calling back

[kghayesh]

When someone calls you and you don't catch the phone and you don't answer, do you call him/her back? or does it depend on who the person is? or you you simply don't call back??

I think it's rude not to call someone back, it implicitly means "hey, I know you called but I don't care!"

[richard black]

If someone calls me and doesn't leave a message, I may or may not call back depending on who it is, why I think they're calling and the mood I'm in. After all, if they don't leave a message (my answering machine is always on, picks up after about 15 seconds) it suggests it wasn't important.

Mind you, once there was a call while I was in the bathroom. I emerged too late to catch it, checked the number that had rung, rang it back, got the 'engaged' signal - and by the time I managed to speak to the caller she had found someone else to do the three weeks' work she had wanted to offer me! Just goes to show you should always take the cordless phone into the bathroom.....