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Topic: You're drunk...who you gonna call?
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Hephaestion
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Babbler # 4795
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posted 09 December 2004 03:03 AM
Tooooooooooo funny!! quote: CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls.A survey of 409 people by Virgin Mobile, a joint venture of The Virgin Group and Optus, found 95 percent made drunk calls. Of those calls, 30 percent were to ex-partners, 19 percent to current partners, and 36 percent to other people, including their bosses. The company also found that 55 percent of those polled would grab for their phone first the next morning to check who they had drunkenly dialed, compared with just eight percent who went for the headache pills first.
From: goodbye... :-( | Registered: Dec 2003
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Debra
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Babbler # 117
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posted 09 December 2004 08:08 AM
quote: Originally posted by 'topherscompy: i don't use the phone after drinking, not since the time i got that automated buh-duh-da-dup -- the fingers you have used to dial this number are too fat. to obtain a special dialing wand, mash the keypad now. message. talk about your wild'n'crazy fortnight.what i need is an instant hunt down and baleet that last email service. or that little paperclip dude to pop up and ask "are you sure you want to tell your _sister_ that you _always thought we were a good couple_ and that you _wish we could have just one more night together to prove it_ "
Well I'm going to pretend I didn't see the sister bit. But yes I would pay for the email blocking. We drinkers need to chant to ourselves NO drunken phoning, NO drunken posting, NO NO NO NO drunken emailing.
From: The only difference between graffiti & philosophy is the word fuck... | Registered: Apr 2001
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Michelle
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Babbler # 560
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posted 09 December 2004 08:13 AM
This is funny!I didn't know this was such a widespread problem. I knew someone once who was prone to doing such things, but I didn't realize so many people did that. Maybe I've just never been that drunk, or just not prone to it, but I've never done that. No desire to do so whatsoever. Usually when I'm drunk, I'm having a great time with friends. And when I get home, I'm just ready to crash. No phone calls necessary. I once called an ex-boyfriend when stone-cold sober, just to hear his voice (this was more than a decade ago). I lost my nerve and said "wrong number" and hung up when someone who sounded like him answered, and then agonized for days afterwards that he might have had call display and known who it was. Maybe that cured me from ever calling ex-boyfriends again, I don't know.
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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paxamillion
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posted 09 December 2004 02:28 PM
quote: Originally posted by 'topherscompy: you forgot the other two options:
And you were missing .... 5. Stay sober. I've had trouble with AA sponsees calling in the wee hours while drunk and in a blackout. I turn off my phone at bed time now. Thing about that service is that people who "aren't social drinkers" might not be willing to admit that they consistently cause problems to others and might decide against using the it.
From: the process of recovery | Registered: Jul 2002
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verbatim
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Babbler # 569
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posted 09 December 2004 06:00 PM
Hi, my name is Tim, and I have(1) Emailed (2) Telephoned, and (3) Posted here while drunk. Once during a blackout. However, I don't own a cellphone, (although I have in the past) so this isn't something I'd need.
From: The People's Republic of Cook Street | Registered: May 2001
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paxamillion
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posted 10 December 2004 12:32 PM
Hey, Michelle, thanks for these great questions.... quote: Originally posted by Michelle: Just curious...doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of being a sponsor? What if it's the wee hours and someone hasn't taken a drink yet, but they're just about to? Isn't that a legitimate reason to call?
Defeat it? Not at all. First, there are no hard-and-fast rules for what defines the sponsorial relationship. It's up to the sponsor and sponsee to work out what's best. In our area, there is a 24-hour AA answering service that can be called, too. I suffer from a mental illness beyond my alcoholism. Sleep disruptions aren't good for that. I'm up front with prospective sponsees about late nights, and encourage them to build phone lists of people they can call in addition to me. I work with my sponsees on how to do 12-step work, and how to apply the principles of our fellowship to the real problems they face. I'm also perfectly okay with someone having more than one sponsor -- quite okay according to our literature.
quote: Originally posted by Michelle: This is a real question, not a grilling - I guess I just sort of assumed sponsors were 24 hour deals. Another thing - if someone has fallen off the wagon and they've gotten drunk, does that mean they shouldn't call their sponsor? Or does it mean that they just shouldn't call them in the middle of the night since there's nothing the sponsor can do about it at that point anyhow?
I don't feel grilled, and I appreciate the questions. What would you say to someone already drunk on your phone? I say that the person should call me back when the drunk wears off. It's very hard to talk sense to a drunk.
From: the process of recovery | Registered: Jul 2002
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