Weird phonecall at work.

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Weird phonecall at work.

Post by Obfleur » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:36 am

So, the phone rang at work and I answered.
A girl asks me "Who's responsible for bla bla bla?"
I say "Well it's this guy, do you want his phonenumber?"
"Yes!"
I give her the number, then she says "Do you know what my phonenumber was when I lived in Malmö?" (Malmö being the city I'm in).
"No" I answer.
Now comes the weird part. She says "Well, it was #####, but don't think you can call it and flirt with me!"
Me "Uhh...?"
"Well thanks, bye!"

Has anyone else had any weird experiences at work?
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Post by Best First » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:44 am

yes, usually of a sarte-seque nausea nature...
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Post by Obfleur » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:49 am

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Post by Pissin' Poonani » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:04 pm

Not a work one, but weird none the less.

I was sat here eating lunch, when about 5 minutes ago I hear a weird noise coming from the kitchen. I assume it's my mobile because it's a message-alert style tone, but it's not one I've got set on my phone. It goes off again, and sure enough when I go into the kitchen my phone is flashing. The reason? Someone has set a reminder for today. The message?

"Steven is a c*nt."

I shall be having words.
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Post by Metal Vendetta » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:20 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote:Not a work one, but weird none the less.

I was sat here eating lunch, when about 5 minutes ago I hear a weird noise coming from the kitchen. I assume it's my mobile because it's a message-alert style tone, but it's not one I've got set on my phone. It goes off again, and sure enough when I go into the kitchen my phone is flashing. The reason? Someone has set a reminder for today. The message?

"Steven is a c*nt."

I shall be having words.
Could be worse, my housemate had a friend with a particularly annoying younger brother (known to all as Runt) who used to delight in tormenting him - any time Ash left his phone lying around he would either change the operating language to the most obscure language he could find on there, or (my personal favourite) he would change every name in the address book to WANKER, so that when Ash got a call it would simply read: "WANKER CALLING".
I would have waited a ******* eternity for this!!!!
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Post by Pissin' Poonani » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:28 pm

Funnily enough, the culprit was my own little brother.

I've informed him that his testes will be receiving a visit from a housebrick, the next time we meet.
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Re: Weird phonecall at work.

Post by Predabot » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:59 pm

Obfleur wrote:So, the phone rang at work and I answered.
A girl asks me "Who's responsible for bla bla bla?"
I say "Well it's this guy, do you want his phonenumber?"
"Yes!"
I give her the number, then she says "Do you know what my phonenumber was when I lived in Malmö?" (Malmö being the city I'm in).
"No" I answer.
Now comes the weird part. She says "Well, it was #####, but don't think you can call it and flirt with me!"
Me "Uhh...?"
"Well thanks, bye!"

Has anyone else had any weird experiences at work?
That's not weird, that's fookin' awesome ace! :eek:

I would have called her, and called her good. ;)

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Re: Weird phonecall at work.

Post by Brendocon » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:03 pm

Predabot wrote:I would have called her, and called her good. ;)
... you caught the part about "what her phone number was when she lived in Malmö", right?

As in it's not her phone number anymore?

You got that, right?
Grrr. Argh.

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Re: Weird phonecall at work.

Post by Pissin' Poonani » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:04 pm

Predabot wrote:
I would have called her, and called her good. ;)
She would have been one lucky, lucky girl.
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Post by Shanti418 » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:21 pm

Predabot wrote:That's not weird, that's fookin' awesome ace! :eek:

I would have called her, and called her good. ;)
Brend wrote:.. you caught the part about "what her phone number was when she lived in Malmö", right?

As in it's not her phone number anymore?

You got that, right?
That's our Predabot! *cue applause sign*
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Post by spiderfrommars » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:24 pm

Flirting on the phone at work is good.

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Post by The Last Autobot » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:18 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:Flirting on the phone at work is good.
Having sex in work is better! :D
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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:42 pm

Having phone sex at work is just unhygenic.
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Post by Shanti418 » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:09 pm

Much less so than having sex with a phone while at work, though.
Best First wrote:I thought we could just meander between making well thought out points, being needlessly immature, provocative and generalist, then veer into caring about constructive debate and make a few valid points, act civil for a bit, then lower the tone again, then act offended when we get called on it, then dictate what it is and isn't worth debating, reinterpret a few of my own posts through a less offensive lens, then jaunt down whatever other path our seemingly volatile mood took us in.

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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:12 pm

Shanti418 wrote:Much less so than having sex with a phone while at work, though.
That was what I was referring to.
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Post by Shanti418 » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:49 pm

Okay, then what about working on a phone while you're having sex?
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Post by The Last Autobot » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:53 pm

Shanti418 wrote:Okay, then what about working on a phone while you're having sex?
Thats Multitasking!

You should get a raise :p
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Post by Shanti418 » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:06 pm

I did get a raise. In my pants!

So bad it's funny, no?
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Post by Legion » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:33 pm

Shanti418 wrote:I did get a raise. In my pants!

So bad it's funny, no?
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Post by sprunkner » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:46 pm

And take Predabot out to poo while you're at it.
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Post by Guest » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:25 pm

A few texts I've received over the course of a month, a month or so ago:
Good 1 my man.here is my no.cheers.KEV.
Followed 3 weeks later by:
Hi crab.can i c u sometime 2day 4some gear.when&were.
Followed a couple of minutes later by:
By the way.its kev.

Quite aside from the fact that I don't know anyone called kev, I've never been called 'crab' (nickname, insult or otherwise), nor do I have nor have I ever had any gear, whatever that entails.


I've half a mind to have 'crab' phone kev sometime and see where the conversation takes 'them'.

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Post by Metal Vendetta » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:27 am

Trust me, "kev" thinks you're "crab", who was some bloke he met in a club who sold him some "gear", but who obviously thought "kev" was an "arse" and gave him what he thought was a random number, but which turned out to be yours. Either that or "crab"'s number differs from yours by a couple of swapped digits or something and "kev" wrote it down wrong.

I'd call him, call a couple of my "better-connected mates" and arrange a "finder's fee".

But that's probably just me.
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Post by Guest » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:36 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:I'd call him, call a couple of my "better-connected mates" and arrange a "finder's fee".

But that's probably just me.
I'd probably shop him to the cops, and wind up out of favour with the filth as it'd transpire that 'kev' is actually an undercover cop himself who was the key to a sting operation upon the real 'crab', who had found 'kev' out and was setting him off on a false trail.

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Post by Yaya » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:47 pm

I was examining this patient one time, and so I asked her how her eyes were doing.

She responded, "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you, it's dark in here."

She was serious.

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Post by Guest » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:53 pm

Yaya wrote:I was examining this patient one time, and so I asked her how her eyes were doing.

She responded, "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you, it's dark in here."

She was serious.

:eyebrow:
It's a condition called synesthesia.

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Post by Aaron Hong » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:54 pm

Rebis wrote:
Yaya wrote:I was examining this patient one time, and so I asked her how her eyes were doing.

She responded, "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you, it's dark in here."

She was serious.

:eyebrow:
It's a condition called synesthesia.
Yeah, but did she come in for that in the first place?

Reminds me of the time I went jogging, and at the end of it, my vision going black and white and the people next to me sounding like they were miles away...
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Post by Guest » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:56 pm

Aaron Hong wrote:
Rebis wrote:It's a condition called synesthesia.
Yeah, but did she come in for that in the first place?
Ah, you know medical facilities. You go in with one problem, and you come out with a completely different one!
Aaron Hong wrote:Reminds me of the time I went jogging, and at the end of it, my vision going black and white and the people next to me sounding like they were miles away...
First and only time jogging in a 'silents' cinema, eh?

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Post by Yaya » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:26 am

Rebis wrote:
Yaya wrote:I was examining this patient one time, and so I asked her how her eyes were doing.

She responded, "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you, it's dark in here."

She was serious.

:eyebrow:
It's a condition called synesthesia.
Yeah, but in her case it was a condition called stupidity.

She was this young women, all bubbly and flirty, trying to act sophisticated. She was speaking without thinking.
"But the Costa story featuring Starscream? Fantastic! This guy is "The One", I just know it, just from these few pages. "--Yaya, who is never wrong.

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Post by sprunkner » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:54 pm

Not sure if I've told this one:

One of the mentally disabled men I used to take care of was schizophrenic. A friend who worked there took him on a walk and asked, "Brandon, are you keeping it real?" Brandon (the schizophrenic) responded, "I'm not a gangster anymore." My friend said, "Brandon, you can keep it real without being a gangster." Brandon shook his head and just at that moment, a man walked by of undetermined ethnicity-- possibly Latino, or maybe just with a good tan-- and Brandon shouted at him "I'M NOT A GANGSTER ANYMORE!"
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