# Why is butt-dialing so common with the older generation?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-butt-dialing-so-common-with-the-older-generation/800974>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 7, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-butt-dialing-so-common-with-the-older-generation/800974 "2017-11-07T16:03:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-butt-dialing-so-common-with-the-older-generation/800974/21 "2017-11-08T00:48:48Z")

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> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#):
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> :mad: The most butt-dialing in our family was my son. Who as a teenager kept butt-dialing 911 when he was cutting class and in the park smoking dope with his buddies. You know, at the worst possible time. .

So, did he get busted smoking dope in the park with his buddies?

Don’t leave us a hanging’!

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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-butt-dialing-so-common-with-the-older-generation/800974/22 "2017-11-08T01:08:00Z")

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> [@harmonicamoon](#):
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> So, did he get busted smoking dope in the park with his buddies?
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> Don’t leave us a hanging’!

Spent his entire senior year having to pee in a bottle each week. Uh, yeah. But not because of butt dialing 911, that just led him to throw his phone into the lake. (Once.)

The good part was, he graduated!

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**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-butt-dialing-so-common-with-the-older-generation/800974/23 "2017-11-08T06:19:39Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> This is why I hate cell phones, I realize the convenience and safety and tech-y ness of the thing. The world has gone crazy! I long for the days of being lost and away from any contact for awhile. To look at a person in a mall or airport who is not looking down at their phone. It just ain’t right! I know, I am a dinosaur!

I don’t hate modern phones and I am aware of the revolution they have brought about in people’s life styles but I’ve never liked phones.

Whoever wants to think of me as a dinosaur, I advise them to think again - I’m a shark. Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs. Or trees.

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-butt-dialing-so-common-with-the-older-generation/800974/24 "2017-11-08T06:23:41Z")

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Get off my [del]lawn[/del] phone!

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