Er. Um.

So I was sitting here tap-tap-tapping away on the keyboard, when I hear in the distance one of those ever-present phone messages…

The number you have reached is not in service. Please hang up, check the number and try again.

I am in a cube farm, so it is not uncommon to hear telephone noises on speakerphone wafting o’er the dividers. I figured the owner of the phone in question would, indeed, hang up and try again.

Except they didn’t. For a full 2 and a half minutes…

The number you have reached is not in service. Please hang up, check the number and try again.

And I’m thinking, that is ridiculous, why on earth would you sit and listen to that message for that long? Perhaps they walked out of their cube, forgetting to hang up? How rude can you be?

It was then that I realized it was coming from the cellphone in my pocket.

Er. Um.

Heheh.