06 – Here’s a crazy thought, let’s try calling her
Have you ever seen the College Humor video “If All Movies had Cell Phones?” It shows how most movies would end before they start if people bothered to call. It’s so true. If people just had cell phones, most movies would have no conflict, their problems would have been solved much faster. Whenever I’m watching a movie that takes place in a modern time, I just keep thinking: “If you numb-nuts would just bother CALLING the other guy to let him know what was going on all this could have been avoided!”
Well guess what? My characters aren’t that stupid. Before they are going to jump into the problem they are going to just call each other to find out what is going on.
So, with that simple effort, they manage to avoid all sorts of problems and catastrophes, and are able to get things right back to normal and…
Oh wait, what was that? You mean they did try calling, but it didn’t help?
Oh man, they’re so boned.
That is the most extensive voicemail message I’ve ever heard…. >.<
It’s not THAT much longer than messages you’ve already heard.
Well, for customer service lines where you expect to talk to a machine, no. It’s not really all that long. But for someone’s cell-phone? Yeah… I’ve never heard one that long.
And I noticed that pressing one was listed as the option to hear more options as well as to have the instructions repeated. Lol. And if staying on the line will also result in the instructions being repeated, when will there be a tone so they can leave a message? I think I’d be pulling my hair out if I heard this in real life, but here… It is immensely amusing. 😀
“You may record a message of any length, so long as it is shorter than two minutes.”
WTF? That’s so contradictory…