@jen_jen wrote:
if you have a cordless phone and want to end a call and hints haven’t worked…quietly head to the front door, open it….reach round and ring the door bell….”Oops got to go…”
Now would I do that? :-
or…..set the kitchen pinger to ring in, say, one minute, and carry on talking till it goes off, then you have to urgently get something out of the oven.
(but won’t people then come around for some of your home cooking, in which case you’ll have to put your coat on?)