The Call of the Wild

Drunk dialing will only get you in trouble, no doubt about it. I’ve never heard of a positive drunk dialing experience, and that’s because there is no such thing.

I always drunk-dial people and leave these embarrassing messages. Sometimes I call my ex-girlfriend and have an emo breakdown about how much I miss her. I always wake up the next morning and feel appalled by my call log from the night before. I can’t just leave behind my cell phone when I go out at night, but I need to stop doing this! My friends think it’s hilarious. But what to do?

Good news! Though it’s not available yet in the United States, Virgin Mobile, at some point, will begin offering a service that allows cell phone users to block themselves from dialing numbers late at night. Cost of blocking call to ex-girlfriend at 2 a.m.? Seventeen cents. Cost of blocking call to your boss or professor? Priceless. (Well, it’s 17 cents. But you get the idea.)

With my phone blocked I’ll have to explore the danger of drunk Facebooking or even drunk texting. It’s never-ending, this need to reveal all my feelings to anybody who answers their phone.