Posted on 11/30/2004 7:12:32 PM PST by Pharmboy
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls.
A survey of 409 people by Virgin Mobile, a joint venture of The Virgin Group and Optus, found 95 percent made drunk calls.
Of those calls, 30 percent were to ex-partners, 19 percent to current partners, and 36 percent to other people, including their bosses.
The company also found that 55 percent of those polled would grab for their phone first the next morning to check who they had drunkenly dialed, compared with just eight percent who went for the headache pills first.
Unfortunately I know someone who does exactly that. The only problem with her is that I don't believe she regrets it afterwards.
AH, but do they offer it for e-mail as well? A friend of mine wrote several HIGHLY regrettable e-mails in a haze a few years back... some personal, some international... yow.
Good point...someone notify the manufacturers of Blackberrys at once.
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