A girl in our office...
...just asked out loud for someone's phone number.

"I have it in my mobile" proclaimed I.
"Oh fab" she responded. I ambled over to her desk, trawling through the directory of numbers on my handheld communication device.
"Here it is..." I declared "...are you ready?"
"Yep"
"OK, it's 0-1-2-3-4 5-6-7-8-9"
"That's a digit short"
"Have another look"
"It's still a digit short"

FFS...
(SonoraAeroClub "OH SWEET HELEN OF BALLS!", Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:07, 17 replies)

Like this!
*click*
(Lizard King, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:09, closed)

Trying to call Bedford, eh?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:09, closed)

I'm struggling to see here
why the fact you are an arse who thinks acting like a 6 year old is funny makes her astonishingly stupid, really?

No offence, like.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:10, closed)

Should have told her the last digit was Ten.
( Allisade would love to hear from you, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:19, closed)

sorry
I mist be thick too as I cant see it...
(scowners shagged his mum on, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:24, closed)

I
mist be too.
(dchurch bah, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 22:41, closed)

This might be my display of ignorance
I don't get it.
(Bababoon, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 18:42, closed)

I told someone at work that someone they wanted to call was on extension 6969
(our extension numbers only went up to 2000)

They tried and it didn't work so I said no, it really is 69 69.

Took a while, but to be fair I sounded pretty convinced so it wasn't just her not being particularly sharp.
( thistle, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 21:54, closed)

But that is a digit short.
I don't get it.
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 22:49, closed)

I suspect (hence the reason for my abuse)
he/she thinks they are funny, because when asked for a number for someone they just went "0123456789"

Literally. The "joke" is not that it is a digit short but that it obviously isn't the number the person wanted, as it's sequential.

Because, you know, when you politely ask for a number obviously you deserve abuse for not spotting such a piece of comedy GOLD.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 10:47, closed)

I assumed it had been rendered as 0123456789 for privacy's sake, rather than posting someone's real number.

( Bob Todd whee, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 12:09, closed)

That's what I assumed as well. Oh well, lol good joke etc.

( gone, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 19:23, closed)

well, then there is no joke and no idiocy, which is even more pointless.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 10:10, closed)

*scratches his head*
It's a digit short...
( snee held his breath since, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 8:26, closed)

Yep
It's a digit short, 01234 is Bedford and all the numbers are six digit numbers, so it's either 01234 567890, or, more likely, seeing as some time in the early '90s, if I remember correctly, they added a 3 in front of the local number, it's 01234 356789
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 10:06, closed)

I can't believe she didn't know that
a right retard.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 2:19, closed)

**the sound of crickets chirping**

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 12:48, closed)