That digital alarm goes off one more time … the answer to that should be, “and I’ll break it.”
He doesn’t really need a way to say goodbye on the telephone. Ask any of our kids and they’ll tell you: he just hands the thing off to me, saying to them, “Here, talk to Barb …”and walks away. Doesn’t matter if they were in the middle of saying something important, he just stops. Even Big Louie has a better telephone manner.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to continue, but as he says, he doesn’t really know how to end it.
Simple. If you must stop, interrupt with, “Talk to you later. ‘Bye now.”
Of course, you could always drop the phone …
If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, give the podcast a listen.