Lexicon of Stupidity

Ok, what is wrong with the people who think it is ok to whistle into the phone while I am working.

I do a decent amount of work with someone waiting on the other end of the line. Every so often, not too regularly, some will get a little ditty stuck in their head and decide that they should share. I have one small problem with that, they whistle directly into the microphone of their phone. This produces a sound roughly equivalent of the sound a fax makes when it dials your phone number. I know they can hear it too, we have those new fangled "Full Duplex" phones, so they can hear the dying cat sounds they are creating. But instead of stopping when they realize how terrible it sounds they modulate the sound. What are they thinking? "If I can blow across the mic in just the right way I bet it will sound like I have drums in my mouth." Just a little heads up, unless your legal name has been changed to include the prefix "MC" or some phonetic equivalent, "beat box whistling" is probably not a performance art you should pursue.

Now don’t get me wrong, whistling is great! I personally love it. However, it has its proper time and place. (Filler when you cant remember the words to song on the radio, catcalls and driving people crazy on airplanes.) So if you find yourself on the phone and a happy little tune pops into your head, please do the rest of us a favor and bite your lip till the call is over.