Too Much Free Time

Too Much Free Time

by Mike Masnick




Fake Calling Your Imaginary Friend

from the the-life-some-people-lead dept

Apparently, the latest trend is making fake phone calls on your mobile phone. It appears that a lot of people do so, often to get them out of embarrassing situations, to give them some sort of cover story for being late or for forgetting something. Yes, in this age of passing the buck and taking no responsibility ever -- the imaginary friend at the end of a fake mobile phone call is now the latest recipient of the blame game. Of course, for the inexperienced fake caller, you need to learn a few of the basics, such as interjecting a reasonable number of "uh huhs" and "ohs" and (this one is important) turning off your phone or actually calling some automated system so that (whoops) your phone doesn't actually ring while you're pretending to be on it.

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  6. Apr 18th, 2005 @ 3:34pm

    psychotics

    by eponymous geek

    I know several psychiatrists that prescribe cell phones or at least earpieces to patients that talk to themselves. There was a story of one man with Turets who was cursing to make a pirate blush and was mistaken for a high-powered CEO type.

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  7. Apr 19th, 2005 @ 1:01am

    What?

    by Trent

    Latest trend? i think this has been around since the invention of the cell phone -- and probably earlier (although faking a carrier pigeon conversation would be quite time consuming). i guess these writers just have to up-sell their articles sometimes (it was amusing, but nothing really new).

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