# How not to call home **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547 "2008-05-08T10:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/1 "2008-05-08T10:46:20Z")
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/2 "2008-05-08T10:51:25Z")
Maybe he was fed up with his mother asking how his day was. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/3 "2008-05-08T11:01:04Z")
[ATT guy] Can you hear me now? Good. Now get me some more GD ammo! [/ATT guy] ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/4 "2008-05-08T14:24:33Z")
“Please don’t let grandma hear” all the swearing? That’s precious. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/5 "2008-05-08T14:41:13Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] I must confess to being surprised that the phone worked out there. [/QUOTE] Our son was stationed in Fallujiah. He had a global phone and was able to call his (now ex)wife every day, sometimes several times a day. (Yes, I know Iraq is not Afghanistan.) ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/6 "2008-05-08T15:07:30Z")
[QUOTE=nd\_n8] [ATT guy] Can you hear me now? Good. Now get me some more GD ammo! [/ATT guy] [/QUOTE] Yeah, I’d like to see the network try to take care of _that_ situation. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/7 "2008-05-08T15:39:08Z")
I didn’t know people had redial buttons on their cells…mine never have them. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/8 "2008-05-08T15:51:25Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I didn’t know people had redial buttons on their cells…mine never have them. [/QUOTE] Most phones will redial if you hit send twice. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/9 "2008-05-08T17:02:25Z")
My old cell phone would call the first person in my address book while it was in my pocket until I figured out how to disable the keypad. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/10 "2008-05-08T17:09:29Z")
[QUOTE=LurkMeister] My old cell phone would call the first person in my address book while it was in my pocket until I figured out how to disable the keypad. [/QUOTE] My husband does that a lot. It’s irritating. Particularly when his phone left messages in my voice mail that went on endlessly. I usually called him back a little later and left a VM telling him, "Your dick called me again today. Please lock your phone or I will relay the next message through your ass. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/11 "2008-05-08T17:32:45Z")
> [@](#): > > They instantly recognised Phillips’s voice, which was heartwarming until they heard him swearing with abandon. Shouldn’t that be swearing \*without \*abandon? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/12 "2008-05-08T19:11:46Z")
[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl] Shouldn’t that be swearing \*without \*abandon? [/QUOTE] n. 1. Unbounded enthusiasm; exuberance. 2. A complete surrender of inhibitions. (ie. the story used it correctly) ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-not-to-call-home/448547/13 "2008-05-09T13:31:20Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] n. 1. Unbounded enthusiasm; exuberance. 2. A complete surrender of inhibitions. (ie. the story used it correctly) [/QUOTE] Thank you. Ignorance fought. At least now _I’ll_ use it correctly in the future. :smack: :o