Cause We're All Phonies
This entry was posted on 1/24/2007 1:42 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Sprint
has our number. They know we use our mobile phones as excuses to get
out of awkward social situations (bad dates, family funerals,
meetings), and are launching a hysterical new service to help us all be
better liars.
C'mon, admit it. You know you've had a friend call
you in the middle of a date with the express purpose of using the call
as an excuse to cut the date short if it wasn't going well. Then
there's the fake number givers. You were at a bar, and some guy/gal was
chatting you up and asked for your number at the end of the evening.
Rather than say no, you gave them a bogus number, or better yet, gave
them a number to a rejection service (so cruel, and yet so funny at the
same time!).
Whatever the reasons may be, cell phones have
become the ultimate out. Can't stand the way your date picks his nose
while chewing with his mouth open? Fake a family death and dump his
ass! Can't stand your family's neurosis around the holidays? Fake a
work emergency and leave early! Didn't prepare for your budget meeting?
Fake a personal crisis and get the heck out of dodge!
Walking
around Manhattan, I've heard people say the strangest things on the
phone. For instance, I was emerging from the subway downtown one
evening and heard a guy walking down the street say, "No honey, I'm
still at work. We're in the conference room, that's why you can't reach
me on my office line." Liar! Hopefully his caller didn't notice the
blaring taxi horns or traffic noise.
Then there's the
Just
in case you're terrible at lying (and let's face it, some people truly
are), Sprint is offering a new service to help us out when we're down.
Called Mobile Faker, Sprint customers can now subscribe to a service
that fakes incoming phone calls with voice prompts to fake a realistic
conversation, fake numbers that send would-be suitors to a rejection
line, hip conversation starters for those who can't seem to stop
stammering when their ideal mate walks up to them in a bar, fake
wallpapers of significant others, kids and pets and pick-up and
rejection lines so you can sound cool in front of your friends.
Now,
is this service entirely practical for business users? Probably not.
Especially if you are someone who is highly visible in your company or
industry, or if you're an actual decent person (if there are any of you
left). Still, it just might come in handy when you're on the road at a
trade show and some husky voiced hotel bar patron just won't take no
for an answer.
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