Some recent phone oddities with my parents.

1) For a while, my mother would not say hello when she picked up the phone but instead waited for you to say hello first, since that was her method of trying to identify spam calls.

2) One time, my dad answers and then just hangs up when I’m done talking to him without passing the phone along to my mother, and when I call back and ask him to speak to her, he says that she’s in town.