The Perfect Phone Call

Every now and then, I come across newspaper articles which border insanity and at times cross that. A few days back in the TOI, there was an article on what constitutes a perfect phone call. Another reference of the article is here.

The research suggest that an ideal phone call should last 9 minutes and 36 seconds!! It should contain a healthy mix of current affairs, opposite sex, health and such stuff.

Three minutes should be spent catching up with news about family and friends
One minute on personal problems
One minute on work/school
42 seconds on current affairs
24 seconds on the weather
24 seconds on chat about opposite sex
12 seconds, staying quite

Another interesting discovery: One in five people spend the maximum time on the phone talking to their mothers. Even more fantastic is the following:

Only 3 % of people named their father as the person they spent most time on the phone with – because dads hand over the phone to their wives.

My personal probability of mom being at the top of the list, at any point of time depends on the following factors:

• Whether love life exists or not? If it does, whether it is on track or not?
• Exams going on or not? [If yes, frequency of calls to mom increase!]
• Whether my sister is having her exams or not? [Same as above]
  
• Balance in the phone [Lesser the balance, the more missed calls that go home]
• Whether dad has asked me to courier the fee receipt or not? [If yes, DON'T call till you have sent it, which usually is not soon]
• Bank balance and the slope of decrease of the balance [Higher the gradient, higher is the probability that I bypass dad and call mom directly and use the powers vested in her :-) ]
• Frequency of 'achievements' - Perhaps, there is no one who is happier than mom - so makes sense. Marginal benefit fundaes.
  

With dad it is far far simpler:

Dad has a fixed set of questions :

• Wassup?
• Do you need money?
• Why is your CGPA falling every sem?
• Why did you not send the courier yet.. #@$!$!!
• Want to talk to mom?

There have been times when I have finished the above conversation with dad in 7 seconds!! But thanks to the research finding, I am not as guilty anymore - I guess its meant to be that way. Let me not challenge nature! ;)

Since we are talking of phone calls, I leave the reader with the following pic of my dear buddy, Ugri, talking to his then would-be girlfriend and now is girlfriend. This is the wing-phone in our wing and the time would be around 1 AM some August night of 2008. What all people do for love! :-P