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shinebrightlikeabarakat

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HERE’S THE THING THOUGH

I used to work for a call center and I was doing a political survey and I called this number that was randomly generated for me and the way our system worked was voice-activated so when the other person said hello you’d get connected to them, so I just launch right into my “Harvard University and NPR blah blah blah” thing and then there’s this long pause and I think the person’s hung up even though I didn’t hear a click

And then I hear “you shouldn’t be able to call this number.”

So I apologize and go into the preset spiel about because we aren’t selling anything, etc. etc. and the answer I get is

"No, I know that. What I mean is that it should be impossible for you to call this number, and I need to know how you got it."

I explain that it’s randomly generated and I’m very sorry for bothering him, and go to hang up. And before I can click terminate, I hear:

"Ma’am, this is a matter of national security."

I accidentally called the director of the FBI.

My job got investigated because a computer randomly spit out a number to the Pentagon.

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I hate it when women don’t realize that I’m just carrying tires. Literally always carrying them. Tires 24/7. Hitting that rubber from the minute I get up to the minute I go to sleep. Small tires, big tires, giant tires, it don’t matter to us men, am I right fellas?

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I hate it when women don’t realize that I’m just carrying tires. Literally always carrying them. Tires 24/7. Hitting that rubber from the minute I get up to the minute I go to sleep. Small tires, big tires, giant tires, it don’t matter to us men, am I right fellas?

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