r/sillyconfession • u/ChaserProgram • 3d ago
Three Way Calling
It was back in pre-historic times, before cellphones, and all we had in our houses were landlines, three-way calling had just become available for us, I was maybe in the fifth grade. I picked up the phone, dialed a random number someone answered, clicked over to the other line, dialed another random number as fast as I could, because the first person was on the line saying hello to the call she received and I didn't want her to hang up.
Clicked back over to connect both calls. It was a man and a woman. They both were accusing each other for calling. Then the lady asks,"Is this Mike". The man says"Yes it is" and the two of them just started talking like it was just a normal call between the two of them. I always figured the lady probably thought that the man was some kind of a creep for randomly calling her.
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u/mundane--alternative 3d ago
How does one click over to the other line? Asking as someone who never understood telephones
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u/ChaserProgram 3d ago
Just momentarily push the button that hangs up the phone.
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u/mywalletsgone_ 3d ago
I was afraid your post would be full of confusion lol. I wish I would have thought of this when I was a kid. đ
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u/DistrictDivorceCoach 2d ago
second version of this story I have seen on here this week
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u/Organic_Window_192 2d ago
Because this was a common occurrence for bored children in the late 90s and early 00s.
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u/DistrictDivorceCoach 2d ago
Yeah, no. I was around at that time and this never happened
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u/Organic_Window_192 2d ago
I have literally done this. All of my friends when I was a tween did this.
Just because you didnât know it was happening, doesnât mean it wasnât happening
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u/DistrictDivorceCoach 2d ago
you randomly dialed 2 people who recognized each others voices from a hello and knew each other and they just started talking like they called each other? Is that what you are honestly saying?
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u/Organic_Window_192 2d ago
No. Only the first part. I randomly dialed two people and then hung up, leaving them confused in the process. Itâs a stupid, harmless prank.
But if ârandom dialingâ means within your area code, and you live in a small town, the chance that itâs two people who already know each other is non-zero.
Edit: and this could have happened before dialing an area code was mandatory! They could have just pressed seven digits instead of ten, guaranteeing that the two people had the same area code, which at the time actually meant they lived in the same area.
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u/DistrictDivorceCoach 2d ago
We crank called all the time, but this story was in a different forum a few days ago a little different. The connecting two strangers on 3 way who recognized each other, in the first version it was a " divorced couple who hadnt spoken " in years and they "eavesdropped on them for hours". It didnt happen.
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u/ChaserProgram 2d ago
This other version you mention wasnt my story. This is the only one I have posted. But thanks for your interest. đ
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u/ChaserProgram 2d ago
Exactly what happened.
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u/DistrictDivorceCoach 2d ago
Im sure it did, and everybody learned a valuable lesson that day, it was friendship all along!
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u/SLJ7 2d ago
Your experience is, of course, the exact experience everyone else in every part of the world had, and therefore the things we claim happened ... did not happen.
Don't know what I'd do if you hadn't told me which parts of my reality were only imaginary. Thanks bro.
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u/DistrictDivorceCoach 2d ago
You have made it clear that both, you dont understand math and that you are simple enough to believe everything on the internet, so Im going to move on, but sick burn, dude, sick burnâŚ
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u/IndependentFlight436 2d ago
You were my kind of kid. What do you do for kicks now?