ethics
02-10-2005, 01:31 PM
- It's every single person's nightmare: You're on a date, it's a disaster but there's no way out.
With Valentine's Day looming, a mobile phone company in Australia has come to the rescue with a service offering an escape from the date from hell.
All you have to do is discreetly dial three numbers and then hang up without saying a word.
"Virgin Mobile will call them back a minute later with a perfect excuse to get them out of there. We'll even talk them through what to say," the company, a joint venture of the Virgin Group and Optus, said in a statement.
I can see when and how this would be useful, but look, if you can't get out of a date from hell without a 3rd party intervention, <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/life_australia_dates_dc">you shouldn't be dating. ;)</a>
With Valentine's Day looming, a mobile phone company in Australia has come to the rescue with a service offering an escape from the date from hell.
All you have to do is discreetly dial three numbers and then hang up without saying a word.
"Virgin Mobile will call them back a minute later with a perfect excuse to get them out of there. We'll even talk them through what to say," the company, a joint venture of the Virgin Group and Optus, said in a statement.
I can see when and how this would be useful, but look, if you can't get out of a date from hell without a 3rd party intervention, <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/life_australia_dates_dc">you shouldn't be dating. ;)</a>