Phones - bah.

I would just like to say that I hate people who like to use the phone.  The reason is that most people I have to deal with who phone me because they like to use the phone, do so because they like to hear the sound of their own voice.  Anything I tell them by phone is immediately forgotten.  So, for me, I have to listen to someone blathering on pointlessly, asking questions to which they don't actually pause long enough for me to make an answer, and then if I do rudely talk over the top of them long enough for some dead air where I give them a useful piece of information - they don't listen.

And people who call me and chew and slurp in my ear while doing all of the above disgust me beyond words.

There.  Now you know.