The phone had been ringing for a long time. Where was everyone? They’ve all gone out you twillop said a voice inside my head. We have a phone in the sitting room, dining room and two of the bedrooms. It so happened I was in one of the rooms where there was no phone. I pressed pause on my laptop, took out the earphone from my right ear and got up to run and answer it. Oh that’s another thing about me, I only wear one earphone so that if someone is calling me, the phone rings or someone knocks at the door I can attend to them or it. One of the worst ever feelings is needing to use the loo but you don’t have the key to get into your house. And when you knock, the person inside takes what seems like forever to open because they can’t hear you. I only ever use both when going to bed, or sleeping on the bus. Anyway back to the ringing phone. I ran downstairs to the sitting room, out of breath and picked up the phone.
“Hello?”
After a few seconds an automated recording started playing, “Are you suffering from death? If you would like…”
I put the phone down after it finally registered what the recording had said.
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There’s been a lot of snow here in the UK. This story was in the news recently and the sheer stupidity of it made me smile. The woman didn’t even realise she was wasting valuable police time. (Click on the picture below to read the full story).
Even though the world is advancing rapidly in all sorts of ways, whether it be healthcare, learning more about the universe, creating smaller yet faster machines etc. etc, there’s still a lot of stupidity and ignorance. People still do and say things which make you open your mouth so wide flies are tempted to go inside and have babies. What’s the most stupidest thing you’ve heard or seen?
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6 December 2010 at 00:03
LOL! 8-) this reminds of something you said to me once, 'Common sense, isn't all that common'. Great post man! THanks for sharing.
Yours truly =]
6 December 2010 at 00:59
oh man!! thats was funny and talented person, proud to be toyr friend!! =]
you really a funny person thats what i like about you, even you have sadness and sorrow inside you :)
x
6 December 2010 at 09:22
Blimeys.
Honestly that's just ridiculous, something far more serious could have been taking place on the other side and this woman was more bothered about a silly snowman 8-)
Reminds me of the article i once read where this woman called the cops cos her husband was snoring too loud. Like wth mann!
6 December 2010 at 10:17
Hate to correct you dear, but it's most stupid, or stupidest, not both =P the most or the est are superfluous when the other is already used. (and if you haven't figured out that this is me by now, surely I deserve 5 points =P).
I loved this news story, made my day! My family have a habit of stupid questions: "How much is the free carpark" courtesy of my mother. "how big is a 12 inch pizza/1/4lb burger?" care of my sister (the one now at university, worryingly enough...)
Darwin awards anyone?
xxx
6 December 2010 at 10:35
LOL HAHA :P
6 December 2010 at 11:54
@ Yours Truly: I know, with a name such as common sense one would assume it was 'common', obviously not :P.
@ Sweeti-Yoyo: Thanks for reading! :)x
@ Smiley: Tell me about it! But then again, there were a few pound coins in the snowman. Which idiot puts pound coins in a snowman? 8-). && I guess she now has to go and buy some tea spoons.
It's really surprising when people do things like that isn't it?
@ Anonymous: Okay okay! I realised the mistake when I posted it last night but was just too lazy to change it. Supidest implies the highest level of stupidity and thus you can't get any more stupid than that right? Sorrrrrrry! :P.
haha the quotes made me smile :D.
Thank you.
x
@ Furree Katt: I know. I did the same. Though I don't know how you can LOL and HAHA in the same sentance. Is that even possible? ;D
6 December 2010 at 19:07
i hate those automated recordings they're so stupid! I always slam the phone down. *brain fog* erm when people say "your face/ your mum/dad" because its so lame & theres no come back
~miss anon~
6 December 2010 at 22:29
@ Miss Anon: I know! Even worse than that is we get random phone calls from India, from some customer services dept of God-knows-which company and they always ask 'do you have a sky dish?' . We've had that so many times I once said 'ask your friend who called last time'
Tell me about it. That is the epitome of lameness. 8-).
26 December 2010 at 19:12
haha I rarely answer the phone which irritates my friends. I just let it ring or turn the ringer off. We used to get random phone calls from India/Pakistan too. They were quite funny when they talk in urdu and beg you (literally) to buy from them. Don't you guys have like a "do not call list" so that telemarketer don't call you?