Miss Rhino
In my other life, I do promotions for
Zippo at concerts. It's an amazing job. I get to go to concerts for free and all I have to do is give away prizes for a few hours. And as an added bonus, I get to meet a lot of cute boys.
Last weekend I was working at the 311 concert when I happened upon a nice young gentleman. I did the usual "Hi! Would you like to win a free lighter from Zippo?" and he took the bait. We exchanged names, where we lived, the whole nine yards. Meanwhile, I'm discreetly leading him over to the Zippo tent. What kind of a promotions girl would I be if I wasn't always trying to make a sale. He eventually asked for my number to which I responded: "Will you buy a lighter?" A little quid pro quo action never hurt anyone right?
This guy essentially paid $35 dollars for my number. Color me flattered. He called my phone so I would have his and made me promise to call him soon so we could go out.
Before the concert was over, I decided to send him a text: "Enjoy your lighter ;)" No response. Finally, around 1 a.m. I got an answer back from him.
"Enjoy my lighter? Who is this?"
It took a whole series of text messages reminding him about our entire conversation and a friend request on Facebook before he finally remembered meeting me. Not only was I completely embarrassed but I felt a little bit bad. I had convinced a guy who apparently was completely blacked out to buy a $35 dollar lighter. This is a cautionary tale. Drinking heavily does not pay, people.
This is just another addition to a long list of drunken number exchanges that have occurred in my 22 years of living. Only thing different was that I was the sober one this time. I went through my contact list in my phone and realized, I do this more often than I thought.
"Brian met at Dark Horse"
"I hated you at Sona 13"
"Longhorn shirt grasshopper"
"Ohasvju"
Who are these people?? And why are they in my phone book?
What about you? Can you safely say that you know every person in your contact list?
Comments (41)
Yes. Yes I can.
No. Sadly, there are a few people in there that I don't completely remember.... xD
Yes. Yes I can.
Yup, I sure can.
i dont quite remember some of them.
That is why I don't drink.
And no, I don't have a cell phone..
- Kunoichi
when a stranger calls, fuck with their heads. that's what i do. for pranks too. the other day a blocked number called me and started acting like a psycho so i was like ha, 2 can play this game. so in the most obnoxious voice possible i said "um hi this is judy, short for judith, are you calling for my exterminating business?"
I do know everyone in my phone's contact list. Not all of them know me, though. Pricks. Appearently I don't make that much of an impact. I really should delete some of these numbers... it's like I'm lying about how many people I'm cool with... cuz not all of these people necessarily like me...
i think i know just about everyone on my contact list in my phone. sometimes i save people's number in my phone but if i don't recognize it later, i just delete it.
I do know every person there. Except I came across a Jacob the other day & I have to firgue out which one it is....
I know a Jacob but how I got his number is beyond me.
hahaha
i know absolutely every contact on my phone list. even if i just met the person once, i usually don't put their numbers into my cell. actually, i wait until i've known the person for a couple of weeks and then i search for the loose scrap of paper they wrote their number down on in my room. once i find the paper, i plug their number into my cell. if i end up not talking to that person for a while, i end up deleting it (which i have found myself doing to quite a lot of people). most of my friends keep their long list of contacts in their phones just to show off to people that they are so called "popular" and have so many people as their friends. when in reality, they only know about twenty of those people out of their one hundred and fifty different contacts. i on the other hand just have my list of about tweleve or thirteen that i regularly talk to underneath my contacts. i dont even bother keeping their numbers if i'm not going to regularly talk to them. (but i do keep their loose scraps of paper just in case that "stranger" number decides to call my phone) =)
Eek! I don't dare give out my number to strangers like that. That's kind of funny how that guy didn't remember and still paid you money for a lighter he didn't know he was buying.
yes. i don't give my number to strangers.
xo
@KrazeeKunoichi009@xanga - "This is why I don't drink."<--My thoughts exactly.
when I had my phone, I knew everyone on the list. On MSN I don't know everyone but I have talked to them. Most of the people I have on there that I don't know, I've had on there for years. I some what know them, but only on the Internet.
I don't have these fun adventures.
I'm not a drunk so I know everyone in my contact list
Nope, not everyone.
I know everybody in my contacts.
Yeah I know everyone on my contacts, I never drunk-gave-away my number as of yet.
I only have my friends in my contacts - anyone I don't know I delete. Same goes for Facebook, if I can't picture your face by reading your name, you get deleted periodically.
I don't give away my contact number to strangers. It's like handing out keys to my house.
yeah, I know everyone in my contact list.
Yes.
Actually I can tell you that I do know everyone in my contacts. I put down friends of the family, my parents work numbers, my own friends, family members...I'd have to say that I think having contacts on your phone is a good thing. What if you were put into a car trunk by some crazy person? And you had your cell phone in your pocket. It'd probably be a good idea to not only call 911 (while in the trunk of the mental person's car) but to call a family member and to stay on the line for as long as you can.
But, if you do see something glowing in the trunk that has the words "Open Trunk Here" it'd be a great idea to pull it and once the trunk is open to jump out of the trunk and run for your life.
And once your out of the trunk and running for your life. Call someone on your cell phone and tell them what road your on...what the surroundings look like...what color the car was...what the person looked like that put you in the trunk...etc.
I know...the trunk idea was a random idea...but its mostly true.
Haha thats okay. I have a couple 'descriptions but no name' contacts in my phone too.
We're so silly.