21 Oct
1998
21 Oct
'98
7 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
For your sake I hope you didn't answer the phone.
When I was in the Navy I
made the mistake of answering the phone. Next thing I knew I was halfway
across the base half out of uniform, grilled, and then left to find my own
way back to the ship.
Derek Peschel replied:
I don't get it. Am I confused or is this a silly
joke?
If you don't answer the phone then you don't know what the caller wants.
(OK, you could have Caller ID, but a random number -- which may be a pay
phone -- doesn't automatically mean "bomb threat".)
The point wasn't that you shouldn't answer the phone if it's a bomb threat.
The point was that you're unfortunate if you happen to be the poor slob that
*does* answer the phone when it happens to be a bomb threat, because you
can expect quite a grilling by the police/military/whoever.