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An actual phone message just left by one of my bosses:

"Hi Mom, it's J*e P@ller, call me back when you can."

HI MOM, IT'S ME, YOUR SON, WHOSE NAME YOU APPARENTLY DO NOT KNOW.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

maybe "mom" is just a nickname?

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

I wondered that, but no, he was actually calling his very own mother.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

And okay, this really doesn't warrant its own thread, but I'm awfully bored.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

It sounds to me like he had trouble mentally switching from "leaving a work-related message" mode and "leaving a mom-related message" mode. I do it all the time. "Hi, this is Michael Daddino from Mancini...I mean uh this is Michael Daddino, I'd like to make an appointment with Dr. Nabokov for next week."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

It makes total sense to me, I remember having to answer phones all the time with the work related "Hello this is ***, Jamie speaking." And it occasionally carried into my picking up of my mobile phone.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

the guy who sits near me at work always seems to have to tell his wife what his name is, it's quite disconcerting.

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

"it's me, your husband, chief wiggum"

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes when I'm talking to my sister I'll refer to our mother as "my mother." Duh. Who am I talking to? I just let the tape roll and it doesn't matter who the listener is.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/dole.bob.jpg
Hi Bob Dole, Bob Dole is calling for Bob Dole.

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dr. Nabokov?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

An OB/GYN specializing in teenagers.

― Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

Er, "adolescent care".

― Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE MOM WHAT IS J*E T3LL3R MADE? FLANGE IN ME POO.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

FLANGE IN ME POO.

I guess that's what happens when you take "eating pussy" literally.

― Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Friday, 14 July 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

It sounds to me like he had trouble mentally switching from "leaving a work-related message" mode and "leaving a mom-related message" mode.

i used to work in a call center. sometimes i found myself on the phone with my mother saying, 'is there anything else i can help you with?'

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Friday, 14 July 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

WTKFC is Ned drunk?

Possibly due to my new job which requires much in the way of professionalized phone talkin, I've been having the most unpleasant business/personal phone coversation technique accidental crossovers, "totally"s and "no WAY"s to company reps, "sir"s and borderline sarcastic "my PLEASURE"s to damies and god damn it!

― choinklate (nickalicious), Friday, 14 July 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

WTKFC is Ned drunk?

Good lord, no.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 July 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

Bob Vance, Vance refrigeration.

― Looking through pattern skies (papa november), Friday, 14 July 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry Nedric, I just..."flange in me poo"...wait, you weren't the real Garu G all along were you?

― choinklate (nickalicious), Friday, 14 July 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

Amazing Randy was Garu G. Duh.

― Marmot 4-Tay: what those guyz make music 4. (marmotwolof), Friday, 14 July 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

HELLO MR BURNS, THIS IS YOUR MOTHER SPEAKING

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

this is your REAL dad speaking!

who?

yeah

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

played by Greg Evigan

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

I once phoned my dad and said "hi Dad" and he asked "who's this?" which worried me slightly, as he has no other daughter.

Surely everybody has answered the phone at home in a work manner at least once? And also dialled 9 for an outside line when at home (I do that a lot, because the phone on my computer desk is the same as my phone at work and I am simple and easily confused)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

i did that once but only because we were doing the Alan Partridge thing.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

We've just started installing internal-network phones in the homes of work-from-home staff, and *not* having to dial 9 before calling them is greatly confusing some of the people here.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

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