Monday, February 15, 2010

Text to landline service

This is weird.
I assume that this has something to do with this service, but I don't know for sure.
I got a "text message" on my land line in the form of a automated voice mail.
Unfortunately, I don't know who left it, because I haven't memorized anyone's phone numbers and I couldn't reach my cell phone fast enough to check who's number it belonged to. The crappy thing is that there's no way of listening to the number of who sent it again. Sure, I can listen to the message, but that wasn't going to help me.
Anyway, there's probably a big chance that the person that sent it will read this and tell me, because I would like to know to properly respond.
But yeah, the service is weird, because it forces me to listen to a creepy robotic lady's voice.
And this isn't the first time that I've gotten such a message either. Maybe I should tell more people my cell phone number?

Edit: Nevermind. I figured out who it was. I had the reverse whitepages website pulled up just in case it happened again tonight. I'm pretty sure in this case, they thought they were calling a cell phone.

2 comments:

shima mirkarimi said...

Yep, I totally thought I was texting your cellphone. d'oh.

I've actually done this a number of times.. and it's embarrassing each time. I think it's because I assume that I only have people's cell phones and not landlines..

*L* said...

Yeah, I figured as much. I knew that one was from you given the context for the message, but some of the others I got were more general and I couldn't figure out who they were from. Luckily, they caught on that they were texting a land line as well and texted me their name.
I think it's a pretty safe assumption that most of the numbers that you have are for cellphones. I'm just one of the few who like to have a land line and still use it as my main contact number.