I just remembered another story I had about ‘wrong texts’ as I blogged about yesterday, but this one is slightly different as it isn’t the fault of predictive text.
When I was about 18/19, my best mate used to work for the police (she wasn’t actually a cop), and her boyfriend at the time was a cop. This is before the time that everyone had a mobile phone (yes, I really am that old!) and he had a pager.
For anyone under the age of mumblety-numb if you had a pager, people could contact you by text which you got as a scrolling one-line – a bit like those crap LED advertising things. But you couldn’t just text it like you can now, you had to ring a premium rate number and tell the woman what you wanted to say and she would type it out for you and send it to the correct pager.
Simple aye?
Anyway, my mate suddenly got rushed to hospital with severe appendicitis one day and her brother thought he’d better let her boyfriend know, so that he could come to the hospital. So he sent him a pager message “Gone to hospital. Please ring Jo’s dad”
She had her appendix out in an emergency op and was coming round when her boyfriend managed to see her. And he sat down on her bed, absolutely beside himself and asked her whether she knew how worried he’d been. She was very touched obviously, and then he showed her his pager.
The message read “Gone to hospital. Please ring Jo’s dead”
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We’re so high tech, we still use pagers at work
But do you have one like that or one of those where you can just ring the number from any phone and it pages the phone number for you to call back?
OMG, how awful!! Poor bloke (plus is this who I think it might be? First name beginning with J..)
LOL – I did actually use her name