So it’s 7:00am and I’m checking my e-mail, and I see “WARNING - Your Inbox if full…” Odd, I think, I should have enough space…nope, I see that there are 19 new messages from the Butt Dialer, taking up a total of about 122 minutes of talk time and about 30MB of space.
I listened to some of this morning’s on a bored whim, and I heard him yelling at his kid(s) and/or wife, minutes of random car sounds, some talk radio show about Obama’s crimes against America, at a McDonald’s drive-up window placing an order (couldn’t hear what, but it sounded like a lot of food), and later I heard him making smacking, slurping, and grunting sounds reminiscent of a high-density hog farm. And yes I even heard him belch.
(I’m guessing his phone is likely in his shirt pocket, if I’m picking things up that clearly, but I’m using the term “butt dialer” loosely here)
Checking my records, I see this is the same Butt Dialer who has been calling me at random times for more than 13 months now. Sometimes he skips a few months, but I can pretty much count on a string of butt dials at least once a quarter. Almost always in the morning, from about 5:00am to noon.
Over the last year I’ve heard him yelling quite a lot at his wife and kids, eating, flushing the toilet, listening to the radio, and talking to people about everything from “Obama is killing American soldiers, there’s blood on his hands, brotha! Blood. On. His. Hands!” to “My cholesterol’s up…300 something” to lengthy discussions about how hot the girls at his daughter’s school are, especially the sitter they use who’s on the “drill team” and how he’d like to “drill” her. :rolleyes: Mercifully, most of the messages are just random ambient noise, but I’ve had hundreds of them so far.
So you might think “well you dumb shit, just phone him back and tell him.” Ah, but I always DO phone him back. I phone, and phone, each time, and NEVER, not once, has he picked up. Instead, it rolls over to a voice mail box which has no name on it, and which has a man’s voice saying “Hello, leave me a message and I’ll call you back.”
Now the next thing you might ask is “well, did you leave him a message?” and the answer is yes, I do every time, explaining the situation, giving him my name and number, and asking him to stop calling me or take me out of his contact list. Politely, because I know he works at a client’s office. Yes, I know exactly where he works, I just don’t know which one of 30+ people there who have my number that it could be. And several times, it tells me “unable to leave a message because the recipient’s voice mail box is full.”
Now some of the more astute may ask “aha, but have you tried a reverse lookup of the number?”, and the answer is “yes, it’s unlisted.” Still others will ask “have you tried hitting ‘0’ to get to his company’s operator?” and the answer is “tried, failed.” Besides it might be his personal phone anyhow.
I guess what steams me most is that after a year of me leaving messages and trying to call him back, I have been unable to stop the butt dialing. He doesn’t answer his phone nor pick up his messages, so the utility of having a mobile phone in the first place is greatly reduced.
Anyone else plagued by butt dialers?
