Public Service Announcement

[athelind]

If your phone number comes up on my display as "Blocked", don't bother calling my cell phone. I not only won't answer you, it'll just wind up pissing me off for the next half-hour.

Heck, if I'm in convenient glancing range of the landline's caller ID, I still won't answer a blocked number.

Much as I hate people who answer privacy concerns with "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide", in this particular case -- well, yeah. If you were someone I wanted to talk to, you'd let me see who you were before I picked up. Therefore...

Comments

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I can think of only one good reason, off the top of my head, to block a number when you're calling out, and it's one I've used regularly. If I have to call home about a student's behaviour from my home, I will block the number out of concern for my own privacy. If the parent doesn't pick up, I'll try the next day from school, where i don't have to block the number. But the last thing I need is for some kid with a beef to get hold of my home phone number.

[storm-dragon.livejournal.com]

(blocks his number and calls you) Because I'm evil! Evilevilevil!! };)>

[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

My dad set up my phone before I got here, so don't blame me.

[kolchis.livejournal.com]

Phonecards could also result in this sort of blockage, now that I think about it.

Is there anybody who would be calling you with a phonecard?

[tikaani.livejournal.com]

I've used a couple of phonecards (got them free for whatnot), and "we have the technology"--they pass through the number you are calling from.

[taral.livejournal.com]

If you call with a blocked number, expect to have to leave a message and wait for me to call back. It's as simple as that.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

You check your messages?

[taral.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it seems that checking my messages is preferable to not checking my messages.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

I don't have land-line caller ID, but numbers I don't know (blocked or not!) get left to voice mail. Because I've found out that my cell number shares its last four digits with a popular (though I think they suck...) pizza place in the area. As for the first three digits... Try pressing the keys on a phone but miss the top row and hit the middle row instead and... you get my number. So yeah, I've had to tell people that I don't have pizza for them, nor will I ever. Now I just let it go to voice mail... They hear the message and figure it out, and if it's important and they really *do* mean to call me, they leave a message.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Oh... uh... Happy Birthday!