A friend butt dialed me today, and then unwittingly left me a four-minute voice mail in which she and a friend of hers were talking...mostly about me.
I know the odds of that happening are pretty slim--butt dialing someone you happen to be gossiping about at that very moment--but clearly, they are not zero.
All I gotta say is, let's be careful out there, people.
UPDATE: Be careful how, you ask? It's a good question. The problem with butt dialing is that you don't know you've done it. So if you don't know you've butt dialed someone, you can't really guard against leaving an impolitic conversation about them (or someone/something else) on their voice mail, can you?
You can. Next time you're launching into an impolitic conversation, double-check your phone. Bam! Done.
Footnote: I could tell you not to launch into an impolitic conversation, I suppose, but come on...that would be like you telling me to limit myself to a single pint of lager at the pub. Not happening.
Anklenote: Many of you may be wondering whether or not I informed my friend that she had inadvertently left a gossipy conversation about me on my own voice mail. I did not. I think the mortification on her part would have far outweighed the little bit of hurt on my part.
Also, though, I realized that I gossip plenty in my life--a couple of times, I've even gossiped about this particular friend--and that I, therefore, could easily have made the mistake she did today.
And really, that mistake isn't the butt-dialing, it's the gossip. Because I've been guilty of that too, I decided I probably shouldn't make her suffer.
Shin-note: I'm not sure I've ever admired myself as much as I do right now.
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