Phone Voyeurism
What is the appeal of voyeurism? I assume it’s just some sort of innate curiosity. Sampling a slice of someone else’s life.
So Friday night, T-Mobile’s infrastructure took a dump here in California (though the residents of howardforums.com were saying it was Cingular’s fault). My girlfriend was trying to call her parents but was encountering all sorts of issues. Sometimes her phone wouldn’t dial. Sometimes it would dial and stop. Occasionally it would ring but end up calling someone random. And other times it’d drop her in the middle of somebody else’s conversation or something. The failure of the system was quite inconvenient. And we were stuck in traffic on the 10.
So to entertain ourselves in traffic we decided to check voicemail. We’d call up voicemail, sometimes it’d work other times it’d ring someone up. Once one even ended up in what sounded like some sort of T-Mobile corporate voicemail/menu system. And sometimes we’d even connect to the voicemail system. The entertaining part was that it would recognize us as someone else. So we listened to a couple of people’s voice mails. Honostly, it was fairly entertaining considering how utterly boring the messages really are. I think it was the prospect of finding a juicy VM that really kept us entertained. Sorry, male models who have credit card issues really aren’t that exciting.
Another note, telecom is generally percieved to have the best uptime of any technology service with more 9’s of reliability then the computing industry really cares for. You kinda take it for granted that they would be down, or it would take their support staff more than 5 minutes to restore service. Opps.
So, what do you have saved in your voiemail? 