615: Avoidance

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Avoidance

Title text: Hobby: seeing how many menu selections you can get someone to go through before they realize you're not an automated system and/or hang up.

Explanation

Megan gave her number to Cueball at a party, but now doesn't want to talk to him. Because Megan works with recording voice messages at Verizon, she can with no effort put on the characteristical semi-lifeless tone of professional automated answers, and answer the phone with the "call cannot be completed"-message. Perhaps it was even she who recorded it in the first place.

The title text is a reference to Randall's Hobby series and can be interpreted as Reverse Turing test with Cueball imitating an Interactive voice response system.

Transcript

[Cueball is sitting in a chair holding a phone to his ear while his Cueball-like friend talks to him.]

Friend: Did you call that hot girl from the party yet?

Cueball: I've been trying.

[In a frame-less panel Cueball looks at his phone and talks to his friend.]

Cueball: It's weird. I swear I got her the first time. But now it says the number's wrong.

[Zoom in on the friend, Cueball talking to him off-panel.]

Friend: What did you say she did, again?

Cueball (off-panel): Voice work. At Verizon, I think.

Cueball (off-panel): Why?

Friend: No reason.

[Megan is talking into a phone, in an italic voice. Cueball's remark is shown emanating from the phone with a zig-zag line, also the click from haning up the phone is shown like that.]

Megan: We're sorry, your call could not be completed as dialed.

Cueball (over the phone): Damn.

*Click*

Megan: Please check the number and try again.

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Discussion

Randall, being male, obviously doesn't know that if the woman isn't interested in the guy asking for her number she will just give a made-up number! -- The Cat Lady (talk) 16:04, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

"I swear I got her the first time." Perhaps she was interested at first, but lost interest and is doing this in hopes he'll stop contacting? Tsumikiminiwa (talk) 23:40, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Mmmmm, sweet sweet stereotyping. 172.70.85.221 14:11, 19 August 2022 (UTC)