Why ring so early

[PizzaPower]

DM has a habit of this. Phone rang at 8:30, my Mum wanting to wish us a Happy New Year, however we were still in bed, having not got home until 1:30 this morning.

It woke all three of us up, but went to the answer machine before I could get to it. Just managing to doze off again and she rang not 15 minutes later.
My B'day was a Sunday this year and she rang at 7:30 in the bloody morning to wish me happy birthday! Why?!?
It's the same on an evening, which I will admit isn't an issue now. She knows we get in from work and sit down to have tea around six. (We've told her multiple times) However at least twice a week, she rings at bang on six. We just let that one go to the answer machine every single time, but she never gets the hint.
Sorry more a rant than anything, but AIBU?

It is annoying. I remember when my son was just 10 months old and my dad decided to phone at 1am to wish me a happy new year. Of course it woke my son who wouldn't go back to sleep for another 2 hours. He was warned the following year to do it at his peril.

Each year I now tell him I couldn't give a rats arse that it's a new year and it will still be the new year at 10am or 6pm!

MIL will call and call and call if it's not answered. She has a habit of calling just as I dish up dinner and even do saying 'dinners out I have to go m' she keeps rabbiting on.

She also like to call at 12.30 on a weeknight to tell us get her washing machine might be broken, ok but call us when we can come and have a look. Once she called us at 6.40am about some nonsense! Ffs give us peace!

My DD does this, my GD, is often up before six, so, by 7.30, they've been up over an hour. I have to constantly remind her, that I haven't.

Now deceased Mil used to do this. If we didn't answer house phone she would ring dh 's mobile then mine and leave the same message on all 3. Then she would keep ringing all 3 at intervals until someone replied. No idea how to stop it op as nothing we tried worked (even the mouthful of abuse she got when she rang at 6.30 for a chat when we had a 6 week old!), you have my sympathy.

MIL and BIL do this. After years of getting up for FIL when he works shifts MIL wakes at 4 so anything past 7 is midday to her.
BIL and his wife start the day whenever DN does, often 5am so think everyone else is up. They think we are lazy for not being dressed and ready for visitors at 8:30 on a Sunday. They also lose their shit if we ring their house phone after 6PM in case DN is sleeping.

Unplug the phone. Assuming you have mobiles then if it's a real emergency someone can send you a text. My mobile is with me all the time but nearly always on mute so I can see who it is and choose whether I need to answer straight away or leave it.

One day she will be gone and you will long for these phone calls!

On threads with anything to do with irritating parent behaviour, why must someone always trot out the "you'll miss them when they're gone" line? Do we honestly have to put up with shitty/irritating stuff just because the perpetrators will one day be dead?