Advancing technology most always comes with a few hiccups, and one of them that comes to mind is that of the famous "butt dial" aka pocket dialing or accidental dialing.
Your phone will ring, and you say hello, and there's no answer on the other end. Just some background noise, maybe a cough or a shuffling of feet, or the chance to listen to a conversation going on between the people on the other end who don't know you are listening. It's a one ended conversation if you will.
When this happens, you may be a victim of butt dialing.
When the phone is in a pocket or purse, for instance, a certain movement can trigger the phone to make an auto dialed call without the cell phone owner knowing it.
Usually when this happens to me, it is a call from one of my kids or my husband. I don't want them wasting their minutes with a call they don't even know they are making, so I try to speak loudly (yell) into the phone to get their attention.
This rarely works. The phone is usually muffled in a purse or a jean or jacket pocket.
You'd think that with cell phones becoming fancier, higher tech and more advanced, there would be preventative measures. However, my kids think the latest phones are a "must-have," and they manage to butt dial me even on the most expensive cell phones.
After I grow tired of speaking loudly (yelling) trying to get their attention, I hang up and go back to what I was doing before I was on the receiving end of an accidental dialing.
This can be entertaining, however. It depends on where the butt dialer is and who is with him/her at the time. It can also be likened to finding out a secret you didn't really want (or need) to know.
I'll leave much of this to your imagination as it is easy to see there are some wild possibilities.
A few tips on cell phones you might want to consider in regards to butt dial calls:
Be selective of who you put on auto dialBefore launching yourself into a compromising discussion or situation, take extra precautions to prevent an accidental pocket dialEvaluate where to keep your iPhone depending on what you will be doing (swimming, roller coaster riding, riding a wild bronco, etc.)As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. You might save yourself from an embarrassing (or worse) situation if you are extra careful about accidental dialing.
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