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I know of you. When you end a phone conversation you don't say "goodbye" you just hang up on people after you've expressed your last thought.
Never say thanks either.
My wife and I do that. She's a little more abrupt than me though. I often find myself staring at the phone, "Did she hang up?"
OTOH, when she talks to her family back home it sounds like Midwesterners trying to leave the house.
"OK mom, bye bye, I love you!"
"OK bye bye don't forget to <whatever>"
"OK bye bye!"
"OK I love you!"
This is likely to go another stanza. There will also be an extra stanza for each person on the other end.
For business calls, a lot of them do end that way. Especially if I'm talking to someone down the aisle from me. 90% of my work conversations go something like this:
call coworker "Hey, it's so and so, I'm going to be delayed on site for 20 minutes."
"Alright, we've got a new thing in thirty minutes, so you're good."
"I'll call you if anything changes, but based on what's going on, I'll make the thirty minutes."
"Great, thanks."
one of you hangs up
"Great, thanks" is the appropriate version of "goodbye".
Besides, business calls are often harder to end than teenager romance ones.
i love phatic expressions
TIL phatic. nice!
I always though this was how you did it in the USA?!!
This is my mother's husband on the phone and I find it so rude but just deal with it now.