# Voice Mail Karaoke (a.k.a. Abject Humiliation) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voice-mail-karaoke-a-k-a-abject-humiliation/259400 "2004-08-11T19:15:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voice-mail-karaoke-a-k-a-abject-humiliation/259400/21 "2004-08-12T13:11:30Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > šŸ˜ƒ > > Well, I once called my then-girlfriend-now-wife for about 9 minutes, from my trouser pocket. Uh-huh. So those things really DO have minds of their own . . . šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voice-mail-karaoke-a-k-a-abject-humiliation/259400/22 "2004-08-12T13:17:48Z")
Oh and as for the OP, I second the ā€œBravo!ā€ That is a damn good story! Never happened to me, but then my sister and I do voicemail Karaoke to each other on purpose (usually just snippets, not whole songs, and certainly not entire repertoires). These days, what with her 3-year-old twins and all, her snippets are usually Sesame Street classics. I, on the other hand, have been stifling an urge to call her machine and sing, \*Iā€™ve had a hoot-owl howlinā€™ by my window now . . . fer SIX NIIIIIGHTS in a RO-O-OWWWW . . . \* ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voice-mail-karaoke-a-k-a-abject-humiliation/259400/23 "2004-08-12T14:03:52Z")
Any story with a reference to _Dance Party USA_ is hilarious! šŸ†’ I keep my cell phone in my purse and Iā€™m always paranoid about singing along with the car radio after accidentally speed dialing someone. The keyguard is usually turned on, but you never know. Now Iā€™m more afraid than ever that it will happen one of these days. And I would never qualify for _American Idol_ (not just because Iā€™m too old). ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voice-mail-karaoke-a-k-a-abject-humiliation/259400/24 "2004-08-12T18:01:50Z")
Two stories: A friend of mine was at a strip club attending a Bachelor party. He had his cellphone in his back pocket. Apparently several times as he stood up/sat down, he hit the redial key on his phone. Unfortunately, the last number he had called was the brideā€™s parentā€™s house - the groom had needed to speak to his soon-to-be mother-in-law much earlier in the evening. So four or five times throughout the night the m.i.l. answered her phone to hear the cheering, yelling, whooping etc as the groom was ā€œentertainedā€ by the strippers. When I was buying a house, I called a bunch of home inspectors to find one I wanted to use. I left a voicemail for one, and he called me back about 20 minutes later. I was on the phone, so he went to my voicemail. After leaving a nice message, he must have neglected to turn off his phone and then started cursing me out for wasting his time, leaving a number that I didnā€™t answer directly, being a jerk for using voicemail, etc. I called him back, then played his voicemail back for him, then told him I wouldnā€™t be needing his services. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voice-mail-karaoke-a-k-a-abject-humiliation/259400.md?page=1)