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Recently I wrote an article about errant text messages and text message blunders.  You may never have made any of these mistakes thanks to God.  But have you ever been a victim of pocket dialing? (Women get Purse Dialing) This one is the bane of my existence!  And for goodness sake folks... Pocket dialing even has a wikipedia entry! 

Pocket dialing is something just about any cell phone owner may have fallen victim to.   It is when your cell phone makes a call without you intending to make the call.  It gets it's name from having cell phone in your pocket (generally back pocket) and a normal body movement results in dialing either randomly or dialing a number from your phone's phonebook or last number previously in conversation with etc... 

Now you are walking along, or sitting to dinner or doing something without any knowledge your phone has made a call.  Again, I tell a little story about how my own phone called my wife (ex-wife) when I was out to lunch with a friend in my article Text messaging blunders, mistakes and the embarassment. This was far from the only time I've suffered from pocket dialing.  A few weeks ago my phone dialed my parents, three times! Last week it called my girlfriend.  Two months ago it called my son at school and he got his phone confiscated for the day until I came to pick it up for him. LOL  That is an ironic twist eh!

Pocket dialing has apparently reached epidemic proportions as it made it into everthing from discussion boards and phone reviews to an episode of How I Met Your Mother (TV Show CBS) when Ted's phone called Marshall's apartment all evening the night of St. Patrick's day celebrating.  The result was a reality check to his ...   more »