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Electronics. They're supposed to make our life easier, and for the most part they do just that. I also believe whole-heartedly that they make our lives far busier and we are too available at times. I for one do not want to be available 24/7. There are days when I want to not answer my phone or reply to emails.
But this post is not about cell phones, or computers, or even fancy traveling DVD players. I have no idea why I started this post in such a manner. But oh well. Now you know my opinion on cell phones. You're welcome.
Back in the day, before I had a cell phone as my sole means of communication to the outside world, I had a cordless phone. I received this cordless phone as a Christmas present from Chris during our first Christmas. (Don't be jealous ladies. And no, he's not available. Sorry.) Anyways, I received this cordless phone and promptly hooked it up to the nearest phone jack and talked to my heart's content as I wandered my house free from the restraints of a cord.
This phone was not your average phone though. It had special powers that the typical phone did not have. Yup, you read that right. Special powers.
My phone had the ability to make outbound phone calls when no one was touching the phone. And it had the ability to make these outbound phone calls without me ever being the wiser until I started receiving phone calls back from the recipients of these calls.
One day we even had a knock on the door. That's right, my phone had the ability not only to make outbound calls but to also bring visitors to my home. Oh but this was not your average visitor mind you. We never received pizza delivery or a visit from a long lost friend. Our visitor came knocking at 2am on a Sunday morning. We were on a first name basis with this visitor and saw this visitor almost every week. This visitor just happened to be the off-duty police officer that worked the local bar that we frequented back in our younger days when we could do more than just paint the town beige on a night out.
Did you catch that? Our 2 am visitor was a police officer. And why was this police officer knocking on our door at 2 am? Well, that would be because my cordless phone with the super powers had the ability to dial 911 all by itself. Oh yes it did!
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OMG...hahahahahaha!!! My neice called 911 once and when they called back and asked for an adult, she said NO, she was about 4 yrs old!
That certainly is a special power. LOL
How long did you keep that phone?
Well, I hope you were just sleeping at 2 a.m.! hahaha!
sometimes my phone {cell phone} will butt dial {or purse dial}...luckily it's not calling the fuzz...just random people!!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Holy moly. You have lived such an exciting life.
LOL I don't want that phone ever!!!
I would freak. To funny.
Yikes. Iwould have flipped out!
That's funny now...but I bet it wasn't very funny at 2 in the morning!
That is crazy! Was the call to 911 the last call the phone ever made?
So - did it cost extra for that little artificial intelligence?
Ha! When I lived w/ my best friend, in a shared room in her parents house, our phone was ALWAYS on the floor, so one of us would always step on it when coming in at 3 am trying to be quiet for the other one who was already sleeping. She had programmed all the A,B and C buttons to 911, so EVERY SINGLE TIME one of us stepped on the phone, it called 911. Within seconds, 911 would call back and wake up the whole house. This happened at least 5 times in the year I lived there. Do you know how scary it is for the phone to ring at 3 am? Especially the 1st time, when they say "This is 911, someone just called us from your house"...omg.
I'd be very confused waking up at 2am to the cops at my door, and he was probably more confused with you explaining to him WHO was making the call.
I have a TV that's channel would change if you held pennies in front of it!
Oooh! and I'm doing a Letter of Intent this week! YAY!
And did he believe you when you told him your phone had special powers or did you just blame it on one of the kids?! HAHAHA!!!
Oh man!!!! How funny!
When Cameron was a baby, he accidentlly dialed 911 at around 2a.m. one morning. Yea, we were on a night shift schedule and he was up toddling around with me still... I let him play with the phone and didn't think much of it, til I heard a voice saying "Is everything okay?" I had to do some serious talkign to that officer to convince him that I was HONESTLY okay and I did NOT need any help!
That is too funny. I would totally not know what to do if a police officer showed up on our door at 2am claiming I called 911. That stuff only happens in movies. LOL
And..... the rest of the story? Did the officer believe you? Were you fined, ticketed, taken to jail? What did happen to the phone?
Only this would happen to you. Too funny.
NOOO WAY.. that was creepy.
and the christmas/ he's taken ladies line
soo f unny
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OH NO! That's hilarious (though it probably wasn't at the time)! :)
I think at 2 am I would have handed over the phone to that special visitor and let them figure out why the phone felt there was an emergency. That would have totally freaked me out. As I started reading your post I had a flashback of the days when you would have 10 feet of that curly phone cord just so you could move a little...I used to get so mad at that cord when it would get all tangled up!
That is crazy and yet funny and the same time!!!
O.K. your gonna have to do better to convince me that the phone didn't act up after the nights the town turned beige..... ROFL
He probably thought someone was abusing the other and chickening out on telling him or something! That was the first thing that came to my mind. Either that or you two had a way weird sense or humor! Glad it was neither.
So... what'd the cop do?
And I have been majorly debating whether or not to share my own cop story as a TST... you just might have given me courage, ha ha.
That is just too funny - and it woudl freak me out if a phone did that! And Just Stacey's tv is cracking me up!
Oh no! How long did that phone last? Hoping for a Part II of this story! LOL
so did the phone make its way to the trash bin?
oh no!!!
And at 2 am...nice.
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