Your biggest phone boo-boo

xoxyx · 25-07-2011 08:55PM

Back in the olden days, before mobile phones, I was about 13 and desperate for a singing career. I wanted to know how I sounded singing, and my parents weren't around, so I decided to record myself on the main line answering machine, singing along to a song (I think it was a Backstreet Boys one - to add to the shame!).

So, all was fine. Recorded myself, but I deleted the recording, rather than saving it - or so I thought.

Turns out, I didn't sound so great. Left it be and headed up to my room, only to hear this weird, screeching sound coming from downstairs a while later.

Yep, you guessed it. Ended up changing our home answering machine from "You have reached the xoxyxs; please leave a message" to "SHOW ME THE MEAANNING OF BEEEEEING LONELY".

Whoever it was didn't leave a message. They probably never, ever rang us again in in fact!!

xoxyx · 25-07-2011 09:05PM

Actually, that reminds me of another one - this wasn't me now, but a friend in work.

She had been asked by her boss to change his voicemail as he was on holidays. "Hi, you have reached x's voicemail. I'm out of the office from x to z. Please leave a message, etc."

Well, the first time, she got as far as "Hi, you have reached x's voicemail. Please leave a mursege. Ooops, ****." So, she pressed the key to delete and tried again. "Hi, you have reached *giggle* ****." "Hi, you have reached *laugh* ****, feck.", "Hi, you have reached. Please leave a...blugh... Balls, ****, balls". She got it right after a while.

About FIVE hours' later, she got a call from her boss saying, I think you need to change my voicemail. Turns out, about ten different callers, including clients, had heard the entire voicemail - which lasted about 7 minutes, and they'd been sending frantic emails to the boss to let him know ever since.

I just wish to God I had heard the voicemail before it was deleted!!!

tallaghtmick · 25-07-2011 09:29PM

xoxyx wrote: »

Back in the olden days, before mobile phones, I was about 13 and desperate for a singing career. I wanted to know how I sounded singing, and my parents weren't around, so I decided to record myself on the main line answering machine, singing along to a song (I think it was a Backstreet Boys one - to add to the shame!).

So, all was fine. Recorded myself, but I deleted the recording, rather than saving it - or so I thought.

Turns out, I didn't sound so great. Left it be and headed up to my room, only to hear this weird, screeching sound coming from downstairs a while later.

Yep, you guessed it. Ended up changing our home answering machine from "You have reached the xoxyxs; please leave a message" to "SHOW ME THE MEAANNING OF BEEEEEING LONELY".

Whoever it was didn't leave a message. They probably never, ever rang us again in in fact!!

What an epic surname:pac:

Senna · 25-07-2011 09:35PM

Not really phone, but more walkie talkie. I was working in a pub before mobiles were around and the manager had walkie talkies that had a long range so he could keep in contact when he was over the road at his house. One night i was working and he called over with a few of his mates for a beer, as he was leaving he told me he had the walkie talkie with him and he would be only down the road in another pub, so any trouble call him.

A few hours later he contacted me and started chatting sh1te (he was drunk), i was behind the counter but could hardly hear him so he told me to go into the back corridor to get a better signal. He was chatting rubbish and joking about, but that was normal for him, he then started asking about how i got on with Marie (a french girl working in the bar with me) who i fancied. I was well away from the bar so i knew she couldn't hear me, so i proceeded to tell him i was getting knowhere fast and jokingly said i was walking around with a horn all night. He then started asking weirder and weirder questions getting me to say more and more, so i got suspicious, i walked back into the bar and there he was in the middle of the bar with all the locals AND Marie laughing their asses off.

xoxyx · 25-07-2011 11:05PM

tallaghtmick wrote: »

What an epic surname:pac:

Ahem...

Aishae · 25-07-2011 11:34PM

haha walkie talkie story here too - my dad and i were messing with walkie talkies when i was 13 - this was at home and there was a lot of building works in my area back then. at one stage dad whips out his walkie talkie - im in the loo - he says will you hurry the f*ck up in there aishae, i'm dying for a sh!te' (we were always open i guess!)
next thing he hears on the walkie talkie 'here mister, theres a porta potty going free up here if you want, but bring bog roll' - it was bloody builders in the housing area up the road.

Ally Dick · 25-07-2011 11:39PM

I rang my mobile phone about ten times. from my landline phone, one night while very drunk. I had ten missed calls on my mobile the following morning, and a very sore head

jc84 · 25-07-2011 11:45PM

Had my phone in my pocket and was slagging someone off, my phone called the person I was slagging and left a voicemail of the whole thing, unbeknownst to me of course, anyway few days later I called round to the person I was slagging off and had the whole thing played back to me, haha mortified to say the least, to this day I always check my phone before I speak

oconnon9 · 25-07-2011 11:53PM

Ally Dick wrote: »

I rang my mobile phone about ten times. from my landline phone, one night while very drunk. I had ten missed calls on my mobile the following morning, and a very sore head

purity · 26-07-2011 12:21AM

I can recall an incident where I was so pissed off with a friend because she was being a b**ch, so I text another friend saying Rachel was such a B**ch today I hate that girl lately, and the content of that message got a lot worse and so on. Anyhow I sent the message to Rachel and nearly died when I checked my outbox messages.
I was so scared I started having palpitations and was dreading the reply, low and behold she texts back and says number deleted and so is our friendship bye,
That was two years ago and I still haven not heard from her.

Contessa Raven · 26-07-2011 01:12AM

I sent a text that was meant for my boyfriend, to my dad the other night. That was embarrassing! Dad came home from the pub and wouldn't talk to me for a while. Eventually he came into the living room and was like "Well, I got your text. I think it's time we had a chat....." MORTIFIED! :eek::(

I'm 23. No chat is needed.

ringadingding · 26-07-2011 01:19AM

I always get paranoid when slagging someone that the voice activation on my phone has somehow called them upon me mentioning thier name.

Highly unlikely but I still grab my phone in a panic to check.

' George is a right prick ....blah blah blah'
*phone dialling George*

Naomi00 · 26-07-2011 01:27AM

My old phone had 'enter pin' on one button and 'emergency' on the other button when you switched it on.

In the middle of the night I was using my phone as a torch to see around my room and accidently pressed on 'emergency' which called 999. I didn't even know what I did because I was half asleep. Next thing I could hear someone talking, then realised what I did and hung up. I probably should have told them it was a mistake but didn't think of that at the time.

Five minutes later I called them AGAIN but I saw the screen on my phone before they answered and cancelled the call.

pencilsharp · 26-07-2011 03:45AM

My phone number begins with the first two digits being 44. This old bat rings my house about once a weeks, and loads of other old bats too, but this particular one really p!sses me off. She thinks she is ringing an English company called 'Country Collections' which sells the most hideous granny jumpers. I've told them all a zillion times that cos theres a + in fromt of the number it means dial 0044, but anyway the old bats don't understand.

One day I got really p!ssed off with my most regular caller and told her to 'cop on you thick bitch'! Anyway she started complaining about the 'terrible customer service' but still requested to speak to my 'manager' and place an order! So to get some enjoyance out of her stupidity I allowed her to place an order, I took her credit number, home address etc!

She rings once a wk now looking for her order but I play along saying they are still being knitted by hand and it will take a few wks to produce a quality product!!

blaze1 · 26-07-2011 08:37AM

Not a text but an email I sent to a boss once.

Was in early one morning had the usual from the pr1ck giving out about something or other the usual small man syndrome ****e from him.

I typed a mail guess which wan k er is in great form again today and put his name in the address bar instead of a mates.

To late to recall it as he'd already opened it... Q him over at my desk trying to sneak a glance at my mailbox for most of the morning. Email shouldnt be used for personal reasons blah blah blah.

So glad I got out of that kip

Elba101 · 26-07-2011 09:17AM

I was around at my mam and dads one day and my sister was there too. She just got a new car and was showing me a picture of it on her phone. She gave it to my dad, who didn't really know how to use mobile at the time, and he clicked on to the next pic by mistake, which was a topless photo of my sis that she sent to her bf. Awkward.

smash · 26-07-2011 09:36AM

I do know someone who picked up a girl one night and went back to her place, was documenting it all with her camera phone but had no intentions of seeing her again so he dialled her dad and let it record on his voice mail.

7Sins · 26-07-2011 11:13AM

smash wrote: »

I do know someone who picked up a girl one night and went back to her place, was documenting it all with her camera phone but had no intentions of seeing her again so he dialled her dad and let it record on his voice mail.

smash · 26-07-2011 11:20AM

7Sins wrote: »

I know... it's a bit odd to say the least. But he thought it would be funny.

Kevin Duffy · 26-07-2011 11:22AM

smash wrote: »

I do know someone who picked up a girl one night and went back to her place, was documenting it all with her camera phone but had no intentions of seeing her again so he dialled her dad and let it record on his voice mail.

I don't really believe that story, but if that person exists, please tell him I think he's a fúcking toerag and he should be shot with balls of his own shíte.

smash · 26-07-2011 11:27AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

I don't really believe that story, but if that person exists, please tell him I think he's a fúcking toerag and he should be shot with balls of his own shíte.

The guy is a bullsh!tter but still maintained it was true.

bigneacy · 26-07-2011 12:22PM

barbarians wrote: »

Turned the language on my sisters phone to Arabic. She was not happy.

Also another time I knocked the same sister's phone (different phone) into a cup of cold hot chocolate. Phone was fucked

But delicious none the less?

orourkeda wrote: »

Isnt that a backhanded compliment.

Or Forehanded depends on the form i guess :pac:

Apanachi · 26-07-2011 12:23PM

BengaLover wrote: »

When i was a 'yoof' the closest we ever got to sexting was to write 'S.W.A.L.K on the back of an envelope.

hahahaha!!!

"S.W.A.L.K." I had totally forgotten that word (OK so it's an acronym) ever existed

Tarkus · 26-07-2011 02:18PM

Not much for talking on the phone except to my GF at the time. Worked night crew and was woke from a dead sleep by the new boss asking if I could fill in for a sick guy that night.

After groggily agreeing, I did what I normally did at the end of a conversation.

I said...

"Love you, Sweetheart" & hung up.

mikemac · 26-07-2011 02:24PM

It wasn't me but I read it on boards last year

Student house in Dublin and one guy was passed out on the coach.
They texted his parents "help, I'm in trouble" and then put the phone on silent and hid it,oh they thought it was hilarious.

Over 30 missed calls and the parents arrived up as soon as they could from Tipperary.

The students got cautioned by the gardaí later that day

Wasn't funny at all

Columc · 26-07-2011 02:56PM

deathrider wrote: »

Not quite the same thing but-

Years ago when I was living back home, and mobile phones were pretty much unheard of (back in the ice-age), I got a wrong number call on the house phone in the middle of the night saying "Heya, can I get a taxi to <insert name of nightclub here> please?" So I told them there'd be one there in five minutes and hung up- And went back to bed proud as punch.

One of my old friends used to always get my house number mixed up with the local tax crowd whenever he was drinking.

So every few weeks, the phone would ring around 3-3:30 asking for a taxi. My dad would always be up and answer the phone and say "dave you have the wrong number, leave me the **** alone"

languagenerd · 26-07-2011 05:56PM

ringadingding wrote: »

I always get paranoid when slagging someone that the voice activation on my phone has somehow called them upon me mentioning thier name.

Highly unlikely but I still grab my phone in a panic to check.

' George is a right prick ....blah blah blah'
*phone dialling George*

I do that too!!....and my phone doesn't even have voice activation....:o

Karona · 26-07-2011 08:04PM

I was watching Superbad one night on the recommendation of a friend because she said that McLovin' looked like another of our friends.... Watched the movie and text "Holy crap "Johnny" is the spitting image of Mc Lovin'. Are you sure its not his twin brother?" And i sent it to.. you guessed it, "Johnny".

Quick Facepalm happened, had to grab my phone again and send him a message saying "Jesus "Johnny" have you a twin brother in Superbad by any chance"

Still dont think I got away with it.

JBoyle4eva · 26-07-2011 09:57PM

This was about 6 or 7 years ago. I used to work in a video shop and we had a television there. It was a busy night and I remember leaving Big Brother on. At one point, I heard the phone ringing and noticed it was the owner's phone number.

For some unknown reason, probably because the tv distracted me, I picked up the phone:

"Hello, this is Big Brother...."

It was so awkward. My manager gave an awkward "hello...?" over the phone. I'll never live that down

Solnskaya · 26-07-2011 10:21PM

I texted a lad who was working with me one evening to tell him what time to come in at next day, got back the reply "sound, see you in the morning, love you too". Thought to myself "wtf??" Showed the missus, and she was like"You sure this lads alright??" Fast forward to the next morning, and he hops into the van looking sheepish. Cue a curt "howya", me-"howya", then ten minutes of silence. Stopped to get smokes and a coffee and as I got back in, he blurted out-"it was the feckin girlfriend messing there last night right", with a big red face on him. I just pissed myself laughing.

Your biggest phone boo-boo

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