How to make friends by telephone

The Internet hasn’t always been available and at one point the telephone was the newfangled thingy-ma-bob that people had to figure out how to use. The world woul be a nicer place if we all practiced these phone etiquette tips.

I hate the phone and wish it was dead. I cringe at its every ring and want to smash it from the wall. It looks as though I’m not the only one.