Chapter 15 Telephone

2000/04/13 Sanlian Life Weekly Author: Lao Le I was told that there are generally 3 required props in a horror movie, one of which is a white phone.Unfortunately my home phone happens to be white, and I often get some rings that I pick up and can't hear, or even calls from my long-dead relative.Looking back on it like this, it really creeps me out.Indeed, the scary thing about the phone is that you only know it's ringing but not who it is. Things got better with the pager.The advantage of a pager is that you don't have to react immediately, and you have enough time and information to make a judgment; the disadvantage is that you cannot directly contact the person who called you, and it will be very troublesome if you make a wrong call and leave no phone number.Back then, I received a message from a strange lady at 3:00 in the morning asking me to meet at a place called "Shawo" right away.At that time, I just had a pager, so I called the pager very seriously and asked the paging lady for a long time.Now that I've learned how to behave well, I won't respond to the wrong calls such as "see you at the old place of the police station" anytime.But our lady in Hutai is also really dedicated, and will send any kind of message.The most thrilling message I have received so far is: "Mr. Dong Cunrui: I have received the explosive package you sent."

But these are nothing compared to the experience of one of my colleagues.He used to receive wrong calls from a strange lady for several nights in a row. Thankfully, I now have a cell phone again.Not only the phone number of the other party can be displayed on the mobile phone, but sometimes the name of the other party can also be displayed.What's even better is that some mobile phones can group received calls and then use different ringtones to represent them.In this way, before answering the phone, you can know what to expect, prepare the appropriate tone and wording, and even decide the speed of answering the phone.For example, whenever I heard "Matador Dance" playing, I knew it was the boss who was looking for me.However, there is a problem with this, because after all, there are only 5 groups, and I know far more than 5 people.So I imagined that I could record everyone's favorite music on the phone as their own ringtone.In this way, the entire movement of "Elysium", "Kiss of the Rose", "Evening of the Times" or even a Mahler symphony may appear on my mobile phone.But in addition to fantasizing, I am still afraid.I'm afraid that sometimes I just want to listen to that piece of music and don't want to answer the phone, or the long-awaited music will never sound, so I have to go to the place where the ringtone is set to add a few minutes of melancholy to myself out of thin air.