Wednesday, December 01, 2004
drunken dialing
"I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone." - Kurt Vonnegut
So do I. Or at least I used to.
The Wife and The Boy seem to have cured me. Although I can't say that I haven't had an ocassional relapse. Or that it hasn't progressed into a disease involving alcohol and the internet.
Well, my dear reader, if you also suffer from such a malady, help is available, at least for our Aussie friends:
You're Drunk...who You Gonna Call?
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls.
A survey of 409 people by Virgin Mobile, a joint venture of The Virgin Group and Optus, found 95 percent made drunk calls.
Of those calls, 30 percent were to ex-partners, 19 percent to current partners, and 36 percent to other people, including their bosses.
The company also found that 55 percent of those polled would grab for their phone first the next morning to check who they had drunkenly dialed, compared with just eight percent who went for the headache pills first.
If only this service were available ten or so years ago. Several former college girlfriends would have been most grateful.
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So do I. Or at least I used to.
The Wife and The Boy seem to have cured me. Although I can't say that I haven't had an ocassional relapse. Or that it hasn't progressed into a disease involving alcohol and the internet.
Well, my dear reader, if you also suffer from such a malady, help is available, at least for our Aussie friends:
You're Drunk...who You Gonna Call?
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls.
A survey of 409 people by Virgin Mobile, a joint venture of The Virgin Group and Optus, found 95 percent made drunk calls.
Of those calls, 30 percent were to ex-partners, 19 percent to current partners, and 36 percent to other people, including their bosses.
The company also found that 55 percent of those polled would grab for their phone first the next morning to check who they had drunkenly dialed, compared with just eight percent who went for the headache pills first.
If only this service were available ten or so years ago. Several former college girlfriends would have been most grateful.
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