It's probably been a few years since I first heard of "pocket dialing"--phoning someone by accidentally pushing buttons on your phone while it's in your pocket or purse. The most frequent victims are people with names that start with A, like yours truly.
I got my first cell phone in May of 2005. I moved out on my own for the last time in September of 2007, which would have encouraged more people to put me (not just my family) in their list of contacts. Yet I don't think I was ever a victim of pocket dialing until this year. It's happened three times already and the year is still young. If I remember the first time right, a friend accidentally called me, realized it, and hung up. I saw his name on the Missed Calls list, so I called him back and he explained. The second time, it was the same guy, and I got to listen in on part of a conversation. Not an interesting conversation though. And today, my uncle accidentally called. I couldn't figure out who it was at first until he said my cousin's name. He probably still doesn't know he did that.
Why is this suddenly happening more than it was before? Did flip phones suddenly get less popular two months ago?
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As an "L" name, I don't really ever get pocket dialed.
My friend Aanand gets pocket dialed all the time though.
A friend in Calgary used to have an insane smartphone that got stuck on auto-redial for hours at a time. It would redial the last number called (usually me) at twenty-second intervals, and since it was usually in her purse on vibrate while it was doing this, I would end up calling her again and again to get her to turn her phone off. I think she finally got rid of it last year. It was senile right from the start. :-S
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