If I have caller ID on the person I'll yell their name into the phone as a 'Hello' response. Parents I usually says, "What do you want?" Professionally, I just say Hello? Sometimes I just say, "Yellow," then they ask if I said yellow and I say no xD
I always found pressing the green send button was the best way to answer a call.
Hahahaha! Clever clever
At work its the standard business greeting.
At home, I'm usually asleep, because normal people call when the sun is up, and I either don't answer and will call you hours later when I wake up or ill answer and this will happen:
When I was still in the Marines as a Lance stuck on med hold in the company office I'd answer 2/2 E. Co Lcpl _________ how may I help you sir or ma'am lol
Worst experience ever give me Iraq or A'stan or give me death lol
If it's a friend, I won't answer the phone. If, on the off chance, that I do, it's usually "Can I help you?"
I hardly answer the phone without knowing what it's about. I won't answer numbers I don't know, so they have to leave me a voice mail and I'll call back. My friends/family just text/email/BBM me otherwise. I go through about 100, never more than 200 minutes in a month.
When I answer the phone I say, "Hello" depending on if it's a friend or not. Sometimes I get those calls from unwanted people in which I either don't answer at all or when I do answer at all or if I do I say Uh...what do you want?
I very rarely answer the phone. Processing mortgages during the boom did me in on talking on the phone... so I avoid it dearly! But when I do... its usually cause I know who is on the other end and answer, "heyyy, 'insert name' " or "what's up 'insert name'. My husband gets a little pissed that I don't answer the phone often but... oh well... just worry about if I answer YOUR calls dear!
if it's someone i know it's either "what's up _____" or "hey _____" . if it's a number that i don't know it's either "this is jimmy" or "what the F**k do you want?!" lol
If it's a friend or family member I say "yes"
For professional like my doctor I say "Hello"
And when it is someone I know and I am annoyed or mad at them I say "What" or "What do you want"