Here’s a new one – if you ring a mobile phone in Thailand you don’t hear *bring bring*. No. You hear twiddly Thai music until the recipient picks up. How weird is that? I assume the idea is to take your mind of how ******* expensive the call is.
Mind, it doesn’t work. At the risk of sounding like an advert, check out 18185. Along with several other similar businesses it lets you call mobiles and foreign countries for much cheaper than BT. Thailand (landline or mobile) for 4p connection fee then 1p/min after that. Eep.
All I have to do now is remember the 6-hour time difference (7 hours after our clocks go back) and not wake Louise up when I ring her.
Oops.
Time zones can be very evil things.
I’ve been on the wrong end of this before. Tried to ring my other half from Japan, convenienly forgetting the time difference – got into serious trouble.
Hehe. I rang a mate of mine in New Zealand a few weeks ago, at about 8:00 on a Sunday morning. No big shakes.
Only he’d moved and hadn’t ******* told me so I woke up a complete stranger. Whoops.
(Sigh) Since you got this new bird of yours you don’t call any more… we never do anything together… you’ve gone and forgotten all about your mates, haven’t you?
Evil is woman
‘cept Angelina
I once rang my brother to ask him if he was coming to the pub. He was in Hong Kong and it was half two in the morning.
So, no.