And before 99% of the calls and texts you receive were spam, political campaigns inevitably addressing you by the wrong name with heartfelt pleas for money, IRS scams, “Bob” from Microsoft technical support, Your Car’s Extended Warranty, AI generated robocalls telling you not to vote, or someone’s hysterical babymomma who refuses to understand that whoever she’s looking for might have had this number in 2007, but they don’t have it anymore.
For a while I kept getting calls from this old lady who didn’t realize she had to dial an area code before calling her son. After the first couple I answered it and explained to her that she’s dialing the wrong area code, but she didn’t remember and kept calling me and I’d let it go to voicemail. They were pretty sad and I think she was just lonely and wondering why her son wasn’t answering.
Eventually she stopped so I hope she figured it out.
You just unlocked a memory for me, and this happened from about 2008-2010 (not cell related, but it is phone related).
One day we got home and there was a message on the machine from someone asking us to remember to bring something when we visited him. Unfortunately, we had no idea who it was, so we just wrote it off as a wrong number. It happened a few more times after that, and we were getting curious.
I’d moved into the house in 2006 and received that phone number at that time. We often got calls from bill collectors looking for the previous residents, so we generally let everything go to the machine.
One evening we got a call, and I think I recognized that the number was this person’s, so I answered it. I told him he had the wrong number, and he said he’d had that same number for years and read back my number, the one he’d just called. I was like, “Uh, I don’t know what to tell you, but I’ve had this number since 2006.” He tried a few more times, and it was sometimes late in the evening.
At some point I looked up the number he was calling from and found it was a nursing home, and the pieces started to fall into place. My wife and I talked about it a few times, and we decided that if our relative was doing that, we’d want to know. We weren’t upset, but it felt like information the family should have. Who knows who else he might be calling, or getting calls from. So, we decided that when he called again, we’d call the nursing home and let them know it was happening.
But, we never got the chance. He never called again.
⛅️ To all of Joe Biden’s Supporters, please do not click away from this important message. 🇺🇸
President Biden is humbly asking you to donate $20 or whatever you can afford directly to his reelection campaign for President today.
As you read this, our campaign is getting absolutely pummeled with attacks online and in crucial states by Trump and other MAGA Republican groups.
If everyone getting this text donated just $20 to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, we would have the resources he needs to respond without asking for another donation for weeks.
Unfortunately, not everyone gives. A lot of folks look away, waiting for others to act.
That’s why we are hoping people like you who know the stakes in this election will contribute directly to his campaign today.
Our average online donation is around $40. Some give more, some give less. All that matters is that you are chipping in today to stand with President Biden.
These days I don’t even want a ringtone on my phone.
Back in that day, before everything had an app, most notifications were important
And before 99% of the calls and texts you receive were spam, political campaigns inevitably addressing you by the wrong name with heartfelt pleas for money, IRS scams, “Bob” from Microsoft technical support, Your Car’s Extended Warranty, AI generated robocalls telling you not to vote, or someone’s hysterical babymomma who refuses to understand that whoever she’s looking for might have had this number in 2007, but they don’t have it anymore.
For a while I kept getting calls from this old lady who didn’t realize she had to dial an area code before calling her son. After the first couple I answered it and explained to her that she’s dialing the wrong area code, but she didn’t remember and kept calling me and I’d let it go to voicemail. They were pretty sad and I think she was just lonely and wondering why her son wasn’t answering.
Eventually she stopped so I hope she figured it out.
You just unlocked a memory for me, and this happened from about 2008-2010 (not cell related, but it is phone related).
One day we got home and there was a message on the machine from someone asking us to remember to bring something when we visited him. Unfortunately, we had no idea who it was, so we just wrote it off as a wrong number. It happened a few more times after that, and we were getting curious.
I’d moved into the house in 2006 and received that phone number at that time. We often got calls from bill collectors looking for the previous residents, so we generally let everything go to the machine.
One evening we got a call, and I think I recognized that the number was this person’s, so I answered it. I told him he had the wrong number, and he said he’d had that same number for years and read back my number, the one he’d just called. I was like, “Uh, I don’t know what to tell you, but I’ve had this number since 2006.” He tried a few more times, and it was sometimes late in the evening.
At some point I looked up the number he was calling from and found it was a nursing home, and the pieces started to fall into place. My wife and I talked about it a few times, and we decided that if our relative was doing that, we’d want to know. We weren’t upset, but it felt like information the family should have. Who knows who else he might be calling, or getting calls from. So, we decided that when he called again, we’d call the nursing home and let them know it was happening.
But, we never got the chance. He never called again.
⛅️ To all of Joe Biden’s Supporters, please do not click away from this important message. 🇺🇸
President Biden is humbly asking you to donate $20 or whatever you can afford directly to his reelection campaign for President today.
As you read this, our campaign is getting absolutely pummeled with attacks online and in crucial states by Trump and other MAGA Republican groups.
If everyone getting this text donated just $20 to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, we would have the resources he needs to respond without asking for another donation for weeks.
Unfortunately, not everyone gives. A lot of folks look away, waiting for others to act.
That’s why we are hoping people like you who know the stakes in this election will contribute directly to his campaign today.
Our average online donation is around $40. Some give more, some give less. All that matters is that you are chipping in today to stand with President Biden.
Here’s the link to give: https://m.joebiden.com/lY9su6i0
Team Joe
STOP2quit
Is this satire?
Yes. Commenter mentioned spam texts and I got this one today.
I think this went over some people’s heads.
My fault
Lol, thats not very long
Got another one today:
March is an FEC deadline month.
This means that at the end of the month we will be required to report how much money we’ve raised, and everyone will be watching.
The President needs you now more than ever. Chip in $20 here: https://m.joebiden.com/o4zM3Wi0
Biden HQ
STOP2quit
So its not even about the money, its just about them being able to show off how much money they raised?
Oh Team Joe. I’m so sorry to have to tell you this, but all of what would have been my discretionary income is servicing student loans.
I still have my phone set that way. I turn off all notifications that aren’t messages. Though, I guess now it all goes through my watch first.
i only unmute when i’m expecting an important call (like the pizza man at my door)
Our pizza man doesn’t call or ring the doorbell. He sends a text and if you’re not down there in like 15 seconds he is GONE
This just seems like more work for him!
I can get away from unmuting thanks to my Mi Band 😬
How much you spending on custom vibration patterns?
I would throw a dollar at shave and a haircut for texts.
Do you have an iPhone? You can make your own!
Settings > sound & haptics > [pick any tone] > haptics (at the top) > create new vibration
Mine’s always on silent mode too.
Ay but there are still notification chimes