Always being the first person in friend's cellphone address book and getting those voicemails that are just 15 minutes of the sound of someone's pocket

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― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I got one of these last night but now I have just discovered who the MYSTERY ILX CULPRIT was!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i got one of those last night too. it was really sad.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe learn to lock the keypad.

― es hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

oh...i'm sorry caitlin. I hope you feel better now.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I got to hear a little bit of a Radiohead concert via celly-in-pocket once. They were playing "No Surprises".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"WOY! JANET! YOUR PHONE IS ON! JA....JANET!!! (whistle) HEY!!! sorry, not you... JANET!!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I get ass-called all the time.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

caitlin, you have lame friends if YOU are the first in someone's book

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Happens all the time. Most amusing was the sound of 4000 cockneys singing 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' live from my friend's pocket at a West Ham match.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

change your name to Zanna, or better yet Xanadu

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"A" people represent! Let's all put on our A shoes!!!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend actually put some nonexistent number with the title "Aaa" in his cellphone to prevent this.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i put in an aaaaaa too.

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

caitlin, you have lame friends if YOU are the first in someone's book

Maybe she's under a nickname, like "Adorable" or something.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU BASTERDS!

― aaaaaa (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom's pocket main culprit for this.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, I've never had this problem because I never carry my celly in my pocket. Isn't that a hick thing to do?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I get ass-called all the time.

YAY! a new vocab phrase for the day!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

:-)

YES, TOM is terrible for this

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i meant :-(

emoticon typos, feh

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Tuomas where do you keep yours if not one of your pockets?

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

In my bag.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I get these from my landlord, because he's the only one, I guess, who files me under my early-alphabet last name. FX: loud hammering, cursing.

In turn, I think I did this to Ally more than once.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I do this all the time, I have to confess. The first name in my phone book is my friend Abi, who I used to work with. She was in my phone about two months before I was in hers and for much of that time she was convinced she had a pervy phone stalker.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I occasionally get this, which narrows down the culprits to people who don't use my real name...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

One friend of mine changed my name in his phone book to "Sven" to prevent this.

― Allyzay Highlights The Fallacy of Radiohead (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i love getting these.. you get to basically spy on people's lives!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Alix, I must have dialled your number a couple of dozen times, but, hopefully, only actually ass-called you once or twice.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I often get a 10 or so texts from the same person, blank, or with random text such as a '9', in quick succession, I don't think they know it happens. I'm not talking about anyone in particular.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I say often - it's happened twice..

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

AARON = happens all the time. "Hello? Hello?..... Hello?"

The best is when I can eavesdrop on conversations, although it's usually muffled by ass.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Slain by Elf, Muffled by Ass.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

live by the ass, muffled by the ass

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"I really think we should be together. Your ass... it just SPEAKS to me."

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite was when my friend's cellphone malfunctioned in some manner (I think it got wet) and it called me 86 times over the course of the night.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

This sometimes happens to me if the person has me on their recently called list.

I don't like to listen in case I hear them saying 'so I was just talking to Trish. Jesus, she goes on and on, doesn't she?' and then I would hear my mother saying 'yeah, tell me about it'.

I have a rich inner life.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite was when my friend's cellphone malfunctioned in some manner (I think it got wet) and it called me 86 times over the course of the night.

That was your *favourite*?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, Amy.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The first entry in my phone is "A fake name" to prevent such issues to prevent such issues occuring!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I was Adam's mystery culprit last night! I think I called him when I was dancing to MIA or something.

I'm now going to change Adam's entry to ZADAM! Which is like a pretty cool super hero name!

Also Dom, that's genius.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too .. now . Because the second person (formerly the first) is someone that I really don't want to talk to if I don't have to.

xpost

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Five years ago this was a big pain, even if you were just a last dialled number, thankfully people have learnt about key guard, although some had to have it explained very very carefully.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I once got a 15 minute call from my friend Mark which consisted of him chatting to someone else while making an omlette and listening to Toots and the Maytals.

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost, I lock my keys religiously, however occasionally I am drunk!

Also, I think I used to call Ally, but of course Adam is higher on my list now.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Fortunately I, and most of my friends, have a friend called Aileen. So I only get this from her.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to recall Tom's phone's affinity for Alan creating hilarity on at least one occasion, though.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Amy, I have a flip phone now.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Favorite as in most annoying.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, my name isn't Amy.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I can't complain, I'd actually lost my phone that same weekend - the annoying part was when I got the bill.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

AIMEE

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah! Take that, bitches!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a much cooler spelling. I had a crush on an "Aimee" in high school and I know that part of it was the name.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Word.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Aimee is also cool because it's Anouk Aimee's last name!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, so I was going to put a spoof name first in my list, but I sort of like the idea of randomly calling Adam when I'm drunk!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

This happens with my phone a LOT. I have 2 entries aaa and aaab before Anna and she STILL gets phoned all the time by my pocket AND I have the key lock on but it gets unlocked so easily. I wish there was a way to change the key lock to something more complicated because hitting the middle button and * happens too easily.

And the number of times I call Anna by mistake is nothing compared to the 999 calls (which override the key lock so there's nothing you can do about it).

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 27 January 2005 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I put in my own number as "Aaaargh" so that it would dial my own phone and get an obvious busy signal if it did this.

Also, this helps prevent me from forgetting my own phone number.

However, I've run out of memory in my phone and poor Adie must get it now. Better than when the first number in my phone was someone who lived in NYC! I tried to use my phone after a night of clubbing and found the credit utterly drained!

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Thursday, 27 January 2005 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I was on the other side of the scenario Kate describes when I got called in Jordan by someone in Britain.

I knew his company would pay the bill, so I left it off the hook until he hung it up - over 30 minutes, I think.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 27 January 2005 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What, do you all SIT on your phones or something!?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I must admit that much of this tomfoolery happened during the late 90s/early 00s vogue for carpenter pants with those convenient little slots in your trousers to put your mobile in.

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

This happens to me all the time, being Andrew.

Funny story: my mum was having her hair cut, and my sister was over in Italy studying. Mum's mobile accidentally called my sister's from inside her handbag, just when she was telling her hairdresser about my sister's relationship with her boyfriend, etc etc. My sis heard the whole thing and called back with nasty words.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Because of that story any time my girlfriend or I talk about anyone behind their back (which we, err, never do, that is) we compulsively check our phones to see if they've accidentally dialled someone.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha... thats great!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Just chiming in to support all my "A" brothers and sisters, as I too understand their plight.

My problem actually is that with my Nokia phone, the keyguard can be bypassed by press "0" then "8" (which are vertically aligned) and if I have the misfortune of having the "Call" button (also vertically aligned with the two other buttons) pressed, it calls 911.

― alex in montreal, Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit, is *that* what dials 999? My phone decides to do that randomly every now and then and I always wondered why.

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Another annoyed A reprazenting. CarsmileSteve once did this to me. I never told him. I get loads of these (maybe about two a week) but this is because my other half has no idea how to lock his keypad.

Ally C once did this to my house phone (presumably because Ailsa Home is before Ailsa Mobile) and I had to listen to all my pals pissed and having fun on a train back from Edinburgh when I was sitting totally skint in my house. This tied up my house phone for ages and I had no money in my mobile to call any of the rest of the people with him to tell him he was running up a fortune calling me. So, Ally, I never told you this, but, er, sorry. But it serves you right for (1) not having a keypad lock on your old phone (and yes, I know I gave you it, but still...) and (2) going to Edinburgh and having fun without me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Also last week I got a message saying I had two voicemail messages. I was in Spain, and it costs shitloads to call your voicemail on a foreign network, but I figured I would call to see if it was urgent, and it cost me about £6 to listen to my mate Ryan chatting in the pub the night before. Twice.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

heads up, ed used to do this to me all the time

i always thought he was trying to play me some new Stephen Betke tune or something cos it was this rhythmic scratchy sound, but it was just him walking

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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