The 100 Blog Comment Event
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The 100 Blog Comment Event is a gathering where groups of 100 bloggers are tasked with commenting on each others posts. For this event, we each need to write that “epic” post- you know, the one that shows who you are and makes folks want to come back and read some more. So what does that mean for you, my reader? Well, you get to sit there and watch me sweat while I try to come up with something “epic”. Ha! So here goes…
I apologize in advance. I thought about showing new readers a crafty tutorial, but when I heard the word “epic”, I’m afraid that ridiculous thought patterns ensued. I couldn’t help myself. So I present to you:
The Butt-Call Phenomenon
About a week ago, my neighbor dropped by the house. Now before I go any further with this, I have to explain that I am a bit anti-social where the neighbors are concerned. This stems from a bad experience in my old neighborhood. Let’s face it, if you don’t get along with your neighbor, you still have to live right next door to them.
So I keep my distance. I’m friendly enough and will offer up a pageant wave when I see one of them, but for the most part, I keep to myself. Anyway, she pops by and does that horrendous act of ringing the doorbell.
The dogs HATE the doorbell with a huge doggy passion. The ringing of the doorbell signals the start of mass doggy bedlam in the form of spinning tazmanian devil-like creatures that bark their fool heads off. I have to stop whatever I’m doing, because I can’t even think over the noise, scoop up the dogs that I can catch and herd the rest out the back door where they run in a barking mass of fur flying frenzy to the gate so they can yap even louder at the culprit who had the audacity to ring the doorbell.
Ya know. The neighbor knows this. Why she insists on ringing the doorbell is beyond me. Turns out, she stopped by to invite me to an Ellie-May Makeup* party at her house the following weekend. I was non-commital and she told me that if I decided to come; just pop on over. I didn’t need to call.
Sure. No problem.
So that brings me to this past weekend. I’m in the grocery store with the husband doing the weekly chores when my cell phone rings. The neighbor is calling to remind me that the Ellie-May party would be that afternoon. I can come if I want, but no pressure. No need to call if I decide not to. She just wanted to remind me.
Okay.
So, I tell the husband about it. The problem I have with home parties is that I always feel obligated to buy something whether I want it or not. And then there’s that socializing thing. I have to sit around with a bunch of folks I don’t really know and make conversation. I don’t know if they are cool with my odd way of saying what I’m thinking, so I tend to sit in the corner and smile like the village idiot. And then do something ridiculous. You know, kinda like this…
And then there is the Ellie-May thing. I’m not a fan of the makeup. I’m more a Wal-Mart kind of girl. Just sayin’. The husband tells me to just call her back and tell her that I have errands to run and will not be able to make it. But thanks so much for the invite!
So that is what I do.
Have you ever experienced the “butt call” phenomenon? That is when someone owns a cell phone with automatic dialed numbers programmed in and unknown to them, their butt decides to call you from the cell phone in their back pocket.
Yep, my neighbor’s butt called me back.
The thing about butt calls is that while the butt is happy to call you, it never holds up it’s end of the conversation. BUT, you can certainly hear the conversation that is going on around it. And the conversation around my neighbor’s butt was making my ears burn.
“She said she cannot come now!”
“Oh that’s just great! Another last-minute back-out!”
“That means nobody is coming!”
“That’s a total bunch of crap!”
I softly hung up the phone. No sense in having a conversation with the neighbor’s butt. Apparently, it was mad at me anyway. Sigh.
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*Names have been changed to protect the innocent
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I am just laughing! Wow! She was ranting! She did say it was no need to RSVP, that was her first problem. You can’t do that with home parties. You make everyone accountable and nag them, lol.
I get butt calls from friends all the time but never anything good. Usually just shuffling the phone around in their purse. 🙁 I want a juicy one someday. LOL
~Allie
I sometimes call my own house pretending to be someone else. Surprisingly, it takes time before they realize it’s me 😛
lol this made me laugh. both the neighbor part and the butt dialing. thanks!!!
sometimes butt dialing can really bite you in the ars!!! hahahaha~
I liked that line the butt wasn’t happy with you anyway. lol.
We call this “pocket Dialing” . Sometimes they are rather fun to listen in on. I mostly get these calls from my Father-in-law because he works in construction and his phone is always getting triggered. IN that case, I just had the phone to my daughter and let her think she is talking to “papa”. lol.
Ohhh butt dialing, how I know many that have done it to me! One epic butt dialing incident in my college days from my then boyfriend for which we were on one of our infamous “breaks” and he was talking with his buddies about how this other buddy shouldn’t tie himself down and he doesn’t want to be anymore either. Hmmm, funny because it seems he likes to drop by to say “hi” to me every night including the night before that conversation! Needless to say, I hung up and dialed him back to tell him to not bother coming over to say hi anymore because I also didn’t want to be tied down! I think he was confused until he realized I heard everything he said! Butt dialing is dangerous and phones should have an anti-butt dialing feature on them!
I was glad it happened, traumatizing for my college self, but me now is so happy because now I have an AMAZING husband that loves me so much and respects me for who I am-even my flaws! Thanks for sharing and good luck with the neighbors, I have some really nice ones and others that make the elevator moments awkward!
hillarious!! and oh so true! 🙂
Oh goodness. I don’t think I have ever done that but my hubby has butt called me. Never been invited to a home party either. My neighbors are pretty nice.
That was a total and epic fail if ever I saw one, on her, well her butt! I dislike home parties with a passion. I do not attend either.
ROTF! I live in the country so I don’t have neighbors, for a reason! I also H.A.T.E. home parties and making conversation with people who don’t know I’m strange, and I am strange. I love that you got to hear the butt’s conversation. Maybe next time she won’t invite you at all, if you’re luck that is!
That is so funny. I love tutorials, but it is nice to have a good laugh. I hate those parties too. I don’t buy anything if I don’t want to though. And yes, small talk with people I don’t know well is never fun.
Thanks for sharing! I am heading to those tutorials next.
Oh, I’m always paranoid of doing that! I’m also paranoid that I haven’t hung up after my Skype call, and somehow my caller can still see me. Ah, technology…
I think something like this has happened to everyone. I usually end up giong to those parties and buy something like you said because I feel obligated. I don’t even want to think about how much money I have wasted over the years! 🙂
Ah the dreaded butt call. Luckily, I don’t think I have butt called anyone in quite a while, but I have been butt called – by my ex-boyfriend (who I am still good friends with) while he was driving somewhere with his new girlfriend (who I am also friends with). I could hear nothing but music, so I just hung up. On a funnier note, another ex-boyfriend (who I am still friends with) had a cat who would knock the land line phone off the hook and hit redial – and my number was always the last number dialed, so I would answer the phone and hear “Meow?” So that cat and I would have a nice little conversation and I would tell him to have Jon call me back later, then I’d hang up. Cat’s dialing the phone are much better than butt calls.
What a terrible butt-call that sounded like. I haven’t made a butt-call, persay, but I have been butt and pocket dialed quite a few times. Sometimes with voicemails that manage to last 10 minutes long. lol.
Great post. My husband has a tendency to but-call people. My son (23 months) just likes to steal my phone when I’m in the bathroom and call people. I often get call backs saying that they got a call and all they heard was baby talk or button mashing.
Haha, my MIL butt calls my phone CONSTANTLY! I haven’t heard anything yet, it’s usually her just walking to or from the car or something, but it’s still funny!
I hate parties like that! I wouldn’t feel bad, it’s not like you ever told her you were going.
Oh, we are cool. I never told her about the butt call, though. Ha!
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I do not care for those parties either. I hope you and your neighbor can one day be friends. Life is too short hold grudges.
Butt dialing, gotta love it! Good reminder for all of us not to say things about people that we wouldn’t say to their face.
I’ve had calls like that but was never able to know who they were from and what they were saying (usually just noise).
I feel sorry for your neighbor, but I guess it wasn’t the sort of party that people were interested in. It happens.
I don’t think I have ever done this to anyone (my phone flips closed. yes, it is a very basic phone), but I have been on the receiving end.
I too feel obligated to buy if I go, so I just don’t go. That is the easiest way to save money. It sounds like she heard what she wanted to hear, rather than what you actually said. What did you end up doing?
Oh no! Did you end up going? This sounds like a near-scarring experience. 😀
Having a name hat starts with an Ai tend to get an abundance of butt calls and small children calls. It was pretty fiunny talking to my dad once and asking him how he liked his lunch, because guess who got to hear him ordering on miles and miles away, lol.
LOL! I don’t think I’ve ever butt dialed, but I certainly have been on the receiving end of them!
I don’t blame you about not going. I’m not real fond of them myself, which is sad because I tried to sell something similar (it lasted a month!)
Hilarious.
My dogs hate the doorbell too! Well, I think they love it because they want to know who is on the other side. But they bark and bark an bark!
As for the butt call, I have received a few from my husband!
Ah, poor neighbor! 🙁 I wonder if she reads your blog! I think that actually I have made more butt calls than I’ve received!
Oh my goodness…I’ve had that happen to me. And I hate those parties too. 🙁
Wendy
Around My Family Table
I’m sure I’ve done that before. I’ll just remain happily oblivious, though! lol
Ahhh the butt call, gotta luv it. The best one I’ve received was from one of my husband’s friends at 2am…good fun getting the kids back to sleep and getting my heart to slooooow down. I like the post you chose, it’s given me a bit of an idea on who you are, now I can go browse your tutorials. Cheers.
Too funny! I’ve done that too my husband–thank goodness I wasn’t complaining about him when I did 🙂 Good reminder to be careful with my phone!
Oh that was good. I’d have to tell her I enjoyed hearing her conversation when her butt called me back.
I think that has happened to everyone! I’m glad I learned how to put my phone’s keys on lock…
This is too funny. I once butt called my friend 8 times, or should I say my cell phone did. She said she could here things going on (I was shoppping with my granddaughter) but I could not hear her screaming my name or telling me to stop calling her if I wasnt going to say HI!!. We got quiet a laugh out of that one. Thanks for sharing that story. I am sure many many many people can relate to it. Hey I have a question……can any of you remember when we didn’t have cell phones and you had to walk over to the one hanging on the wall to call a friend????? I can. Life seemd easier back then! Have a beautiful day.
I butt call more than I care to admit. Thank you for the great laugh!
I haven’t decided which is worse… a “butt” call or a kiddo who really isn’t old enough to know what they are doing but manages to do it anyway!
Very Funny! 🙂
I loved your story…very funny! I have been butt called by my husband but it’s usualy when he’s in his car so all I hear is the car motor.
My husband’s phone doesn’t make “butt” calls but it does make pocket videos. He has about twenty videos of the inside of his pocket. It also likes to turn on this one podcast almost every day and my husband can’t figure out what he has pressed or why that happens but it drives him a little bonkers when it happens.
Im the same way! While I would say I’m anti-social, I guess I really am. Hanging out with a bunch of female strangers, feeling ‘obligated’ to buy something you really don’t want… Yeah, I feel your pain! So not my thing!
I am always terrified of what my butt might say!
That’s the best butt call story I’ve heard! Generally you can’t hear anything that’s being said – which is probably better!!
Oh my goodness. Too funny. I am sure your neighbor would be super embarrassed!
I’ve encountered that many times.
BTW, i’ll dig in your site and look for interesting craft. I’m craftaholic! 🙂
I don’t like attending parties as well; especially if i don’t know who’s attending. And usually i am pressured to buy things that I don’t really like
I butt dialed my brother once- oops! At least there was no bad conversation going on when it happened
Classic scenario! I don’t like going to house parties either! I just don’t like the obligation to buy stuff.
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Now that is too funny. I’ve learned my lesson about getting too cool with the neighbors so, like you I just wave and keep on going. You know, she really hates you NOW!
Omg,we could totally be twins…we think exactly alike! And we have the same problem with dogs and doorbells…sometimes I wish I could just rip that thing out of the wall 😉
Funny I get. Crafts I don’t. So I liked this and will follow you on Twitter! 🙂
Okay I am still giggling and my family is giving me the “mom is out of her mind” look. Thank you soooo much for the laugh though!!
I honestly thought I was the only one who hated/dreaded these home parties. I will admit there have been a few that I enjoyed but 98% of them I do not. I always feel uncomfortable.
This really hit home though because I received an invite from a neighbor too recently. We have only been in the house for almost 6 years and they have avoided us like the plague until now. I cannot find the card, I am not sure if it was yesterday or not…..but not one car showed up there….and I was somewhat feeling bad.
My most memorable “butt call” was almost 12 years ago. My very-recent ex had a cell phone that he never locked. He was all the time butt-calling people. Even my parents, because he didn’t remove their numbers from his phone. *Right* after I broke up with him and listened to the sob story about how he loved me and couldn’t we try again, I got a phone call at work one Friday afternoon. His phone had called me while he was trying to set up a tent. On the camping trip with his *new girlfriend* and his son. It took me a few minutes to realize he had called by accident, and by then I had heard enough to figure out what was going on.
Gotta love when they butt dial you and you hear them talking ABOUT you!
Loved your epic post! I am not a fan of socializing in real life. I can do it just fine on the internet with other bloggers who have at least some basic understanding of my personality quirks, but parties in real life freak me out! I never know what to say, so I do the “idiotic grin” thing too. As for butt calls, I used to get them all the time from my brother-in-law. Luckily, it was the one I got along with, so I didn’t have to hear anything bad about myself. LOL.
I don’t know whether to laugh or offer {{hugs}}. That would have hurt my feelings for a minute and then I would have went off on the fact that I never said I WAS coming. 😉
Butt calls were awesome to me … until I heard my parents arguing over MY children. Did I let it go and hang up? Nope. I heard every word and when I next talked to my Dad, I let him know that I heard exactly what he thought of my parenting style and that I loved him anyway. 🙂
I am SO in love with those dogs that it’s not funny….. 😀
Ha! I’ve never made a butt call but I’ve made a hand call where I’ve accidentally called the wrong person I was thinking of and then have to talk to other person pretending I’ve got something to say!
Totally agree about the at home parties. Awkward butt dial! Made me smile
Haha! I am definitely subscribing to this blog. Epic post it was! (And I do enough crafty tutorials of my own, so I am much happier with this!)
butt calls! My father in law does them ALL THE TIME. Drives my husband crazy because it’s usually him that gets them. He usually here’s the tv blaring or the meetings he’s in or the cows mooing down on the farm. LOL. I’d have to say your neighbor was desperate for sure. I also feel obligated every time I go to a house party. But I’m not the kind of person who actually calls and says I can’t make it… I just don’t go. And if it’s a friend they’ll understand.
I must be the exception because everywhere I have lived I have had really nice neighbors and now I am in a small apartment complex and most of them are in my house at least once during the week. I try not to attend parties as I have a small one who would want to go but since I am in those businesses I do order as I know some of the companies have quotas and I hope they in turn would order from me if I ever needed it. As for butt calls I have made them and they are not cool.
lol! I guess that’s one reason to be thankful I don’t have a cell phone!
some butt calls have given hilarious fodder for entertainment tho!!
Such a funny story! We usually say we have been “butt dialed” when we get a call like that. My brother butt dials people all the time. We’ve never got to hear a funny conversation because of it though.
Funny. Happens to us all, right?
I have only been butt called once or twice but it is a regularly happens to my husband’s work phone from co-workers.
That was SO funny! Fortunately, I don’t store phone numbers in my phone’s memory — I must be one in a million, but look what I keep out of!
I can’t believe how many of your comment people have never heard of a butt call. My daughter texted me once and said “your butt called me, please tell it to stop”. It was hilarious at the time.
This is way too funny….A butt call? Ha ha…I’ll remember this for a long time!
That was hysterical! And definitely epic! Good job! 🙂
That’s funny. I had a butt call once and I am so glad that it ended up being to my mom. Her voicemail got a three minute long message of the conversation I was having with the bf. haha.
Oh man, how embarrassing!! I never heard it called a “butt call” though. LOL. We live on 3.5 acres with a fence around our property and I so totally love that no one can knock on the door. I’m just anti-social like that. Also, I never get invited to any “parties” because everyone knows I’d have to drive such a LONG way in. I feel a little sorry for your neighbor. Just think how uncomfortable it would have been had you caved in and gone and were the only one attending? Eek!
My butt is all the time calling people. Oh yeah, and it never stays mad for long, so don’t worry about your neighbor.
As for those dreaded parties, I just say NO up front. I am the girl who does not go to those, no exceptions. It is great because I don’t have to make anyone feel bad, I just tell them I don’t do any of those parties. I rarely get asked anymore. The word has gotten out. Try it!
So funny i can honestly say ive never heard of a butt call lol.
That is quite the story. I went to a party once and I was the only guest, which was also super awkwar so either way if you would have gone, it would have been just as bad making ho-hum conversation.
The best part of butt calls in when they are talking nasty about you when they were just completely nice to you on the phone (similar to your situation). Once my butt decided to call my mom from a concert. She answered thinking it was a song that I wanted her to hear (though I don’t generally call her during shows so I’m not sure why she thought that) but she said she was listening so intently trying to figure out what was being sung, when the song ended, everyone cheered and the next song started. Then she realized I had no idea that I had called her (My phone doesn’t even show a call to her in the log!) After that I got a lock for my phone so until my butt figures out how to plug in my “secret code” I think I’ll be safe from making butt calls!
I miss my doorbell – it hasn’t worked in years. I don’t have crazy dogs, though. Just a fairly laid-back cat.
I have experienced the butt-call phenomenon on a few occasions.
Too funny. I get butt calls from my dad all the time – while he’s at work. He’s got to have the most boring job in the world. Oh well…let me know if you find a way to fix the barking dog at the doorbell issue. I’ve tried everything!
I am soooo glad to know I am not the only ones that does things like this! My hubby is the one that usually gets the calls.
Your post is so funny I have received a few butt calls. I also do not do the party thing but I do like getting a catalog to look at and once in a while will place an order.
oh my goodness you are EXACTLY like me i love it!! I don’t feel so “anti-social” now horay! I also don’t talk with my neighbors… bad times… bad times… lol gonna follow you now since you act just like me lol!
Love your post, sooo funny with the butt call,lol. I’m so much the same way with neighbors, I’ve actually become a hermit, which I know is not good, but oh well, have a good one, oh the dogs are sooo cute!!!
I LOVE this post. I am the same way with my neighbors. I’m hardly ever home and when I am, I don’t necessarily want neighbors spending the evening. I’ve never had a butt call, but it would probably be similar. Have a great Blog Comment Event!
Yep, seems like a lot of us have been there, done that….butt calls and being invited to a “party” that you don’t want to go to. I would rather be out picking up dried up cow patties then to do either one of those. YEP! I’m a country gal, even though I live in a city nowadays. Try putting a sign up next to the door bell “Warning, ringing this bell will cause you great pain”. HEY, its worth a try. Take care, hope you had an enjoyable weekend anyway.
ROFL…loved this post…really made me laugh! I am so just like this….except I get a catalog and order form and give the hostess a small order to make up for NOT going to the party:( Butt calls are dangerous!
I love your way of writing…. and yes I had a dog and I know a few things …. I had german shepard and was he strong…GOD!! LOL
Oh my goodness. lol I hate butt calls. Both sending and receiving.
HILARIOUS! 🙂
I SO hope your neighbor reads this post! Perhaps she’ll learn to lock her keyboard. ; )
You’re not alone. I’m the same way about neighbors & the parties. I always say no, because it’s never anything I’d want to buy and no matter what they say it is a party to get you to buy something (or want to sell it). Clearly we’re not alone in that if no one else wanted to go!
This is too classic. First of all – I feel totally the same about neighbors and parties etc…And don’t get me started on the whole dog thing – your dogs appear to be small but picture the same activities with an English Mastiff and Newfoundland. Sure I can catch them but I cannot MOVE them. It is their way or no way. And on to the BUTT call – yup – been there.
LOL! It’s so great knowing that there are still “real” people out there!
Thanks for the laughs. Great way to start my day!
LOL!!!! I would have said “No” simply because she rang the doorbell 🙂 It’s the same at my house; if you ring the doorbell pandemonium ensues and I am usually worn to a frazzle by the time I get to “the ringer”. I love the pictures of your fur babies and I love your blog!
Katy
Suzy,
You are so funny, I think everyone has experienced a butt call a time or two.
ROFL, excellent 😀
I just got a butt call the other night…after midnight…from the butt of someone who was out at a club.
Oh I laughed! I once had a butt call from my ex-mother-in-law. Oh my! Unprintable! But this, this was a delight and I love you for writing it. Epic, indeed!. And I’m with you all the way on being anti-social. I have nice neighbours and I know how lucky I am.