A Fun Experiment
One of my coworkers has a ringtone of a horse neighing. After overhearing a conversation I realized the horse ringtone is for his wife. I asked him about it. His answer? “Oh, that’s not just any old horse you hear. That’s a nag.”
Ouch. I told him that wasn’t very nice. He thought it was funny. I didn’t ask if she knew what it was or not. To be honest, if she does then I’d rather not know about it.
Another coworker has what he calls “their song” as the ringtone for his wife. The song is an old one “Close enough to perfect for me“. At first I thought that wasn’t terribly romantic, but this couple has been married over 30 years, and for this particular wears-boots-with-business-suits country guy, it’s probably as romantic as he’s likely to get. Put in the context of what I know about him, it’s actually pretty sweet.
Oh, and one father has the chorus of “We don’t need no education” as the ringtone for his 16 year old daughter. The 13 year old artistic daughter has Xanadu for her ringtone. His ex-wife’s ringtone is the instrumental version of a song with the B word in it.
Once upon a time RK had a ringtone for me that was this really sexy voice saying “Honey, it’s your wife”. That didn’t last long because when you’re in a meeting and your cellphone goes off with that ringtone it’s hard to pretend it was a business call. I probably only call him two or three times a month while he’s at work, but invariably it will be when he’s in a meeting, or teaching a class of new employees.
So, here is the experiment. Wait until your DH is home, and then call his cellphone from your cellphone. Then come back here and tell us what your ringtone is. If you have older kids with cellphones it might be enlightening to try the experiment by calling their cellphones, too.
I could use a good laugh, so if I get at least 20 responses then I’ll share what RK has as my current ringtone.
I have to confess that I don’t do the ringtone-song thing. I used the regular “rings” that came with the phone and gave various rings to the people who call me the most, so I can tell who is calling by the type of ring.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I just learned yesterday that my husband has given me a ringtone of an old car horn…..like “Bah OOOOOO Gah!” At first I was all offended until he said it was like the noise you hear when a cartoon guys eyes bug out when the pretty girl walks by. So I choose to go with feeling good about it even tho…..I still wonder if it isn’t an “Alarm” so he knows the nag is calling. I have John Denver’s Annie’s Song for him. Whenever he calls my phone bellows ” You fill up my senses…like a night in a forest.” It has proven really embarrassing in stores sometimes. I even have one complete stranger burst into laughter, cover her mouth and run away. But I don’t care!
March 27th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Not sure what this says but hubby has the ringtone from CTU on “24″. The one that used to ring in the CTU offices before this season.
Then again, I have U2’s “Vertigo” – Hello, hello! Hola! There’s a place called Vertigo – on mine. My girls want me to play “the phone song” all the time.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
My husband uses one of the regular rings for when I call. It is a soft, pleasant tone (not to say I’m all that soft and pleasant but I thought it was a nice compliment).
My brother has “Do you think I’m sexy” as his general ringtone which embarasses his 20 year old daughter beyond belief!
March 29th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
We don’t do the custom song ring either. I know, we are boring! We use the same general ring tone for everyone and just look at the caller ID.