If you have ever been in a romantic relationship of any type or duration, you’ll doubtless also have been the recipient or initiator of the (heinously embarrassing) 4am-drunken ‘but I still love you !’ phone call from/to a person you possibly called a vomitous cretin last time you spoke to them sober.

Telephone calls made whilst drunk rarely have a satisfactory outcome. This is possibly due to the fact that drunken people can tend to be somewhat more free with their emotions. Propped up by a skinful of alcohol, drunk people tend to say things they would never normally say.

According to (cell phone carrier) Virgin Mobile, a survey of 409 Australian cell phone users found that 95% of them admitted to making incoherent, embarrassing late-night calls from their cell phone whilst drunk.

55% claimed that the very first thing they did upon waking after a night of drinking was to grab their phone to see whom they had called whilst inebriated. 30% reported calling ex-partners at late hours, 19% called their current partner, and 16% called their boss !. Oooooh.

In response to these revolting statistics, Virgin Mobile is now offering Australians who regularly get plastered and make telephone calls of varying levels of appropriateness the chance to temporarily ‘blacklist’ certain numbers.

This way, when the habitual drunken caller plans an evening out ‘on the sauce’, he/she may decide whom is likely to be the target/s of any upcoming drunken barrage/s, and block the phone from calling the number/s for an overnight period.

This seems to work in theory, until you take into account the fact that these drunken phone calls are usually motivated by a force much stronger than a simple cell phone blocker. Hell hath no fury like the thwarted 4am drunken phone caller !.

Imagine !. They’d just smash their phone and then pick someone else’s up and use that. Or stumble dottily along the road looking for a pay phone and get arrested. Or maybe get so angry that they just decide to go on over to visit instead !. Yeah !.

Oh yes, that’s much better.

(Not).

Way to go, Australia. That we even needed to do the survey was scary enough .

Statistics from: Link