… ‘long distance’ phone calls were ‘get out of jail free’ excuses/reasons? You can’t even ‘hang up’ on someone in ‘full effect’ … no slamming down of the receiver, no sound of the’ actual disconnect’, no ‘dial tone’, therefore, no shock/horror of being ‘hung up’ on … instead, it is assumed that ‘the call has been dropped’ (crickets) … depriving the ‘other end’ from the full effect of being hung up on. CLICK.
Nikki In a Nutshell 