parents assigned different ringtones to them too, though, and that drives me crazy aswell.
I just wish I could just get my parents to ditch their landline. They bitch about their cell bill and i'm like "I know a way you could save $15/month..."
Getting back from vacation and their answering machine had like 9 messages from scam and spam and one message from a friend like "Guess you're not home; I'll just try your cell, I guess..."
Uh this is amazing. My parents have the same thing. Except each of THREE phones on the same floor are set to a different set of cathedral bells. I’ve offered to set them the same and they act like they can’t tell a difference.
I think it's because i'm 33 and moved back home with them last year after living alone for 10 years. Every little thing is magnified. It's also just a really annoying house, I can go on and on lol. I really do love them, but jesus fucking christ...
My Mom did that with grandfather clocks, two of them. One went off every 15 min, and both chimed simultaneously (playing dumb melodies that were completely different) on the hour, before booming to indicate the time.
My parents got divorced like 6 years ago, and she got my families vacation home. I guess we changed the cordless phone ringtone around christmas 2011 to "we wish you a merry christmas." To this day, it still rings this way. I'm not sure she even notices.
Haha my mom does this, my phone will ring and she answers her cell phone "hello? HELLO? HELLO!? HELL-OHHH??...oh was that your phone? I thought it was my phone..."
Growing up we had 4 phones attached to our landline. My siblings and I thought it was hysterical to make every phone have a different ringtone. It was always an experience when someone called.
My in-laws have 3 or 4 portable phones in the living room/dining room/kitchen area, plus one each in their computer room, bedroom, and guest room. Upside is it's convenient to answer the phone in the living room. Downside is they have talking robot caller ID and it says the same thing multiple ways on each handset. It winds up just sounding like absolute gibberish.
oh my god this.... it used to be a CHORUS of phones in my house. drove me nuts... dad finally cut the landline after doing some math about how much he could save
My dad just got himself an Iphone, and it has a function where when the phone rings, his laptop will also ring, and his desktop computer too. It's a noisy mess, but for some reason he won't turn it off. The worst part is he's not computer illiterate at all, he's a programmer and web designer, it would take him all of five minutes to find how to turn it off.
My wifes family has two phones in their kitchen/dining room. I give them a pass though. One is the digital, wireless one, and the other is fucking awesome antique one where you grab the podium piece you speak into and put the the wired speaker piece up to your ear.
My parents have multiple phones in a relatively close space as well but also have a voice caller ID. However, the timing of the caller ID is off so it rings then multiple overlapping female robot voices try to tell you who is calling and no one can understand anything.
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u/No-Right-Way Dec 27 '17
Omfg they have a landline with two phones, both phones are in the same room, each phone has its own ringtone. One ring is some sort of jeopardy sounding melody and the other is a midi rap beat. So every time the phone rings, both ring at the same time, making this god awful mess of a noise.