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¿Question #3063?
Randy Cox: Do you have caller ID? If you do, do you sometimes avoid answering calls from people you know?

confusedvicky: Of course. Who doesn't do that?
DopeGhoti: Yes and no, respectively.
Felimid: Yes. Yes.
Woelf: Yes; no, because usually by the time I get to the phone (after almost tripping over cats, children, and toys) there is barely enough time to glance at the ID and answer before the machine picks up.
Spirit of 70: Yes and yes.
Neophyte: Yes
MisterCranky: Watch this space! Some day I may answer more appropriately.
AggieIE: Yes and yes, depending on if I can answer at the time.
Sippi: absolutely. I love the straight to voicemail feature of my cellphone (in conjunction with caller id)
joebelanger: all the time
GSwarthout: Yes and of course, that's the point, isn't it?
gmonk: Yes and yes.
2amp: yes, yes
kathleenryan: yes. yes.
Frubgarde: Yes and Yes. To justify the second point, when the phone rings at 3am on a Saturday morning, it is useful to be able to differentiate between a genuine family emergency and a drunk friend wanting to come round and empty my fridge.
guttedgeek: Erm, yes!
Frankenstein: Isn't that what caller ID is for?
ironsizide: Yup. Oh yeah. Better than an answering machine IMHO.
cgund: all the time
Songlian: Yes, absolutely!
Keonyn: Yes and Yes
DHEK: I don't have caller ID for my house phone but my mobile phone has. And no, I don't avoid calls like that.
aleo09: yes, yes
Der Ubermolch: If the phone rings, I feel compelled to answer it. Even if I know it's someone I don't want to talk to.
aanemesis: Yes. No.
illy: Yes. No.
Kalidor: Yes...sometimes.
BigDLishus: you bet I do.
POvidiusNaso: I don't, but I would. I barely answer calls nowadays out of fear that it's someone I don't want to hear from.
matthewjhoskins: Yes and yes.
StormKnight: I haven't answered your calls, have I?
LordT: Yes twice
mpw182: yes
jtakagi: No, too expensive.
buffalospynovel: Only if I'm in the middle of something, already on the phone or not in the mood to talk on the phone. I spend alot of time on the phone already.
fteplin: Sure, or just postpone the talk for later.
scriptorum: Now I do. Yes, but more often I just use it to take a moment and mentally prepare.
Leo-T: Yes - come'on, we've all done it at one time or another.
Brykovian: Yes on the caller ID ... No on avoiding calls (not yet, anyway).
suncrush: Yes, Yes.
chockle: People I know know I avoid answering their calls sometimes.
Russ G.: Only to prevent interruption of an important game. Otherwise, only to avoid bill collectors.
Mutombo: yes, especially my father-in-law
Shade_Jon: no. yes.
cleavet: No.
vampywife: i do have it, but i don't avoid answering calls from anyone.
scribidinus: Yes and yes.
SkyBry: No. Wish I did, and would answer Yes to second.
kroxldyphivc: yes, and yeah, sometimes
Deeghter: Yes!
consectari: Yes, and all the time!
RyanMC: Yes, yes
Eric Johnson: Of course
Whirlinghurly: yes
rawdawg: yes
bigbadsteve: yes and yes
brainrob: No
Favre4MVP: Yes. No.
jellospike: I don't. I rarely would.
Loquutus: Absolutely.
Recneps: Yes and yes.
DaGen: on my cell, yes.. and all the time :D
Bandit Ripshawd: Nope. Nope,
melissa: Oooh yeah. ^H^H^H I mean, of course not.
Jim_P: Yes... sometimes
Dorque: Of course, that's what it is for.
VikingBerserker: yes
obob: yes. No. But I do answer and immediately hang up on anonymous calls, to keep telemarketers from leaving voicemail
sdownin: Occasionally. If I don't wanna talk to them.
dakarp: On my cell phone. And I almost always answer, unless I am someplace where that is not appropriate.
sourwyrm: yah i screen
dietevil: Yes, and yes
BaSL: yes
CharlieWonka: On my Mobile I have.
tipigi: Yep
skrutsch: No, but sometimes I screen with my answering machine and don't pick up.
Lord_Prussian: It's built in to my cell phone. Yes, sometimes.
der_chad: nope
ValJor: No, I don't have caller id
darthcliff: Not often
AWildEep: Yes, and yes
Cavedog_pdx: Only on my cell phone. I only avoid answering a call if I'm already on the phone or poopin' or something like that.
bjorn: yes and yes
djlg: Yes. Yes.
Windopaene: Isn't that the point of caller ID?
hobbes_inc: yes, that is what it is for
Mike A: No I don't.
Tim Synge: No. N/A.
chaddyboy_2000: Yes, no.
skelebone: My mobile phone does recognize the numbers I have programmed into my address book, but I don't ignore calls
puffinge: yes, oh yea, but not you of course
jttm: Randy, I wasn't avoiding your calls... really....
snoozefest: y; y
heli: n
CortexBomb: No, but I don't have a phone either
CDRodeffer: Yes, and yes.
Dave: No, but we do *always* make them speak to the answering machine.
Spielfreak: no