I also leave for work as soon as my breakfast hits the table.
And I never say goodbye on the phone.
One of my favorite scenes in American Dad is when Stan does this, and Francine calls back and says, 'Bitch, did you just hang up on me?"
The worst part about the first one is that they never bring up the breakfast again and they just make something else for dinner. Like they just threw away hundreds of dollars of food and had no problem with it???
I know of you. When you end a phone conversation you don’t say “goodbye” you just hang up on people after you’ve expressed your last thought.
Never say thanks either.
For business calls, a lot of them do end that way. Especially if I’m talking to someone down the aisle from me. 90% of my work conversations go something like this:
call coworker “Hey, it’s so and so, I’m going to be delayed on site for 20 minutes.”
“Alright, we’ve got a new thing in thirty minutes, so you’re good.”
“I’ll call you if anything changes, but based on what’s going on, I’ll make the thirty minutes.”
“Great, thanks.”
one of you hangs up
“Great, thanks” is the appropriate version of “goodbye”.
Besides, business calls are often harder to end than teenager romance ones.
i love phatic expressions
TIL phatic. nice!
I always though this was how you did it in the USA?!!
This is my mother’s husband on the phone and I find it so rude but just deal with it now.
My favorite is:
Interior, room full of people.
Someone walks in and looks at someone. “We need to speak in private. Give us the room.”
Everyone else leaves.
I’m pretty sure this happens because they don’t want to set up an extra room for filming, but once I started noticing it I can’t unsee it. It makes a little more sense when the person is like the president or whatever, but a lot of times they’re just a manager. In reality they’d just step into another office or the hallway.
Try it, you’ll be a CEO within the week.
It hits different when working remote. Just kick them out of the call lol
Hey Janet, can you hold back for a minute after the call? Thanks for coming everyone, have a great day.
Oof, Janet is staying after the class.
Be the boss and it hits different. I have asked for a room and never had any issues with everyone wanting to leave …
I just assume they write weird behaviors like that to save a few seconds of screen time.
Time is one factor, but mainly to avoid unexciting and unnecessary dialogue.
In real life we have a lot of conversations which are purely transactional and not very fun. Nobody needs to listen to characters on screen going back and forth like “See you tonight” “At the bar?” “Yeah, the bar, 6PM.” “I’ve gotta drop the kids off at 6, can we do 7…?” - It’s boring, and it doesn’t advance the story.
Just cut the conversation short. The audience will quicky see the when and where immediately for themselves when the scene changes to the bar and the guy walks in, “Sorry I’m late, had to drop off the kids.”
Fr this. Like do you people really want to have to sit through every ounce of tedium in your media? Let the writers have their shorthands, please.
Somehow DDG understood my search terms and gave me the correct link when I didn’t even remember the name of the show:
Oh look, there was a fire.
it’s those asides that make the film feel alive though. fleshed out. can’t be the entire dialogue, but if your film is direct A→B→C ect ect ect the characters feel one dimensional.
Ironically a common writing technique is B->C dialog.
Basically cutting out the preamble and post dialog. Most times even in my writing I include “Hello” since that would stand out, but generally get right to the point.
You see this a lot in movies too, if done well it blends in since your scene is focusing on the action and not rambling on.
There are exceptions (teens talking may include a “no you hang up” trope for comedic effect) but that’s used sparingly.
This latest Rom Com is so realistic, but did we have to stop the plot every time a character needed to take a shit?
In movies people never close doors behind themselves.
Or say goodbye on the phone, they just hang up…
Also, your job or daily duties allow you to make intercontinental flights whenever you want and for how long you need.
This really bothered me in the (3rd season of?) Umbrella academy. You two have kids. You are the only parents of your kids, why did you both come on this pointless adventure?!
It’s one of those annoying tropes common to a particular type of American TV show. Another annoying one is when someone says “I can explain” then doesn’t.
OK let’s hangout later.
