Friday, September 25, 2009

Caller Blocked

I just got asked on a date by someone calling from a blocked number. Have I become one of those people that you have to trap into answering the phone? Maybe it was an accident, but it got me to thinking about the whole concept.

It's a thoroughly weird situation really. I'm sure I've done it in the past, although not for a while. You know, when you think someone might be avoiding you, so you switch of the number sending on your phone and call them to trick them into answering. The key thing here is - surely their lack of answer is enough of an indication that they might not actually want to talk to you. Do you need a bigger signal? And is someone who needs to be tricked into answering the phone really going to be keen to go out with you?

Someone accused me of performing this trickery last year sometime when I had the number sending turned off for some other reason (think needing to call someone who you don't want to have your number). My first thought was how entirely counter productive it was - I mean unless you had something really really important to tell them, why would you bother? Who wants to talk to someone that doesn't want to talk to them anyway?

The human mind really does work in mysterious ways.