Butt Dialing

We all have accidentally called someone at one time or another. Accidental cell-phone calls are made in many ways. For instance, maybe your touch-screen phone is in your hand or on your hip and because of your hustle and bustle you have accidentally called a person. The benefit to these accidental calls via the hand, hip or even purse is that the person who made the accidental call will see the light of their phone flash or even hear the receivers’ voice or ringing coming from the phone. This individual can intercept that accidental call before it goes through or in the least apologize for calling and explain it was by accident.

The worst form of accidental calling is butt dialing. We all know those people who are guilty of putting their phone in their back pockets (I am one of them(^_^). The blunder here is the fact that the phone is behind you, out of sight, out of mind, and in a very loud place it can't even be heard. Now, when you butt dial a person you are completely unaware of it. The person getting the call ends up feeling like you are pranking them because the call was made and they heard nothing but noise or you talking to another person.

Sometimes you'll call the same person a good four or five times with your butt without even knowing it. This doesn't present well especially if you're “pranking” a business connection or possible job opportunity with your butt. Now your business connection thinks you're unreliable, or the job opportunity is no longer an opportunity because you have called them constantly, or so they think. The average person feels like you were pranking them and at times the person at the number called by accident is upset when you call them by accident and do not understand. They get unreasonably upset and don't want to be bothered with you.

Butt dialing can also terminate a relationship especially if the butt dialer’s partner is a snooper of eavesdropper. Regular people just hang up when they realize "this person is not trying to call me", but not a snooper or eavesdropper. You have put your phone in your back pocket; butt dialed your significant other, who happens to be a snoop/eavesdropper. While your butt dial went through you were talking about them. Now that person has listened and heard everything you said about them to another person. Let's make the scenario worse; you were cheating while your butt dial went through to your significant other who now knows you were cheating because they heard everything; now because of your butt dialing you have lost your relationship.


Be smart and responsible with your phone and don't put it in your back pocket because you may very well be butt dialing people who may not be happy with it. Do yourself and everyone around you a favor and keep your phone out of your back pocket. You don't want to lose a friend, lover, or business connection because of your butt dialing. Get a holster, or case and put your phone in a reasonable place.