Does anyone else’s Mum do this when they’re on the phone?

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1. She scribbled that before sniffing the two lines?

2. Drink Corona, or doodle?

   Doodling whilst on the phone has always been a thing.

3. £800 an hour?

4. Im trying to decode this like that shitty scene of sherlock Holmes in his mind palace

5. What else do we do with our hands now there’s no spirally cord to twist, contort and stretch?

6. Lines of cocaine and a bottle of wine?

7. She’s obviously going to the country house ( la quinta)

   In May, either with Tina or a Tuna. There may or not be WiFi

   The cost is £800

   And some lucky blokes getting a nosh.

   She’s also trying out different styles of the letter Y for the ransom note.

8. I love the £800.06 badly written and then followed by £800.00 written with care.

9. I’ve got some amazing little doodles from my late mum from her phone calls, found them in her important filing cabinet, no doubt created while on hold …. mainly teddy bears and dolls, with spikey hair, so cute 🥰

10. I do this too in my telephony job. Some people write notes on the PC, I write like this, cite back to the caller the figures they cited earlier and they say ‘yes, wow you’re organised’ 😂

    I remember looking at a page where I wrote ‘angry transferred to wrong dept’ next to a doodle of Homer Simpson with a mohawk

11. I do that

12. Casually summons Cthulhu in the bottom right. Just another Thursday. Maybe it also likes tuna.

13. I do this!

    I was on hold trying to cancel a home insurance renewal and mindlessly doodled cats, dogs and stick people. My son asked why I drew more cats than dogs. My husband asked why I drew “anatomically correct” stick men and accused me of being obsessed!

    Turns out I put all the legs slightly too high up the stick body so I can see his point…

14. What? Drink Corona?!??!?? Never.

15. Was she ever a receptionist or similar? I’ve always doodled on the phone I got deeply into the habit of writing bits down when I was on reception, to give detailed messages as needed.

    You get so into reflexively writing down what is being said, I’ve found phone notes of mine where I’ve written down my own name because someone said it!

16. I’m not a mum, but I’ve always done this.

17. There always used to be old envelopes and bits of scrap paper next to the landlines when I was growing up. Every one of them was an incomprehensible slurry of notes, numbers, and doodles. This really took me back!

18. I would like to know where you got that bottle of corona from because that’s the real imported stuff. I can only find the brewed under licence stuff brewed in Cardiff, even online and it tastes like complete arse.

19. Those are the scribblings of a madman!

    But who can blame her, I’d lose my mind at £800 for la quinla

20. Yeah she does this all the time.

21. Lol. That’s me and I am a dad!!

22. My mum did back in the 90s. So much so that I started copying her whenever I called my buddy, Graham, from middle school.

23. We used to do this on the wall.

24. My mum doesn’t but I sure do.

25. This is what i do, also. I write down key words and doodles from conversations

26. Ah yes.. the days before we had internet to browse while we talked on the phone. Same as reading the shampoo bottle while you’re on the loo

27. My fiancé does this

28. I do this and I’m a mum.

29. Yeah my mum’s an alcoholic…she drinks all the time…phone or not

30. I doodle quite a bit when I’m on the phone so all my notebooks have little doodles interspersed with random info that I need

31. Yeah, except it’s weed for my mum not corona.

32. Tuna cum £4.75? Not sure on the quantity but that seems cheap

33. I do it, also with added doodles. I have worked a few phone based jobs

34. Hang on, I do this. Am I old now?

35. I do it i also draw things lol also song lyrics too🤣

36. Yep!