drunk dial shame

Every so often when I'm really drunk I phone up a friend of a friend who I have never met, pretending to be the angry father of a girl he has supposedly knocked up and left heartbroken. This has been going on so long now that the fictitious child has taken its first steps.

I <3 Matt DC.

I once phoned grimly fiendish at midnight from a pub I'd been in since lunchtime to ask him to give me a job. Unfortunately what I actually said was "arrbggkfdslkdgjk svkz;xkg;jksd vk;fgkasdlfk" or something. I didn't know I'd done this until looking at my calls made list the next morning. I have a sort of fear of looking at my outgoing calls/texts after a long pub session. I also remain convinced I am going to send really rude sweariness about the football to my mum rather than my brother, but I've never done this. Yet.

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-- hsxmpsxn, Monday, February 11, 2008 12:07 AM Link

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I think I told the story already but around 4 or 5 years ago, when I was an even bigger idiot,it was new years eve. my friend David asked me via text how a gig I was at was, and I texted back "it's fucking great, he just played blah blah blah", I forget the song.

a few minutes later I got a text back from my Dad "glad you're having fun, happy new year!"

hahaha eek -- could have been worse though!

This thread makes me incredibly grateful that despite showing my mother how to read text/send messages about five times she still maintains it's very complicated and will never do it (I'm not quite sure how her phone makes it any less complicated to decide not to read a text it's telling you about than to read it, but apparently it does).

my mum loves texting. her texts are like "weather lovely having great time reading a book by the pool now have a great weekend think chicken in freezer mum"

Ah, the time I texted my dad informing him that Robert Pires was "a massive cunt". He saw the funny side though.

Woke my friend up while she was in bed with her boyfriend.
"Taniya!! I'm drunk and watching Terrrminaaaaator! How are ya buudy!"
"Ha ha ... uhh ... I'm in bed... so how are you?"
"Drunk and watching Terminator! Aren't you listening?"

I'm not so much a drunk dialer. Mostly I'll just try to dance with your or climb something.

i dont have my parents number saved in my phone. also they don have mobiles

They don't need to have a mobile for you to accidentally drunk text them - see also Voice texts.

i know.

nevertheless the number is not saved in the phone. i don't have many numbers in my phone anyway. i quite liked it when i had no numbers in there at all recently

this is not something i really do but feel i should.

i mean i've sent many silly txts when drunk but nothing really shameful comes to mind.

I only carry a mobile at work, but I have the internet for making a drunken twat out of myself on.

yeah, you can't drop the internet into the toilet

but you can do a toilet on the internet

I think only having a land line has kept me from make the ass of myself I'm truly capable of.

I don't do this! I mean I might call people while drunk (hi, ddb!) but only if for a purpose, or as a group joke. I think of the "shameful" drunk dial/text as being to an ex or someone you only contact after you've turned maudlin, and I think I might be too proud for that.

yeah same here! generally.

i'm quite capable of making an unforgiveable ass of myself using only those present, thank you.

I mean, when I get maudlin the only person I want is me mivver, and it's undoubtedly too late to call her by that time.

the point being, that drunk dial shame would be all about calling your mivver at an inappropriately late time.

I want more stories.

I don't text when maudlin, more just random "HI HOW ARE YOU" texts to 20 people or so.

maudlin? mivver? you guys are speaking a diff language today

One of the best things to come out of my quitting drinking has been that I no longer do this!! I used to be really bad with the calling ex BFs thing. Oy. I was never that afraid of calling my Mom but I have my the work and cell numbers for my boss in my phone and I used to wake up and be paranoid I'd called and told him to fuck off or something.

well, my mum used to get drunk and call me, my ex, her parents, my dad, his relatives, etc. so i usually leave the phone at home if i think i'll be drinking.

I got drunk dialed by my brother last week while he was walking between bars in Iowa City. He'd be talking to me then suddenly talking to girls he saw on the street... "Hey! You should come with me to this bar. There's this band there, they're 'hardcore bluegrass', I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!! No no, you should come inside, if don't like 'em you can just leave. (so on...) Oh man Nate, I'm gonna keep walkin, they think I'm creepy, I think I creeped 'em out."
And later, "You should see THESE guys, they look pretty frat-tastic! Oh, I shouldn't say that so loud. (still nearly yelling) The frats are all about the butt love." Me: "That's how they initiate you, y'know." Him: "Buttlovin." Me: "Yep."

Oh then there's this kid who whenever he's in town calls and threatens to rape us. Sure it only sounds mildly annoying, but when you factor in that he raped a kid during a bout of cream corn wrestling....

Calls drunkenly, in case you didn't assume.

but when you factor in that he raped a kid during a bout of cream corn wrestling....

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Why don't mobile phones let you password-protect contacts if you wish? So that you can put your boss and your mother and your ex and people you've got job interviews with etc in them and not worry that you'll call when drunk or call them with your arse when you're uh busy or something. It wouldn't be hard to do, you can already password-protect the interface on a lot of them, right?

If someone makes a million off this brilliant idea then I at least want a free phone so I can happily add work numbers to my phone for those hour-late-in-traffic-jam moments without worrying about this.

spacecadet, that is a brilliantly brilliant idea. now if only someone could make my friends all have vastly differing names to people i work with so that I don't accidentally ring the wrong Dave/Gerry/Stuart when drunk and end up asking my ex-boss if he wants to go for a game of pool, then that too would be marvellous.

Some mobile company somewhere (Airgin Australia?!) did this already, I think. It should be standard everywhere though - brilliant!

sleep .... I doubt the story personally, but he claims so. The cream corn wrestling part is certainly true, but I think he just has some weird fixation on rape.

I have deleted any old/ex bosses or girlfriends from my phone as I was terrible for this. I don’t really understand why people keep ex’s numbers, it’s asking for trouble. I can’t think of anyone on my phone that’d be annoyed at a drunken text or late night call. My boss is under “boss” and that’s to a landline, so even then, there’ll be no harm.

Every so often when I'm really drunk I phone up a friend of a friend who I have never met, pretending to be the angry father of a girl he has supposedly knocked up and left heartbroken. This has been going on so long now that the fictitious child has taken its first steps.

-- Matt DC, Monday, February 11, 2008 5:48 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yet you cant tolerate knife licking.

My boss is under “boss” and that’s to a landline, so even then, there’ll be no harm.

not goodwin, did you not *READ* the texting-to-a-landline thread? Whole extra level of potential horror!

i dont drunk dial exes but i drunk dial friends. always. dont give me your number unless you want me to call you to chat about alien resurrection at 3 in the morning.

i'm afraid i haven't ailsa.

i havent drunk dialled in a while but as saturday night proved, when i get really wasted i'll basically text anything that moves

i have a friend i call when stoned and i told him as much and he's just resigned to it even though he is v. busy doing shitty jobs in the entertainment industry.

Ho boy, am I ever glaad I don't use the phone stoned anymore.

i keep a couple of my ex's phone numbers saved on my list just to make sure to not answer when/if they call, instead of inevitably being like 'hey, i kinda recognize this number.. i wonder who this is...'

of course, this leads to some idiotic drunken decisions at 3am

Every so often when I'm really drunk I phone up a friend of a friend who I have never met, pretending to be the angry father of a girl he has supposedly knocked up and left heartbroken. This has been going on so long now that the fictitious child has taken its first steps.

-- Matt DC, Monday, 11 February 2008 11:48 (Yesterday) Link

Not as clever, but a friend of mine would get drunk and prank call the asshole ex-RA of another friend of ours (who he's never met), pretending to be a fratboy buddy who really wants to bro down and maybe j/o together.

i have deleted all exes from my phone. it's quite liberating and i highly reecommend you all do it! saves a lot of potential embarrassment!!