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5. Plan a time where one of you can talk again, or say that you'd
like to talk again sometime. Perhaps you can talk online with
the person.
6. Pause for a brief response and then say goodbye before you
hang up.
7. Here's some examples of good ways to quickly end a
conversation:

 "I'm really sorry, but I have to go, it's dinner time. I'll call you
tomorrow, OK? (pause) Bye!"
 "Sorry got to go, there's someone at the door, bye"
 "Oh my gosh! [Insert name of pet, younger sibling or child here!]
Stop! You're going to kill yourself! Stop! Hold on!" [Hang up] If
they call back later or something tell that the pet/ younger sibling/
child almost fell off the counter, or pulled a bookshelf down or
something similar, but they ended up OK, despite some bruises and
scrapes.
 "Hey, I'm going to have to let you go because I have to get off the
phone."
 "Well I must be running up your bill, so I'll let you get on now,
take care, bye"
8. Here is some examples specifically for mobiles (cells):
 "Oh, I've got to go, my battery/credits about to go, sorry, bye" This
works especially well if you can make your phone beep first to
sound like a battery/credit low warning.
 "Hello? [Pause] Hello? Are you still there? [Pause] I'm sorry, but
all I can hear is a sort of fuzzy noise so I'm going to hang up, bye"
This implies that the signal on your phone has gone and you can't
hear them, remember to ignore everything they say and talk over
them if you want to be convincing.
 Just hang up. As long as you hang up in the middle of your
sentence rather than theirs, they'll assume you were cut off. You
can always say you were going through a tunnel or your battery or
credit run out.

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