Listening to Muzak, perhaps
Else clues• Being connected
• Dreaded phone status
• Having to wait
• Hearing music on the phone, perhaps
• In phone limbo
• In telephone limbo
• Like many a phone caller
• Listening to bad music, perhaps
• Listening to music, perhaps
• Listening to Muzak, maybe
• Listening to Muzak, say
• Not active
• Postponed
• Shelved for now
• Suspended
• Suspended for now
• Telephoner's fate
• Temporarily suspended
• Waiting
• Waiting for a party, perhaps
• Waiting for a phone agent
• Waiting for tech support, often
• Waiting to speak to someone, perhaps
• Waiting to talk
• Waiting, in a way
• Waiting, phone in hand