Where you go to hang out with someone, but they have a super-long phone call from a super-important person, and so they are unable to end the conversation and give their undivided attention to you. If you know the person well enough and are therefore fairly familiar/comfy with their assorted business/family/personal matters, however, this situation can sometimes not be all that bad a thing, since speaking and acting involve two separate and unrelated parts of the brain and are therefore completely different thought-processes, and so you and your friend can still hold hands, cuddle, exchange massages, relax in bed, and even have sex, all while the person is still maintaining his unbroken listening and yackety-yacking into the handset (it helps if he wears a little earpiece/boom-mike headset-attachment that plugs into the phone, since that way he does not have to clutch the phone to his ear with his shoulder, and so he can have both hands/arms completely free to give you whatever physical attention that you two wish to engage in during the visit.
Non-verbal visits can sometimes be almost as enjoyable as hanging out and holding a conversation, plus when you are ready to take off again, you do not actually have to interrupt the person's phone-conversation to verbally speak your farewell; you can just smilingly offer him your hand, and he can then smile/nod affably back at you and companionably pump your hand while he still talks on the phone with his caller, and so in this instance he will consider your "alternative" farewell-gesture to be just as satisfactory as if you'd actually said goodbye in the "usual" way.
by QuacksO October 3, 2017