Does your cell phone ever butt dial people?

[Bunny]

Mine has on occasion, it's a little embarrassing. The person my phone usually butt dials is a lady I work with, whose name starts with 'A' and she's the first person on my contact list.

It usually happens when I put my phone in my purse, where it gets knocked around and decides to start calling people. :eyes:

[Bucky]

1. Sadly, I am limited by my lack of prehensile buttocks.

A bunch of prehensile crap in you purse is probably a bit more common than hynie cheeks sharp enough to hit the dial button.

[Bunny]

4. I have opposing buttocks, so I am blessed in that department.

It enables me to butt text.

[Bucky]

7. Will you marry me?

You're so sweet. What buttock could ever be opposed to you?

[Bunny]

10. Sure I'll marry you. And I have never met a buttock that opposed me, so I guess I am kinda sweet.

[Bucky]

14. By way of analogy with ship captains, I wonder if Earl can perform the ceremony

Also, I want to honeymoon in the gungeon.

[Bunny]

16. Well, Earl can perform the ceremony if he can dress up as an Elvis impersonator.

Because if I ever get married again, Elvis is going to do the honors.

Gungeon is fine for the honeymoon festivities.

[Bucky]

46. This is how I see it going down. Please note my excellent choice for best man.

[Bunny]

48. Oh, I am THERE!

I'm really liking my maid of honor, too. :thumbsup:

[Bunny]

2. My daughter's phone butt dials me.

That can be comical.

[datasuspect]

3. it seems my new phone was preloaded with a strange video clip

snippets of a news broadcast from September 17, 2026 highlighting the military build up along the Mississippi River in an attempt to quash the insurrection on the eastern seaboard.

it's weird because i just got it.

could someone at the factory be playing a joke on me?

[Bunny]

8. Well, that 's pretty weird.

[Rhythm]

5. I pocket-dialed 911 once...

I was riding with a friend, and i kept hearing this little voice saying, "Hello? HELLO?! Is anyone there?!?!?!".

I realized it was my cell (in my front pocket with a bunch of junk), so i got it out to aplolgize, and it was the 911 dispatcher. She asked me repeatedly if EVERYTHING was alright (*wink wink nudge nudge*), and i embarrassedly explained that i'd forgotten to keylock my phone, and my car keys had bumped the buttons.

I have never forgotten to do that again... ever.

[Bunny]

9. Wow!

My kid dialed 911 on the land line when she was small. They questioned me quite closely as to whether everything was okay.

[carlyhippy]

6. nope, my phone has a lock on the keypad

Carly

[Bunny]

11. I should see if my phone has one of those things.

[Richardo]

12. I have a closeable phone to prevent such an eventuality, but I do get this every so often:

I have been butt-texted before. Recently. ;-)



Hey - if a guy carries his phone in his front pocket is it a junk dial? :hi:

[Bunny]

15. Junk dial!!

:wow: :spray: :rofl:

Sorry about that text thing...:blush:

:hi:

[hobbit709]

13. Nope, I don't store any numbers on mine

I also delete the call logs on a regular basis but I'm paranoid about some things.

[Bunny]

17. Well, that's two ways to avoid butt dialing.

:patriot:

[bigwillq]

18. No

I have a flip phone, and it can't dial unless you flip it open.

[Bunny]

19. I'm hearing good things about these flip phones.

I should look into this.

:hi:

[Richardo]

21. Nokias rule

IMO.

I started with a Nokia in 1990-something and through many upgrades have never had a phone I liked better. I've tried other ones on upgrades and always turned them back in during the trial period.

Pluses for me are:

Fully customizable left and right menu buttons, large font phone directory, talk/listen clarity, and the key layout is consistent from model to model. Plus, I've dropped it from the seat of the truck to the ground at least a half dozen times with no ill effects (for the phone at least). :eyes:

And usually, there's a model available for upgrade for little or no up-front money. Of course, I don't need to have a full keyboard or a music player or full internet access so I can live with a basic model that lets me text, send photos and access email.

So that's my Nokia commercial. :patriot:

On edit: my current model:

[Bunny]

24. Nokia, huh? You know, you really should be compensated for that testimonial.

it's quite convincing. If I wasn't hooked on my blackberry, I'd look into this.

[bigwillq]

23. I love mine.

I've always had a flip-phone, even my first one was, when it was much larger than it is now.

[kentauros]

20. No, my six-year-old phone has this little thing called "keyguard" on it.

They don't do that on newer phones anymore? It's a great feature. I guess people are in too big of a hurry to twit around the world than to wait two seconds to turn off keyguard ;)

[Bunny]

25. I actually don't know if mine has a keyguard or not.

I should probably read the manual.

[kentauros]

27. Reading the manual is usually a good idea.

Unless you're Eddie Izzard :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9I_xhaDyxs

[Bunny]

28. Eddie and I are on the same page, as it were.

I have no time for manuals!

[Richardo]

29. *I'm* a manual kinda guy.

One of the blackberry forums says:

To lock the keypad from the home screen, press and hold * for 2 seconds.

That's for a 7100. :shrug:

[Bunny]

30. Okay, you made me look this up. It's complete techie gibberish to me!

http://www.blackberryforums.com/general-8300-series-discussion-curve/104299-quick-keyboard-lock.html

Actually, it looks like I can lock it with the left side convenience key. But I don't know how to unlock it - I may have to actually RTFM to figure that out! Hopefully you will not be the next victim of my butt dialing/texting. Thanks babe! :fistbump:

[Richardo]

31. Wow that is a whole mess o' gibberish.

:dunce:

I've got two words for ya: No. Kia. :)






...and butt text me anytime you want, sweets. ;)

[kentauros]

38. I just skimmed through all that.

It looks like you can press and hold the mute button to put it in standby mode. According to the last poster in that thread, such a setting will remain until you bring it out of standby. I don't know if pressing and holding down the mute button again releases it, or if the other sequence mentioned (* and green button in series) is what does it. Experiment, Eddie! :P

[Bunny]

42. I read that, too. I don't even know where the mute button is.

That's awful, isn't it?

[kentauros]

47. Well, at least your phone has a mute button

Not so on mine, but it still works fine for my minimal uses :)

[NJmaverick]

22. I guess you could always create an AA entry with your cell phone's own number

that way no one would be bothered.

[Bunny]

26. If my cell started calling itself my head would probably explode.

[arbusto_baboso]

32. No. However I like to set my cell to "vibrate", stick it up my bum and speedial my cell from

a land line.

I'm kidding. Or am I? Yes I am. Or am I?

[Bunny]

34. You shouldn't give me such ideas.

I'm between husbands right now, and I'm starting to look at my phone in a whole new way...

[arbusto_baboso]

44. I live to serve!

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[FloridaJudy]

35. No, but I've butt snapped a few pictures.

Completely dark, of course, because the phone is either in my purse, pocket or bra. I can't be the only woman who stashes her phone between her assets when she has no purse and wishes to be hands-free. They just don't put enough pockets in women's clothing.

[Bunny]

36. My phone might get lost if I stuck it in my bra.

Okay, I exaggerated.

But I agree that there are never enough pockets on women's clothing.

[petronius]

37. My butt doesn't need a cellphone when it has something to say...

;)

[Bunny]

41. Maybe a "flip butt" would take care of that?

:shrug:

[Inchworm]

39. No, butt.. I LOVE this commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Fs8cbV8lM

:*

[Bunny]

40. I know. That girl is so cute when she says 'hey butt'!

:D

[Lars39]

43. My husband's butt managed to call me on my cell phone this morning,

and then a little later, on my house phone. We were not amused. :D

[Lucian]

45. That's the problem with touch screens.

I have a BlackBerry Storm, and I have that problem on occasion. One time, I accidentally called this girl I worked with. Apparently what was left was a three minute voice mail of me talking to my mom. Thank god the phone was in my pants pocket so she couldn't hear anything. :rofl: :blush:

[Left Is Write]

52. My previous phone had a touch screen, but I locked it when I wasn't using it.

My current phone is a BlackBerry Curve, which does not have a touch screen - but I still lock the keyboard when the phone goes in my pocket or purse.

I DID accidentally dial someone yesterday, but that was my own fault. I was pulling up the call history with this contact, and I accidentally hit "call contact" instead of "view history."

[Call Me Wesley]

49. Well, I don't usually sit on mine,

but yeah, I check out my contacts, and the next thing I hear is: "Hey! Haven't spoken to you in over twenty years! How are you? Are you even still alive? I remember you looked a bit pale, and I thought you had some disease or something, like a virus ... heh heh .. no, I'm glad you don't have a virus! Are you still reading those complicated books? I was really concerned about you earlier, you know, when I read the newspaper and saw your picture there: these cops aren't good photographers, aren't they? You need some money? I have a few dimes to spare."

So much for just touching the thing in the wrong place ...

[Bunny]

50. HAHAHA!

"Are you still reading those complicated books?" :rofl: :hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

51. Yep, I sure am!

;) :hug:

[mwooldri]

53. Nope. Cellphone lives in shirt pocket.

Plus it's one of those clamshell phones... so no possibility of butt dialing here.

[Vidar]

54. I despise that commercial.

[BreweryYardRat]

55. No, my butt just has delusions of being a photographer.

It clogged my picture memory card with photos of the interior of my pants pocket. Extremely annoying.

[HopinAndDreamin]

56. did someone say booty call

ooo bad pun sorry

[deucemagnet]

57. No, but occasionally my phone will take pictures of the inside of my pocket

until it runs out of RAM. x(

[latebloomer]

58. No, but last week my mom's cell called me at 4 in the morning

Rang once. She insists she was fast asleep and the phone was downstairs.