I was really miffed last evening

[debodun]

My phone rang around 6:30 pm just as I was falling asleep. A recorded message from my pharmacy telling about vaccinations that are available by appointment. I was so angry, it took me a couple of hours to fall back asleep. Why can't they call during business hours? I am not interested in shots anyway.

 

[That Lady in PA]

Pharmacies are open until 8 or 9 here, so 6:30 IS business hours.

Why not turn off your phone when you want to nap?

 

[Pinky]

6:30 p.m. is on the early side for bed-time. As suggested, turn off your phone.

 

[debodun]

Tell me how to turn it off.

 

[debodun]

6:30 p.m. is on the early side for bed-time.

I go to bed at 5 pm. Sleep comes when it will.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Tell me how to turn it off.

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Take the receiver off the hook. After awhile, it will make a loud sound to alert you the receiver has been bumped or left off the hook. I don't know about where you live, but the loud sound where I live would stop after about a minute, and then go silent the rest of the night.

 

[Nathan]

Set your notification preferences to 'text me" and switch Mode to "do not disturb".

 

[LoveTulips]

A phone call at 6:30 pm is not late. These are normal business hours. Our pharmacy is open until 9:00 pm. Unplug your phone if you don't want to awakened.

 

[Rakaia]

Tell me how to turn it off.

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Take the mouth piece of the hanger..

 

[Pepper]

You go to bed that early because you are bored, not tired, methinks. I go to bed relatively early for that reason. Bored, no reason not to go to bed.

 

[January]

I agree with others that 6.30 pm is not late for a phone call like that.

The pharmacy isn't to know you go to bed way earlier than the norm.

bit like when we used to work shift work and turned our phones off - we were asleep in the day time but could hardly expect businesses etc to know that.

 

[Ronni]

Calls like that tend to come during the typical dinner hour so that you’re not disturbed during the work day.

 

[TeePee]

My phone rang around 6:30 pm just as I was falling asleep. A recorded message from my pharmacy telling about vaccinations that are available by appointment. I was so angry, it took me a couple of hours to fall back asleep. Why can't they call during business hours? I am not interested in shots anyway.

I remember when working night shift, the scheduler at work would call me all hours of the day to see if I'd work extra, come in early, etc., etc.. It used to be aggravating because if we called them at 2am in the morning, they wouldn't be too happy. It kind of went with the job, but it sure messed up people who worked night shifts sleep.

 

[Fritz]

My phone rang around 6:30 pm just as I was falling asleep. A recorded message from my pharmacy telling about vaccinations that are available by appointment. I was so angry, it took me a couple of hours to fall back asleep. Why can't they call during business hours? I am not interested in shots anyway.

Deb are you not able to turn your ringer off on your phone?

 

[Oldeagle66]

When I don't want the phone to disturb my sleep, I turn down the ringer volume.

 

[Pepper]

Before we had ringers to turn on & off I would just take the phone 'off the hook.'

 

[Sunny]

You can have all sorts of options with a cell phone that you may not have with a land line. For instance, I have my phone ringing preferences set to only ring when the caller is on my "contacts" list. Otherwise their call goes to voice mail immediately. If it's on the level (not someone calling to sell me something, scam me, etc.) they have an opportunity to leave a message, and I can call them back later, if I choose. But blessedly, the phone does not ring.

 

[StarSong]

I was taught the 9-9 rule. Don't make calls before 9 AM or after 9 PM unless it's urgent or you know that person is up and around.

 

[hollydolly]

I just unplug my landline from the router... if I;m going to bed early or expecting not to get up until late

previous to internet days I could just unplug it from the wall.. we couldn't take the handset off because after a few minutes an alarm would sound through the phone to alert us that the phone was off the hook, so it had to be unplugged...

I turn my mobile to silent when I go to bed...

 

[Knight]

Tell me how to turn it off.

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[debodun]

I don't like to turn it off because someone might try to call me with an important message. That happened when my uncle passed. My cousin called at 4 am to tell me.

 

[hollydolly]

I don't like to turn it off because someone might try to call me with an important message. That happened when my uncle passed. My cousin called at 4 am to tell me.

think sensibly about this Deb... How important can any call be to you ..?

What I mean is, with all due respect... .. what use would you be at 4am to a dead cousin?

In reality what emergency do you expect someone to call you about ?

You don't have living parents, siblings or nephews and nieces... ..so really an emergency can wait until 6am the following morning when you turn it back on

 

[HoneyNut]

My phone rang around 6:30 pm just as I was falling asleep. ... it took me a couple of hours to fall back asleep.

I sympathize. I get a daily automated senior call (that if I don't answer after 3 attempts it will contact my daughter etc), and the time I'd chosen used to be perfect but lately I've been waking up early and finally getting back to sleep only to be woken up by the automated call. It is really frustrating (kind of physically painful even if I'm in a nice deep sleep), and today I went online and submitted a request to change the call to later in the day.

Maybe you could ask your pharmacy if there is a way to specify hours not to be called?

 

[Sunny]

Or do you have a friend, neighbor, or relative you could have an agreement with that you would call her by a certain time. Say 10 AM just for example. If she doesn't hear from you every day by that time, she should call you, come to your house, or contact someone who could go and check on you.

I've also heard of services run by local senior organizations that have volunteers who call you every day at the same time. But it's never some ridiculous hour like 4 AM. You could probably request a (reasonable) hour to receive your call.

My own agreement is with my children, and it's fun. We all play Wordle and some of the other cell phone games as soon as convenient in the morning, each day. We post our scores and compare how well we all did. I usually do mine between 8 and 9 AM, and if they haven't heard from me via text, the next step is a text or email from them asking if everything is OK. If I didn't answer that, my son would come over, or call my next door neighbor, who has a key, to come over and check on me. Never happened yet, but it's comforting to know there are safety techniques like that available to us these days.

 

[Kaila]

Deb are you not able to turn your ringer off on your phone?

Yes, there is usually a small switch to move that you'd have to find and then remember to turn back on.

Though perhaps you want it to stay on for some other reason,Deb.

You could request the pharmacy take you off their automated call list;
Unless you want their other calls such as telling you that your script is ready.

If all else fails, with that phone you pictured on this thread;

Pick it up every evening and tell the lady that you're going to bed now,
And say good night to everyone listening in on the line.

When I visited the Catskill Mountains in upstate N.Y. in the 50's as a child, I think everyone in the town was in on the calls.