{"id":365,"date":"2007-08-03T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/03\/cell-phone\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T13:25:00","slug":"cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/03\/cell-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you know me at all – even to just have passed me on the street – you’ll know that I despise cell phones. Last evening, there was an “incident” that I’ll report.<\/p>\n

I had tried to call my mom the night before, but she didn’t answer – so, I left a voice mail. Didn’t hear back from her yesterday, so I tried to call my dad. The first time I tried, nothing happened. Thinking I had mis dialed, I tried again. It rang, went to voice mail and I started to leave my message. In the middle of my speaking, I was interupted by some automated message saying:<\/p>\n

“Your message was not saved because the connection was lost or you were not speaking.”<\/p>\n

Well, excuse me, but I was speaking. So, now I’m cranky. It was followed with:<\/p>\n

“To disconnect, press one. To leave your message, press two”<\/p>\n

So, I hit 2 and started talking. In the middle of my second attempt, the voice interupted me again and said:<\/p>\n

“Are you still there? To disconnect, press one. To leave your message press two.”<\/p>\n

And I’m like, “shut up so I can talk!”<\/p>\n

So, I hit 2 again and got the same message. And then I pressed one and hung up.<\/p>\n

I called my sister to see if there was something up with the folks – she said they were at a Vacation bible school this week. <\/p>\n

I talked to dad later that evening and we had a good laugh at the automated response system.<\/p>\n

that’s it for now… later…<\/p>\n

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If you know me at all – even to just have passed me on the street – you’ll know that I despise cell phones. Last evening, there was an “incident” that I’ll report. I had tried to call my mom the night before, but she didn’t answer – so, I left a voice mail. Didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}