How to Make Up an Excuse to Get Off the Phone

Go outside and ring the doorbell., If you're on your cell phone, take your home phone, and turn the ringer volume up., Start an argument in the background., Use your cell phone to call your home phone and say "I have an incoming call, got to go...

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Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Step 1: Go outside and ring the doorbell.

    Then say "Sorry I really have to go; someone's at the door.

    Bye!" You can also record the doorbell ringing if your phone is not wireless.
  2. Step 2: If you're on your cell phone

    Then say that your home phone is ringing, and that you have to go. , Say, "Hold on." And then yell, "It wasn't me! I didn't eat the last pizza slice, Nancy did!" or something like that.

    Pretend to bicker, then say "Sorry, I have to get off the phone.

    I've been sent to my room" or "I have to stop the kids/siblings from fighting."

    Then hang up. , Say sorry, and then hang up.

    Of course, there is an unspoken expectation that you'll call back afterward, so this can be a rather rude way to ring off if you don't.
  3. Step 3: take your home phone

  4. Step 4: and turn the ringer volume up.

  5. Step 5: Start an argument in the background.

  6. Step 6: Use your cell phone to call your home phone and say "I have an incoming call

  7. Step 7: got to go

  8. Step 8: Tell the person on the other end you need to go to the bathroom right now.

Detailed Guide

Then say "Sorry I really have to go; someone's at the door.

Bye!" You can also record the doorbell ringing if your phone is not wireless.

Then say that your home phone is ringing, and that you have to go. , Say, "Hold on." And then yell, "It wasn't me! I didn't eat the last pizza slice, Nancy did!" or something like that.

Pretend to bicker, then say "Sorry, I have to get off the phone.

I've been sent to my room" or "I have to stop the kids/siblings from fighting."

Then hang up. , Say sorry, and then hang up.

Of course, there is an unspoken expectation that you'll call back afterward, so this can be a rather rude way to ring off if you don't.

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