Sunday, June 07, 2009

The Vagaries of Voicemail

OK, I seriously need somebody to explain something to me.

Thursday evening, I went to a play. I turned off my phone and forgot to turn it back on again until Friday.

There were twenty-seven voice mail messages on there. Most of them were just background noise, but two or three of them had a woman's voice saying, "Ronni? Ronni..." In none of them did the caller identify herself or leave a number.

I checked my "incoming" and "missed" logs, and there were no numbers on there corresponding to twenty-seven voice mails. I mean, none. I could identify the numbers on there, and remembered when those calls came in. There was no "private," "unknown," or "out of state" designation, either.

Twenty-seven voice mails. No number from which they originated. How can this be?

15 comments:

  1. Oh, Ronni! Giving me the shivers on a Sunday.

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  2. Driver, I'm sure there is a rational explanation...like orbs on photos, ya know? I just don't know it yet...

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  3. I can explain, if your phone is off it won't register missed calls, because they go straight to voice mail (mine does the same thing). I don't know about the rest though, pretty weird.

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  4. OK, that makes me feel better...

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  5. I've had the same thing happen when my phone was on. (Insert theme from Twilight Zone here)

    The morning my son was broadsided by a hit and run driver, none of his calls to me were in the calls received log.

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  6. Very strange, Nadine...

    Last night, I got several calls from a Beaumont TX area code, but no message. I wonder why the caller didn't leave a message. I don't know anyone in Beaumont...

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  7. Is it possible it's a cell using a tower in Beaumont? I don't know enough about cell phones.

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  8. The area code on the phone number was a Beaumont one, but it was a cell phone, so who knows.

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  9. Eh, Like Chandra said, if the phone is off it wont register.

    As for 27 calls, it could be that someone kept on setting off redial by accident inadvertantly.

    I was on a date years ago and my sister listened to me talking to said date for a half an hour because I had set off redial by accident somehow.

    She also made fun of me for being a nervous Nellie on said date lol.

    That would explain mostly background noise in most of the calls.

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  10. Ronni:

    When you turn the phone off--you will not get the phone numbers on your phone. The call goes directly to voice mail.

    May show up on your phone bill at month's end.

    I only silence my phone--so this does not happen.

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  11. Good point, Susan...Chandra, can you hold onto the phone bill when it comes? I'd like to have a look.

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  12. You might also be able to look at your call log online and see before the bill comes.

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  13. Maybe Chandra could look it up for me. I'm on her family plan.

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  14. Well, I'd just got done reading a true ghost tales website, so I was ripe for haunting. Who knows? Maybe all these cell phones will create a cloud of . . . something . . . by which ghosts can enjoy enhanced reception. Like TV did, or was supposed to have done. Ghostly test patterns from long-ago TV stations.

    Jeez, chilly rain again this morning. We're on Reduced Calorie Summer or something.

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  15. I'll share--our mid-90s have begun, and we won't see cooler until October.

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