Wacked-out idea of the day

[kellinator]

You know what I think would be hysterical? If I got on my cell phone and started walking around busy areas on campus having a very loud conversation. I'm talking total soap opera conversation. Something involving a variety of felonies, missing persons, the CIA, a suitcase full of cocaine, strange people pounding on the door at 3 AM in a thunderstorm, and somebody getting knocked up in a broom closet.

The fun part, of course, would be watching people's reactions, and checking to see if anybody was trying to follow me to hear the rest of the story.

Comments

[soulfire.livejournal.com]

So like turn a season of 24 into a cell phone conversation or something? ;)
Hehe I'd almost pay to see the peoples faces as they evesdropped. :P

[indiepunkrock.livejournal.com]

I am in full support of this idea.
What would be really fun is to get the person on the other end of the line to sit somewhere else on campus and do the same thing, then you could see twice the reactions and affect twice as many people.

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

I think the reaction would probably be more of irritation than of interest; loud cell phone conversations are incredibly annoying. Or maybe I'm just projecting my own opinions onto the general public at large.

That said, if you DO decide to do this, I recommend writing out a script first. Spontaneous creation is not most peoples' forte, and so you might wind up doing a lot of "umm, uhh, err" unless you had something to read from. As long as you had the pauses and delays in the "conversation", nobody would think you were reading from anything.

cheers,
Phil

[football-swan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh. Call me, and we'll compare reactions from Emory to UGA....

[leahpet.livejournal.com]

I'm not exceptionally loud on my cell phone, but I do have people comment during my conversations. They seem to want to interject their feeling on whether my Mom should have gone brunette or redhead and whether or not those blonde highlights were a bit too much. My favorite was the time the lady in the grocery store decided to argue with the person I was on the phone with, although she couldn't hear his side.

buckthorn loves to wait until someone is listening in on his and my conversation then loudly says, "Everyday is necrobestial butt sex day!"

I turn all shades of red, but then so do the people listening in.

[whorlwind.livejournal.com]

Janel told me about one time she was walking in Berkley with one of her friends and this homeless woman mumbles "worse comes to worse I can always get the sawed off shotgun".

I think the crazy conversations without the cell phone are the best. =)

[girlvinyl.livejournal.com]

please see:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/whisper2000/

[mizdandylynn.livejournal.com]

Better yet.. have someone hiding nearby with a camera to catch people's faces... what fun

[mohareb.livejournal.com]

I've had this thought many times, and actually gone through with it. At times, I incorporated my friends into the idea and they played along.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

How did people react?

[sleepinbeauty.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, the weirder my conversations get, the less interested people seem.