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by babebridou 4975 days ago
Sometimes you're not calling or SMSing a specific person but rather a place or a community ("Is John with you?", "Is everything alright over there?", etc) Sometimes it's even weirder to have to choose between calling Fred or Julie whenever you want to chat with the couple and don't want or need to show a preference for either of them.

Anyway, we've been there already, and it worked for the most part. We used to have one phone in the kitchen, one in the living room, one in my sister's room and we would all be fighting to not have to be the one to pick it up whenever it rang.

But it worked, and it wasn't exactly "weird" :P