Calling long distance can be a tricky thing to do something's. it can be expensive, hard to hear, and sometimes hard to remember time differences. In an Italian home, you can tell when Italy's being called because you can hear the conversation from three blocks away.For the longest time I couldn't figure out why my grandparents used to yell at the phone. Then as time go on I found out that one relative was hard of hearing so they felt the need to yell. But it still applied to everyone else they talked to as well.
The Italian comedian Joe Avati believes that when they are on the phone they yell in order to make up for the distance. Which in actuality would make the most logical sense if you don't know the anatomy of a phone.
When my mother called England, it was the same way.
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