Do you say "bye" on the phone?

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I just realized, I rarely say bye on the phone. I had to call and check on an order I placed and the woman said "thank you, have a great day" and I said "thanks you too" and then hung up. With my H, I usually end with "love you too".

I guess I don't say goodbye anymore. Now I wonder if I have been hanging up on people if they took the time to say bye. How do you end your conversations?

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I say "bye."

[countthestars]

I hate when people don't say bye.

[moolarkey]

I pretty much always say bye.

[mbcdefg]

I always say bye.

My dad never did.

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Well crap. Apparently, I am an asshole.

[raangoli]

I say bye, even with MH or my parents. Sometimes my dad says "OK, thank you, bye" and it cracks me up.

[onomatopoeia]

I say bye. DH sometimes just hangs up, it drives me crazy. "Hey can you get eggs?", click.

[aspentosh]

I always do. H rarely does unless he's talking to me because I gave him hell too many times

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I don't know. Probably not. With my mom or H I say "love you" but with work people I probably just say "thanks" and hang up.

[Deleted]

Maybe not? But I always end with at least some form of pleasantry -- it just may be "thank you" or "have a nice day" instead of "good-bye."

My husband says "bye bye" which is... special.

[karinothing]

Dec 4, 2012 12:54:52 GMT -5 countthestars said:

I hate when people don't say bye.

This is drives me nuts that in movies/tv no one says bye on the phone!

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I use "love you" and "bye" interchangeably with my mom, H, and BFFs (which makes up the majority of my phone time). I am always worried I am going to say "love you" instead of "bye" to a client or something.

[darkling_glory]

Dec 4, 2012 13:00:21 GMT -5 v said:

My husband says "bye bye" which is... special.

Recently, I noticed that my mother and all her brothers say "bye-bye"! It cracked me up after I noticed it and then my husband said, "You do it too!"

Ha!

I guess I always say bye or bye-bye.

[Deleted]

I'm an asshole too. I don't say "bye". Usually just "talk to you later," "love you," or "have a great day."

[nannersp]

Dec 4, 2012 13:05:07 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Dec 4, 2012 12:54:52 GMT -5 countthestars said:

I hate when people don't say bye.

This is drives me nuts that in movies/tv no one says bye on the phone!

Me, too!

[KaraOrNot]

I say "bye".

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Dec 4, 2012 12:54:52 GMT -5 countthestars said:

I hate when people don't say bye.

Same here.

Hm, never noticed that about tv/movies. Interesting.

[rosetyler]

I always do. My dad doesn't, which seems odd. Often his last sentence will kind of taper off, then I just hear, "Okay!" and *click*.

[kangaroo11]

I say "love you" or "love you too" to DH and my brother, bye to my parents, and have a nice day or something similar to customer service.

[dexteroni]

Dec 4, 2012 12:54:52 GMT -5 countthestars said:

I hate when people don't say bye.

Me too. Even if I'm saying "love you" or "have a good day" I still say bye. It ends the call. Not saying it is awkward and in some cases comes across as rude.

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Several conversations at work yesterday confirm that I often don't say bye and nobody I work with does either.

But the conversations tend to be along the lines of "Can you head down to my office to talk about the letter?" "Sure, I'll come right down!" I think bye is kind of awkward when you'll see the person 30 seconds later.