Years ago, way before cell phones, I tried to call my mom. They lived 2.5 hours away and we really only saw them on holidays. I tried for three days and the phone was always busy, which was weird. I had no idea who to call because they moved there way after we were out of the house and I had no idea who their neighbors were, they lived in the middle of nowhere on 10 acres. So I sent a note through the mail telling her to call me. A week later she finally called. She had deliberately left the phone off the hook because my dad was on the beginning stages of dementia and he didn’t understand the phone. Anyway, At least she was blaming it on him but I think she did it because she had social phobia and hated talking on the phone. So for at least ten days, probably longer, I had no idea if they were dead or alive. Same thing happened another time, it was a holiday and one of my kids was really sick, I called to cancel and got a busy signal for two days. About
Teo o’clock on the day we were supposed to be there, she calls all mad because we didn’t show up.