
I’m sure you’ve had a call where nobody responds and all you can hear is vague unidentifiable sounds in the background. That’s because someone forgot to lock their phones keypad while wearing it in their pocket/purse.
I myself have had around 5-7 of these calls trough the years, where around half where rather lengthy messages left on my answering service.
Personally I don’t think this is a big problem, but as chance would have it (and I have to emphasize the word chance here), the following event was kind of embarrassing
I just got a message from my mom where she asks me what kind of messages I send out late Sunday night.. I have not used my phone to send messages for at least a week, so I check the “sent messages”, and there are 2 messages to my mom, 1 of which is empty..
And before I tell you the contents of the second message, I would like to note that these messages where sent at 00:30 night to Monday. That means the phone was in my house, there where no visitors, and I was wide awake and did not operate the phone in my sleep. to quote Sherlock Holmes
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
This means the message sent was a result of several random pushes to the phones keypad, “however improbable” they might be. My mom is first on the alphabetical list of people on my phone, and thus it does not seem unlikely that she would be the recipient of such an accidental message.
But let’s get to the point, here are the actual keys that had to have been pressed:
- joystick is pushed left, which opens the “new message screen”
- the numbers 585 are pressed on the keypad
- the “ok” button is pressed 6 times (to go trough the address book, etc..)
- The steps above results in the message being sent
The problem here comes from the fact that 585, with my phones dictionary spells “kuk” or in English:”cock”, which on it’s own is a very popular and widely used Norwegian insult.
Now luckily my mom has a sense of humor, and we can laugh about this. I guess it could be worse if it was sent to my boss or something..
I’ve enabled automatic locking of the keypad now