My work cell phone rang the other morning at 4AM.  Thinking that it was some sort of an emergency, I jumped out of bed to answer it.  Was it work?  Was it a family member?  I didn’t know.  But, by the time got there, the call was gone.

Since I didn’t have my glasses on, I had to squint at the small cell phone screen.  I could see the number but I didn’t recognize it.  So, I went back to bed.

A couple of minutes later it rang again.  And, once again, I jumped out of bed  only to miss the call.  So, when it rang the third time, I was ready to answer it.

I said “Hello, hello?” a couple of times but only heard some crackling and a couple of people talking in the back ground.  It was a butt call!!

Butt calls happen when people keep their cell phones in their back pockets.  Then, through a combination of wiggles, the cell phone manages to call someone.

I suspect that my repeated calls were the result of “redial” and who knows how my cell number was dialed in the first place.  Regardless, I shut off  my cell phone for the remainder of the night.