Good Call

When I was trying to wind up a phone conversation with David I said, "well, you could be the first to put the phone down..." which was promptly greeted with silence, so I pulled the phone away from my ear and and was about to hang up when I saw he was still on the line. Curious, I resumed speaking, saying something about how I thought he'd hung up. Simultaneously realising we were speaking on cell phones we both fumbled a few seconds for words to express the irony, but it was David who first managed to articulate: "We can't say, "put the phone down" (cos I tried that and I could still hear you), nor can we say "hang up" (cos they have nowhere to hang) they're such archaisms. I think the word we're looking for is "end call" (you know the red phone symbol button?)"

Right on Dubs, the modern way to end a call is to simply hit "end call".