I left the house to do something related to having a future, and I came back and was feeling pretty good. WIthin 5 minutes of entering the house, my mother started calling me on the intercom feature of the house phone. And kept letting it ring. Like that was going to fix the fact that I wasn't answering the phone. For 30-60 seconds, she just kept letting it ring. As it happens I was doing fun things like changing my clothes and checking my phone for messages and calling back and answering those messages, but none of that matters. Because if I don't answer the phone in the first 10-15 seconds, I'm not answering it. And if you can sit on the phone while it keeps endlessly ringing, nobody's dead and it's not an emergency. 2 minutes later I'm going downstairs to get a glass of water, because no glasses upstairs, and she's in the kitchen on the phone trying to intercom me again. Seriously? It would kill you to either wait, or if you're in such a big hurry, ju...