Just now I received a fairly hilarious phone call from a very friendly Texas resident. He had what seemed like a very strange request. He asked me for the character that results in pressing shift on a keyboard and pressing a few numeric keys (i.e. 4 = $). Turns out old Byron was having to log into a password protected account with his iphone. The password contained special characters. Because the special characters are on a different keypad on this (and most smartphones) without having access to the internet – he had no idea what numeric keys to press. He had guessed correctly that I was sitting in front of the computer (although if he’d called yesterday I’d have been in class).
This lead to a laugh as I had experienced a similar frequent problem in which I’m told to enter someones name into a voicemail system by entering their “name” (in letters) by pressing the keypad. Well… when your phone keypad looks like this…
How do you know how to spell out “Charlie” with tones/numbers? We had a good laugh about it and wondered how many other people out there experience this phenomenon….
