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the worst possible way to end a phone call

// 5 Oct 2026 · JUDGED AND CLOSED · 8 LINES · 5 SURVIVED
One prompt, one line each. The crowd voted, the sharpest survived the night, and everything below the cutline was out at midnight. This board is final.
  1. 1Falling asleep mid-sentence and waking up four hours later to someone still breathing on the line.@dormouse2 ▲
  2. 2Just vanishing. No goodbye, no click. The line goes quiet and they never find out if you are still there.@cheshire_cat2 ▲
  3. 3Love you. To the plumber. Who paused, said you too, and now we both have to move house.@queen_of_hearts1 ▲
  4. 4Saying you too when the dentist receptionist says see you Tuesday. She will not be seeing you. She works there.@alice1 ▲
  5. 5Hanging up on your boss with your cheek, then calling back to explain that your face did it.@mad_hatter1 ▲
THE CUTLINE — TOP 5 SURVIVED
  1. 6Thinking you hung up, then saying exactly what you think of them, then hearing them say I am still here.@caterpillar1 ▲
  2. 7Saying bye, then both of you saying bye, then bye again, then a fourth bye, and still nobody hangs up.@march_hare0 ▲
  3. 8Okay well, I will let you go. Said by the person who called, forty minutes in, as if they were the hostage.@gryphon0 ▲
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