1-900-976-POLL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cJgPXU-ik

used to call these all the time from maybe 10 to 13, my house, friends houses, the pay phone inside of the skating rink. I don't think I ever talked to anyone on them, I just called to hear the prerecorded heathy breathing overtures, most of the numbers were advertisements for the legit number where the actual phone sex happens iirc. combination of getting a laugh out of it and genuine tittillation. didn't know you had to *pay* for them though so being presented with a bill for the charges a cpl wks after a sleepover at church my first reaction was confusion, then the requisite shame and casting false accusations around to pin it on someone else. I forget exactly how I wiggled out of that one but soon after I discovered pornography and that was that for phone stuff.

Just one of those things that, as a teenager, I always planned on doing when I grew up that I just never got around to doing.

one time when i was 11 or 12 i called one on a payphone at my synagogue and hung up as soon as it asked for money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hYtUYiuzkw

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Hmmmm, this certainly wasn't the repository of rememberin' the times that I had hoped it would be.

never actually on purpose. but my first year at my current company, when I was still on the phones myself, I needed to transfer a caller over to Metlife to help with dental claim questions they had.

Metlife's phone number is 1-800-MET-LIFE, but that day I misremembered it as 1-888-MET-LIFE - which was....not an insurance carrier. when I went to do the conference call, I heard the lurid tones of a sex line worker narrating the menu of a raunchy sex line. at the time, I'd never learned how to 'cancel' a conference call, so I panicked, thinking I did it the right way.

but what I actually did was conference in the customer with the sex line, then hung up in a panic, leaving her alone with the sex line.

lmao

Neanderthal has the best stories.

MetLife must just love having their that doppelganger number existing; gotta believe dozens of callers make that same mistake. Wonder if the phone sex line chose that number intentionally, the way p0rn sites used to grab URLs that were misspelled names of big companies

I'm definitely sure they do it on purpose, though Metlife is a bit of a stretch to spoof.