On The Phone...Interrupted

K. Why is it that when there are other people in the home, resident or not, human or not, they ignore you until you pick up the phone?

I am sure I was guilty of this as a child, but it drives me 'round the bend and I am not sure how the Conversation Interruption Phenomenon occurs. What I do know is that its very annoying existence rears its ugly head at least 5 times daily. I can be sitting there STARING at whomever is in the room, dancing on the coffee table trying to get the attention of Boo, who is watching Spongebob, or calling all over the house for the dog and what do I get? NADA! But I can pick up the phone and speed dial Time and Weather and BAM, everybody wants something.
Dog wants chew bone, kid wants snack, boyfriend wants remote, "Where-is-the KIIIIITTTTEEENNN MAMA!", you name it.

Now, if it is an important conversation, say, with the Pharmacy about Xanax, or Dish Network because there is noting but snow on the TV screen, then the antics become even more over-the-top, and now THEY are the ones dancing on the coffee table trying to gain a little shred of what's left of my attention span. Thank the Lord women are born with the multi -tasking gene, otherwise everyone else would be totally screwed.

I can't tell you how many times I have had to ask some poor and surely overworked customer service representative from some service I require to please hold while I ask the screaming toddler next to me what she needs so that said Customer Service Rep still has his or her hearing in tact at the end of the day. I am sure they love being asked to hold too, right? Because now I am stealing THEIR job of asking me to hold at length while they "check the computer". Meanwhile my dog just did a cartwheel and my boyfriend is putting silk sweaters in the dryer, just "trying to help". Awesome.

I love the phone but I am only using it while locked in the loo from now on.

Trying to find the headset......