HOLY SHIT I have been receiving the same incoming call for six minutes now...

[Drunken Irishman]

Is that even possible? WHY DID MY PHONE NOT GO OVER TO VOICE MAIL!?!

That was really strange.

[struggle4progress]

1. When I was in grad school many years ago, I lived year round in the dorm, including during breaks.

A favorite drink of some drunk clowns was to go to a pay phone, dial the number of somebody who they knew wasn't there during the break, and walk away from the phone. I don't know how many times I was awakened by a phone ringing in an empty room: typically it would go on for hours at night before you could find somebody who could do something about it. Nobody official would ever just unlock a door and handle the phone: you had to dig up somebody at 3AM who could do something with the campus switchboard

Same incoming call for six minutes ain't nothing ...

[Drunken Irishman]

2. That would drive me mad...

The thing is, normally calls should go to my voice mail after a few rings. I normally don't pick up if I don't want to talk to the person and don't like hitting end call because that will automatically send it to VM early in the rings and it's a dead give away I noticed someone was calling and didn't want to answer.

So I just let it ring out. Normally it rings for four or five times and then just goes to VM. Tonight, though, it never did.