What the...?!?!

[Mouseferatu]

So, I had to actually get up at a decent hour this morning, since I had a dentist appointment at 9:00 am.

(There was not, actually, anything decent at all about the hour. Stupid expressions.)

Anyway, I'm leaving the dentist's office, and I flip open my cell phone to see what time it is. It's the first time I've opened the phone that day, and it tells me I've got a voice message from a phone call I missed at 3:31 am.

Okay... I can't imagine who'd be calling me at that hour, and I'm a little surprised the phone didn't wake me, so I listen to the message.

The caller? It's me. It's a message I left on my wife's cell phone/voice mail at roughly 3:30 pm the day before.



I can only assume there was some sort of really bizarre hiccup in the computer system, somewhere deep in the bowels of Verizon. I mean, she and I are on the same account. But still, I have difficulty imagining exactly what sort of glitch could cause something like that.

It was, if nothing else, a truly surreal experience.

 

[Mark CMG]

And you're sure you didn't switch phones?

 

[Belen]

It is the new cell line censor policy. All porn messages are returned at ungodly hours. You shouldn't leave those types of messages, you darn, dirty mouse!

 

[der_kluge]

I have to believe that only a perfect storm of system failures could produce such an odd result.

If you and her phones are on the same account, there's no doubt that they are linked together systematically.

It's possible that if there was a failure delivering the message to your wife's phone that it somehow got routed to yours as a failsafe, which might explain the time differential, since it might have been in a retry mode for hours and hours.

Still, bizarre.

 

[Mouseferatu]

And you're sure you didn't switch phones?

That was my first thought. But I checked and nope, I had mine. And I know I can't have misdialed the number, because I called her through my contacts list, and because I got her voice mail the previous day. :\

 

[Mouseferatu]

It's possible that if there was a failure delivering the message to your wife's phone that it somehow got routed to yours as a failsafe, which might explain the time differential, since it might have been in a retry mode for hours and hours.

Still, bizarre.

Except that it did deliver. She got the voice mail.

I dunno. Bizarre indeed.

 

[Jdvn1]

I have problems like this all the time. None this extreme, though.

 

[Crothian]

The call is coming from inside your house!!

 

[Gunslinger]

What service provider do you have? Last year I had a bunch of trouble through Verizon with getting voicemails and text messages hours after I should have.

 

[Alenda]

Belen wrote: "It is the new cell line censor policy. All porn messages are returned at ungodly hours. You shouldn't leave those types of messages, you darn, dirty mouse!"

And you speak from experience?