A few months ago I got nostalgic about the whole custom ringtones trend that was popular back in middle school. So I played around on my phone, found the setting and tried out a few until I got bored. Didn’t bother resetting because my phone is always on silent anyways, so I figured there’d be no consequences.
Fast forward to today. I’ve got my headphones in, blasting Dear Maria, and in a deep focus on some CAD work when my music abruptly cuts out…
A few seconds of noise cancelling dead silence…
(nightmare sing-song Portal turret voice) “Helloooooo! Is anyone there?”
I don’t often have nightmares, so it’s been a minute since I jolted upright in a cold sweat quite this violently. Much to the bewilderment and general concern of my coworkers lol
TL;DR: Pranked myself with a time-delay jumpscare by forgetting my custom ringtones.
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I don’t know if you watch Bob’s Burgers, but around the time I got work accepted to my local art crawl for the first time, I changed my ringtone to the Butts song from the art crawl episode of BB. Then left my phone unattended and ringing on my desk as I went to speak to a colleague…
https://youtu.be/3f3RUzl86G8
Critical error…
I had a friend that changed her ringtone to a song she liked. It kept ringing and she would dance around a little while until it would stop. Then she kept doing whatever she was doing. I watched this happen a couple of times and asked if she was going to answer her phone. She was confused about what I meant until it started playing her song again and she looked at the phone and realized what the hell I was talking about.