Nov 18, 2009
How many times has your cell phone embarrassed you?
Surely, everybody’s cell has rung at an inopportune time.
The question is, did you learn your lesson, or are you continually surprised?
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And, how did it embarrass you?
For my text messaging service, my phone moos (like a cow).
One day at DG’s office, I had the volume up very loud.
Quite embarrassing.
It’s never happened to me. Of course, I don’t yet have a cell phone and do not consider myself “foolish” or “credit challeneged.”
The ringing of my cellphone has always annoyed me, so I just keep it on vibrate (and ignore it, when it’s not convenient to answer).
I’m the exact same way. I don’t even know what my default ringtone sounds like.
Same here. I’m not really much of a phone-talker so my phone functions more for Internet connection…keeping up with blogs, Twitter, and searching daily deals :). Maybe I should just get a Touch… But then I couldn’t talk to my grandmother…. Nevermind.
+ 1 for always leaving it on vibrate. Of course, women often keep their phones in their purses so that may not be an option for them if they can’t detect the vibration from afar.
Ditto. Semper vibrato.
Well said!
I do the same.
I also keep mine on vibrate all the time.
At my grandfather’s funeral back in May, the preacher was preaching and his cell phone rang in the middle of what he was saying. He pulled it out of his jacket, turned it off, and reminded others to silence their cell phones. He then went on like nothing ever happened. Smooth.
Worst embarrassment was a call made accidentally, not one received. Can’t tell you about it or I’d be in trouble again.
I was on “an important donor call” at a previous employer with the Senior VP for Development (my boss) when my wife called.
I answered it.
The VP wasn’t too happy, especially when I told him, after the meeting, that if she called again I would answer it again.
The donor didn’t seem to care.
My phone rang during a Consistory meeting once. I looked and it was my wife who was very pregnant at the time. Knowing she knew I was in the meeting I assumed it was urgent so I excused myself and took the call.
She said, “Um, do you think on your way home you could go by McD and get me a hot fudge sundae?”
I learned my lesson and have not impregnated her since.
nice.
haha. hilarious. i have done that to my husband while he was in class, except i asked for french fries also.
I would like to nominate this as the funniest comment I have ever read on any blog. I had to go get my husband and read it to him, and he belly laughed also.
ALMOST embarassing….luckily my children have only called family members. They find my phone and get to pushing random buttons and end up calling someone. The latest–I woke up earlier than usual to the sound of my 3 yr old daughter talking and talking, realized it sounded too good to be pretend play, ran downstairs and she was sitting on the couch with my phone. She had called my brother and had woken him up really early! Thank goodness it wasn’t someone else! :) Instances like that have happened quite often, but only to family members. I think I have a cell phone guardian angel.
it happens all the time. i usually dont feel my phone vibrating so i turn the ringer on and forget to turn it off for meetings, church, etc. many years ago a friend had a sony erricson phone that automatically switched to vibrate when you were in a meeting (it synched with your calendar.) why is this not standard on every phone? they all have calendar functions now…
I volunteer in the school library, which is shared with a classroom. I always turn my phone on vibrate when I go in. Except for the one day when they were doing emergency drills. An intruder alert drill came up, and as soon as the teacher managed to get all the kids huddled on the floor around my feet and nice and quiet, my cell phone started ringing. Took me a while to get at it and shut it up, too. That started the giggles going pretty handily.
I hate my cellphone. I put it into airplane mode as often as possible.
The worst ever was when I was photographing a Banner of Truth ministers conference and was standing 20 feet from Derek Thomas and my phone went off full blast. Brilliant, a room full of stiff Presbies and Reformed guys listening to Derek Thomas get interrupted by the photographer’s cellphone.
Subsequently, I learned to leave my phone at home as often as possible or just shut it off.
I once had my business partner call during a meeting with the City Manager. The ring tone: The Imperial March from Star Wars at high volume. Lesson learned.
None for me yet, but my husband and I were on worship team once and he had his iphone in his pocket, right in front of the guitar mic. During prayer, it rang, VERY LOUDLY for all the church to hear. Needless to say, we smiled a lot, rather sheepishly, for the tithes and offerings music.
Lets just say – I’m lucky my wife was running late to the altar!
Everyone was still talking so no one noticed.
I leave my phone on vibrate, but if I hit the buttons on the outside just right, it goes into the voice recognition mode. When that happens, a lady’s voice comes on and starts asking for the command. One of the first times it happened, I had no idea what it was. I’ve never used that function. So I was sitting in class and the way my pants bunched up turned the feature on and a lady starts talking. I am certain it is not me because I have my phone on silent. Everyone starts looking around and start coming to the conclusion that it is my phone. Lo and Behold, it was. I haven’t been able to figure out how to disable that feature…
That happened to my husband during church. “Please say a command.” Yikes…
My Motorola phone does the same thing. I have not figured out how to disable that feature yet, but I have figured out how to lock the exterior keys (including the one that activates the voice-recognition command system). Unfortunately, the disabling becomes disabled whenever you open the phone, and so I rarely remember to re-enable the disabling. That annoying lady’s voice did once begin speaking once during a meeting with a customer, but it went over without much fuss.
I leave mine on “vibrate” too. And in my pocket.
I react with a big startle when my pocket starts to vibrate though.
So it is pretty obivous.
One of the ministers at FPC Jackson had his cell ring a few Wednesdays ago just before he began the opening prayer. He is like 80. I thought it was awesome. And he was so gracious. I always remember to put phone on silent.? Are we judging those who don’t? My husband is the guy whose cell phone rings at the wrong times. But he is weird abd spontaneous and cool and forgetful about the details. We live in a country where most people have cell phones. We are human beings. Massive fail. Sometimes the phones ring at the wrong time. Get over it.
much needed.
My wife and I used to dirty look those at church that did that until hers went off one sunday and she couldn’t find it in her purse. Longest 30 seconds of my life.
Count us as lousy hypocrites. We don’t do that anymore.
We have a “cell phones off during church services” policy (not enforced), and I find it very amusing that 9 times out of 10, it is an “older” person’s phone that rings during the service. Not because they are the primary carriers of cell phones or get the most calls, mind you…
I have an alarm set on my phone to go off at 4:50pm every day so that I know to wrap up my work and go home. And the alarm tone is a clip from a Norma Jean song…
Last week, I was attending the Acts 1:11 Conference for school credit and was taking part in a small Q&A with Danny Akin, Jerry Vines, Richard Land, etc. in the room. Despite my phone being silenced, ridiculous hardcore music rang out while I fumbled around to silence it.
The most embarassing thing that’s ever happened in our family was when my husband was called into a meeting with the President of our college for disciplinary reasons. The Pres. had been lecturing my husband about something when a loud scream of “All aboard!” accompanied by the laugh of Ozzy Osbourne interrupted…My husband hadn’t mastered setting his phone on vibrate until after that day.
First day of a graduate level class. I had turned my phone off but somehow the one button got pressed in my bag. Right as the prof talked about the phones off policy, MY phone rang. From that day forward, I didn’t bother turning the phone off anymore, I just turned the ringer off. LOL.
There are a couple friends of my FIL who purposely try to embarrass each other. One rang the other while the other in the choir loft. Then the first got rang while preaching in the pulpit. And so on. It was pretty funny.
Mine rang during a tender spiel moment at a Jonathan Martin concert (the family harmonizing, southern gospel singer). I was sitting second row of course.
Jonathan promptly stopped what he was saying, looked at me and said, “Is it for me? And ask them why they are not at this concert!”
“My phone never rings.” So everybody thinks!
Even got a photo taken w/ him and my cell phone after the concert. I guess there were no hard feelings!
I never forget, because this is my ringtone.
I love it how people think that no one can hear their phone vibrate. Guess what, we can still hear it! I don’t know how many times I’ve been in class when another student’s phone rings on vibrate and everyone in the class looks around to see who’s phone is vibrating. Thanks for not distracting us!
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