High on my list of Most Embarrassing Things That I've Done is my famous "Britney Spears Butt Call". The incident occurred, a long time ago, as I drove to the barn to do chores very early one morning. It was before daybreak and, tired and groggy from rising early, I was alone in the truck when I decided, in an effort to wake myself, to raise the volume and sing along with the CD that was in the stereo.
Later, I was asked by a good friend if I had "enjoyed myself the other morning"?
"What are you talking about?"
"Well ... I got a strange phone call from you. It really sounded like you were in the middle of some 'morning enjoyment' and you wanted me to hear it."
"Huh?"
"Yeah ... I, um, heard a lot of music and some groaning and rustling and I thought maybe you were 'enjoying' yourself. But I couldn't understand why you would want me to listen in."
Holy crap! I'd "butt called" her! Apparently, hers was the last number that I had dialed the night before and I had inadvertently called her, at what seemed like the middle of the night, so that she found herself listening to what she thought sounded like a party. I was mortified. Of course, once the situations was explained, we both enjoyed a good laugh.
Just last weekend, a wrong number helped to save a Ohio woman's life. A seventy-year-old woman, while suffering a stroke, felt her right side go numb as she fell to the floor. She was able to grab her phone with her left hand and thought she was calling her son for help. But, she misdialed and ended up speaking with a Denver man who had kept his Ohio number when he moved away.
Two time zones away, a Denver man answered and she told him that she thought she might be having a stroke. The man gathered information from her and offered to get help. He dialed 911 and was transferred to a 911 dispatcher near the woman's home. The woman was taken to a hospital where it was determined that she had, indeed, suffered a small stroke.
"I want this kid to be praised to high heaven," the woman said.
"I do not feel like I have done anything special," was the man's response. "I didn't save her, she found me."
Thanks to the kindness of a stranger, a misdial and not a "butt call", saved a life.
Do you ever make "butt calls"?
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