# I just sent a fax...... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-sent-a-fax/120278 "2002-07-22T21:03:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-sent-a-fax/120278/1 "2002-07-22T21:03:34Z")
…to my left ear. End of the day, rush to get stuff out - mail, faxes, memos and the like. Wasn’t paying attention to the fax number I was dialing, and ended up dialing our office number. So I am standing at the fax machine when I hear the phone ring, just as the fax was connecting - gotta keep an eye on the machine so it will send properly (hit the button when it connects and the fax will go through - hey, it’s an old machine). Choice - let the phone ring or let the fax miss out. Nope, gotta get the phone. So I leap around the desk, grab the phone and start to spit out the company name when… _ **BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!** _ The part of my brain that could still function said out loud: “Expletive, now who the expletive is faxing my left ear, I wish I had an expletiving whistle so I could give them a taste of their own medicine, expletive.” I then noticed the fax had cut off as soon as I slammed down the phone. “…oh, it was me.” I hate when I get faxed in the ear. First time I had ever faxed myself. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-sent-a-fax/120278/2 "2002-07-22T21:18:40Z")
Not to be rude, but BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That’s hilarious! I do hope your hearing wasn’t damaged. \ Don’t tell your coworkers - you’ll never hear the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-sent-a-fax/120278/3 "2002-07-22T21:23:23Z")
_points and laughs!_ ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-sent-a-fax/120278/4 "2002-07-22T21:53:59Z")
Well, I can’t laugh too much. I have checked that fax machines and modems are dialing like they’re supposed to by dialing my phone number at work and picking it up to see if I can hear it try to handshake. At one tech job I had done this so much that [geek mode] a coworker and I used to greet each other in the morning by doing our best to imitate two modems trying to communicate. [/geek mode] ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-sent-a-fax/120278/5 "2002-07-22T21:59:41Z")
:::hangs head in shame::: There was a time when I did work in an office… and I have done this too many times to count. I feel your pain. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-sent-a-fax/120278/6 "2002-07-22T22:02:36Z")
_giggle_ I’ve never done anything like that but I just had to come in here and giggle. Funny 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-sent-a-fax/120278/7 "2002-07-22T22:25:00Z")
Yep the 'ol fax in the ear. Pure pain. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-sent-a-fax/120278/8 "2002-07-23T11:42:37Z")
I get this less often at the new job - the phone and fax number are miles apart digit-wise. Now at my old job, sheesh, I would get a faxed ear at least once a day (not counting dialbacks) 'cuz the phone and fax numbers were sequential: phone = xxx0 fax = xxx1 That’ll teach me to pay attention to what I am doing. At least for a day or two.