Telephone oops

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<p>So, I’m running around like a crazy person, making phone calls from like three different phones and sending email, trying to finish everything before it becomes impossible to do any more business. Plus trying to get it all together so that I can leave for home tomorrow, six hour drive with cat. </p>

<p>Sometimes when I’m in a hurry I’ll talk on two telephones, two conversations at the same time, or I’ll dial one, while that call is ending be dialing the next call so I don’t lose time. Unfortunately sometimes my mouth goes on “autoresponse”. </p>

<p>So I called a friend, then Paris, then Sears auto. Went like this: </p>

<p>Me: “Can you do an oil change, check my tires, check out everything, I need to drive six hours tomorrow and want to make sure I’m good”.</p>

<p>Sears Guy: “Sure we can”.</p>

<p>Me: “O.K., how long is the wait?”</p>

<p>Sears Guy: “It depends on how busy we are.”</p>

<p>Me: “O.K. what’s the best time to come?”</p>

<p>Sears Guy: “Early in the morning is good, it’s pretty quick?”</p>

<p>Me: “Can’t do that, conference calls early. How does today look?”</p>

<p>Sears Guy: “It’s not too bad, but it is about a two hour wait.”</p>

<p>Me: “No problem, I’ll drop off my car, then, I’ll walk across the street and get some shopping done.” (I begin dialing my next number on my other phone at this point.)</p>

<p>Sears Guy: “Sure, if you can do that, that’ll work.”</p>

<p>Me: “Just in case, how late are you open?” (I’m dialing my next call, the phone is ringing in my other ear…)</p>

<p>Sears Guy: “8:00 tonight.”</p>

<p>Me: “O.K. perfect. I’ll see you then.” (Main menu is coming on in my other ear…)</p>

<p>Sears Guy: “O.K. just ask for Mike, when you get to the counter…”</p>

<p>Me: “O.K. I love you. Have a wonderful afternoon, and don’t forget to eat.”</p>

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<p><em>BLUSH</em>
<strong>ROFLMAO, LTS!!!</strong> So, did he tell you he loved you back??!! <em>lol</em> :)</p>

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<p>Reminds me of IM issues when you are responding to multiple IM screens.</p>

<p>On my computer, no matter what you are doing, when a new IM chat comes up, you are suddenly typing into the wrong window. Just last Friday, I was on a conference call and I was having a background conversation Mike, one of the participants on the call, about Karen, another woman on the call.</p>

<p>As I was typing “Karen is driving me absolutely nuts!!” to Mike, Karen sent me an IM. So of course I typed the above into Karen’s window and hit return. I never noticed until Karen’s replay: “Did you mean to send this to someone else??”</p>

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<p>digmedia: I would do that a ton too, but I use gaim which lets you set preferences so that doesn’t happen. Not sure if AIM and others have that option, though.</p>

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<p>^ Dig, mine does that too! I hate it!</p>

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<p>Whoa LTS – What I wouldn’t give to be at that Sears auto service listening to Mike re-telling your conservation :D. </p>

<p>What happened when you showed up???</p>

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<p>LOL - I didn’t go. As soon as I said “I love you” I knew I’d just goofed up really big but couldn’t put the brakes on my mouth, so the rest of the tagline came rushing out. Usually that’s the line that ends calls with my daughter, and I guess she was on my mind, so, naturally that’s what I said to the Sears guy. I hung up on BOTH calls because I was laughing so hard.</p>

<p>Lucky for me, I’d placed the call to Sears over Skype, which reports out on caller ID like 0001234567 etc. So, Sears guy has no clue who I am, and I remembered that we have a back up mechanic at the Shell station, and he’s very nice, so, I hurried and went there instead, to get the oil change before everything gets too busy. LOL. </p>

<p>Berurah off topic (hijacked my own thread lol) Skype’s new rates are out - $14.95 for the entire year, unlimited calling to U.S. and Canada. :)</p>

<p>Digmedia, how in the world did you ever 'splain your way out of the IM situation??? I sooooooooo would’ve lied. “It wasn’t me, someone else was on my computer…” oh, but that probably wouldn’t’ve worked, huh? Maybe I would’ve tried “oh that’s some other person with the same name also on my IM”. LOL.</p>

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<p>i have said I love you to people on the phone…yikes…ah welll</p>

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<p>Trying to get out of it: </p>

<p>I replied:“I meant to say ‘Karen, YOU are driving me absolutely nuts!’” Then continued with something like, “Don’t goad Mike on! He’ll never shut up.”</p>

<p>Pretty good cover up, eh???</p>

<p>Maybe not. I think she probably knew that I was sending the original message to someone else… :(</p>

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Skype costs?? :confused: Is this just for the phone service?? I’ve only used it to chat, but I’ve never paid anything… ~b.</p>

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<p>Digmedia, that is hysterical. What fast thinking - I would have take three days to come up with that idea. </p>

<p>B, Skype is awesome for telephone service. It’s been free to call any telephone in the U.S. and Canada for the past year, and the various international rates are awesome too. Connection clarity is outstanding. Now it’s $14.95 for an entire year - to call any telephone number in the U.S. and Canada, 24/7. Many of my friends and colleagues have Skype voicemail, call forwarding (to their cell phones) etc. but I don’t use that. But I understand those costs are < $50 year total. Some of them even use Skype video conferencing. </p>

<p>Chat remains free.</p>

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<p>I too have said “I love you” inappropriately, most recently to my boss, who chucked and said, “me too” and burst out laughing. I was red-faced for an hour.</p>