After going round and round with her for about 10 minutes, I hung up the phone.
When I hung up, the homeless guy was standing about five feet away.
As I hung up with the third failed attempt to get a car I felt a light tap on my shoulder.
Literally a second after I hung up the phone, my customer service representative walked into my office for support on a client issue she was dealing with.
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"I hung up on them four or five times before I agreed to sit down and talk with them, " recalls John Sowell, chief executive of North County Vending in Vista, Calif.
"Finally just one day on Skype, everybody else had kind of hung up and I said you know, I think I love you, " she said.
The next morning, I had not got my coat hung up before Conservative MPs were all but queuing up to tell me she was finished.
"Ashley said 'Mom, I'm fine, ' then hung up, " said Debra Summers, Ashley's aunt.
My fellow classmates asked questions, and I hung on every word she spoke as she opened up her feelings about the case to us.
He said, "I can neither confirm or deny, " and he hung up so we knew we were on to something.
"I can think of a number of ways people can get hung up in this debate, " Lugar says.
Reached at his employer, the New Jersey man said: "This is something I'm not willing to talk about, " and then hung up the phone.
When I pressed the point and told her the story, she accused me of harassment and hung up.
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The luxury Madison Avenue storefronts hung polite closure messages but I was surprised to see one with a construction crew outside boarding up all its windows and doors.
So many of our client organizations get hung up in the process of trying to do things better or differently, and I found this advice from Andrew Waldeck about how to innovate well really simple and helpful.
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In an attempt to get a comment, Economic Ministry officials: hung up on me, turned me away at their front door and have refused to answer email questions I submitted three weeks ago.
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