text don't call

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• punkwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I was 19, I had friends from high school who were still younger, and one of them was my friend Julie who had helicopter parents (she would have been 17-18). I was doing security at an event where the radio headsets we had were super-shitty, and the guy running security was a dumpster fire on his own. Julie’s parents forbid her from going to the event, and grounded her to her room. Then her dad called the hotel where the event was being held, was told Julie had “run away” to this event, and that I was somehow responsible. Given she was a minor, the event runners were understandably concerned, although they were frustrated that Julie’s dad was unable to describe her in a way that was useful: “Asian, wearing black, or a tee-shirt, or something. Ask Punkie where she is.” So they contacted the head of security to find me on my rounds to see if I knew what this crazy man was talking about. The head of security said “okay” and did nothing.

  At some point, the head of security was fired for a variety of reasons, and this increased the level of miscommunication. Meanwhile, Julie’s dad was calling every few hours, demanding to know where his daughter was. And soon there was a concerted effort to find me, which was complicated because of the communication issues. By the time someone found me and the connection was made, my response of, “I have no idea, Julie said her dad forbid her coming here,” was not what they wanted to hear, and met with skepticism “You’re not hiding her, are you? Like she ran away with you in some tryst? She’s 17 and you’re 19, that could have legal ramifications!” No. We’re platonic friends, I don’t know where she is. if I tried to bonk the poor woman, she’d clobber me.

  Meanwhile, Julie’s dad finds Julie in her bedroom, right where he left her. Julie later told me that she was ignoring her dad calling for her, and didn’t “come downstairs” like he demanded because she assumed it was a trap to get her punished for leaving her bedroom while she was grounded. So naturally, her dad assumed she wasn’t in the house. Because he called for her and she didn’t answer.

  Poor Julie. Her parents were crazy-nuts.

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• ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like the average lemming! One of us!

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  • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have to be careful these day, wouldn’t want bigfoot scam me into signing my car extended warranty.

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• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I could see them doing that just because they were trying to conserve battery power, however, if they were still getting a signal, couldn’t they have still used their map, and thus, weren’t really lost? Or was this in the Dark Ages, before smartphones guided us to the light?

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a pretty good chance they only had 2G. And some carriers who still have 2G have decided to shut down GPRS service, so no internet access.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sometimes places call me and it already has their info despite them not being a contact I have saved. Like they have a name not a number, and even a pfp that isn’t a colored circle with a number or letter in it. If I was lost and got a call from the fire department that said it was the fire department I think I might pick up.

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  • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Caller ID has been around since the 80s.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All I remember from caller ID even through the 90’s with landline phones was it would show you the number unless you had manually saved more info for said number or they paid the phone company to obfuscate it so it would not even show the number. I wasn’t one of those teens that was glued to the phone tho.🤷🏻‍♂️

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  • Mesophar@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tbh if I was lost and I got a call come through, I’d answer regardless of what caller ID said. If they were wasting my time, I’d just hang up.

    Now, at home when I’m safe and everything is fine… I’m sure I’ve missed phone interviews at least once or twice letting voice-mail catch it…

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s an Android system that does this, it’s quite useful actually.

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  me_irl

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