Write 1 page with APA style on Mistakes and Violations of Telephone Talk. The longer the call lasted, the stronger became my urge to identify myself and say something to the person I called. Violation 2 Answering the Question How are you? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The reactions to this violation were very similar. Whenever I gave them an earful, they looked very surprised. All of them were clearly not expecting me to give them such a long answer. At first, they tried to look interested, but all of them tried to disrupt me as politely as they could. . Although this is part of my culture, it made me actually realize that people ask the question without being interested in how I really am. It almost made me wonder why we ask that question in the first place, instead of just saying Hello. Violation 3 Walk away from a conversation without excusing yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Most people kept talking to me: they were either asking me where I was going or they were making some kind of ironic remark. Only one person did not say anything at the time and asked me the next day why I walked away without excusing myself. Compared to all other violations, this was the most difficult one, because I felt I was being impolite and disrespectful. It feels bad to just walk away from somebody without excusing yourself or saying anything else because I have been taught otherwise by my parents.