Er. Um.<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n
The number you have reached is not in service. Please hang up, check the number and try again.<\/i><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Except they didn’t. For a full 2 and a half minutes…<\/p>\n
The number you have reached is not in service. Please hang up, check the number and try again.<\/i><\/p>\n
And I’m thinking, that is ridiculous<\/i>, 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?<\/p>\n
It was then that I realized it was coming from the cellphone in my pocket.<\/p>\n
Er. Um.<\/p>\n
Heheh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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