Hey - mo-fo, hang up the mo-fo'in' fone!!

The BBQ Pit
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so, today, I note there’s two messages on my voice mail, left in the last 10 mintues, not unusual. I go to play them, I hear "First message, recieved today at 10:03 am from an out side caller at 1-(actual number deleted), totaling Five minutes.
FIve minutes???

ok, so I listen to it. the actual message probably was about 20 seconds "Hi, this is so and so I need you to do such and such, call me at (braniac repeats phone number too quickly for me to write it down, doesn’t know there was a caller ID involved), then failed to hang up the phone.

Apparently, he had guests, ‘cause I heard several different people. Woman : "I don’t know what that mother fucker wanted, it’s like a whore walkin’ around, I’m getting my money, I got the money for fucking him, what’s he gotta, like, fuck this shit,"

other male responds sympathetically: “fuckers”

There were other random words used, I guess, but from the gist of it, I think what happened was some one was less than thrilled with another’s customer service skills, the customer service representative felt they’d complied with industry standards, thus, no refund was, um, forthcoming.

Five minutes.

I’d have just deleted it, but the system makes you listen to the whole thing before you can hear the next message. Makes you listen, like three or four times.
(just wanted to give an alternative thread to the billion and one “I hate the new pay to post system/quitcherbitchin’” threads, not to be confused with the other billion and one “Bush Sux/ vs. Clinton was Sucked” threads)

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Delete it? Honey, you should make it into a .wav file or somethin’, and post it on the Internet. :smiley: “America At Home”.
hey, I’d click on it

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When I first got my cell phone, I got a few calls like this. Except there was no message… just a lot of talking in the background, and one that sounded like they called, put the phone down, and watched TV for a while. I was getting a couple of wrong-number calls as well, so, thinking it was just a mistake, I ignored them until the started getting more frequent.

One day I called the number back to inform the person/s that what they were doing was annoying as fuck. I got a voice mail message, roughly as follows:

“This is 123-4567. If you are trying to reach my son, X, I have taken this phone away from him due to his immature behavior with it. You may communicate with him at school from now on, unless you are A, B, or C, in which case he has been told to not have any contact with you. If you are calling regarding messages left on your own phone, I assure you that the situation has been taken care of and will not occur again. If it does, please call me, Y, at 321-7654 and leave a message.”

I was laughing so hard I couldn’t leave a supportive message. But I did call back so Mr. Kitty could hear it. Gotta love the really proactive parenting style. :smiley:

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I got a call from a cat on my voicemail.

Call display showed it was from a friend’s house. The one very old, and VERY senile cat, will NOT shut up if there is a human present. He meows incessantly . Somehow the beast (or the human) triggered the speed dial on a cell phone. It sounded like he was right beside the microphone, but then he’s also very loud, so I may be wrong about that.

It was about a 45 seconds to a minute of “Mrow? Mrrrrr… Rrrow?.. Mnnnnn…”

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I was listening to a radio talk show one morning when some teenager called from his cell phone hoping to be put on the air. Apparently this was just before his first class of the day and when he realized that he wasn’t going to get on before class started, he put his cell phone in his pocket, forgetting to turn it off. Every ten or fifteen minutes the talk show guy would cut to the line the kid was on and you could hear muffled voices and such. Then the class must have gone on a field trip. You could hear the voices get closer as they got on the bus and then hear the teacher tell the kids how to behave on the trip. This went on for an hour or two, until the talk show was over at 10.

I wonder how long it took until the kid finally turned the phone off and if he told his parents right away about his mistake or waited until they got the bill?

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For a long time, our cat used to check the answering machine for messages. He never passed the messages on, which led to some confusion and anger on the part of my inlaws, who didn’t like answering machines in the first place. We finally caught the cat pawing at the blinking button until it gave up its treasure of recorded human voice. We had to put the answering machine in a drawer after that, and try to remember to check it every now and then.

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my cat used to answer the phone. I didn’t know it until she answered it one time and it was my mom, who told me about it. I’d just find the phone off the hook every now and then. But Mom freaked out and when she finally got in touch with me, she told me that the phone had been answered. I, too, started putting my phone in places where the cat couldnt’ find it.

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I think I burst a blood vessel, trying not to laugh out loud at this one. I KNEW there was a reason I always have a wall hanging answering machine. Thanks for telling me why, Lynn.

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What a great ol’ classic-style Pit thread! Thanks, Wring! :smiley:

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My first cat recognized my voice on the machine when I called home from college, and she pawed at the button so she could hear me. My mom NEVER got my messages. The cat never did it unless I called, because she seemed to think I was inside that little machine when she heard my voice.

After the first semester or so, the cat learned something and would actually paw the button again whenever Mom got home, so Mom knew there was something on the answering machine. :slight_smile: