Ever catch somebody in the middle of giving the Phone Voice to someone?
I was talking to a co-worker the other day, and in the middle of our conversation, she got a call from a number that she did not recognize. When she looked at the phone, I felt like I could read her thoughts. The look on her face said this:
“I don’t know this number. Is it a bill collector? Is it that guy who followed me around the club for an hour after I gave him the number last Friday? DID ERNEST GET LOCKED UP AGAIN?! I ain’t got no bail money…Then again, this might be something important that I need to know…”
Next she looked up at me and said “Don’t laugh,” then proceeded to answer the phone. I tried not to laugh, but once I heard her “I don’t know who is on the other line” phone voice, I had to. Her voice lowered about 12 octaves, and went from sounding like a news anchorwoman, to something reminicent of the guy who sang bass in Boyz II Men.
She said “Hello” and I thought she was possessed by Satan! I had to laugh, because it was a complete 180 degree switch from her corporate office voice. She went from the boardroom to the back-alley with lightning quickness! Once she realized it was somebody she wanted to talk to, she switched her voice back and I walked away smiling.
How many of you all do that? I know I’ve given out a phone voice or two to the student loan people back in the day. They don’t bother me anymore, so now I have other means for dealing with those type of calls: I cut the phone off when it’s not free nights and weekends!
Also, the make love to your eardrums phone-bone sexy voice also counts as a phone voice. That one is much more common, but still just as enjoyable to make jokes about. I can’t lie, I have caught myself doing this on numerous occasions. Start off telling jokes and funny stories, 10 minutes later, I’m in Nasty R&B singer mode, talking some “I just wanna hold you…feel your skin against my skin. Your heart beating next to mine…You coming through? Pick up some Gatorade and a box of Magnums on the way. Oh yeah, wear that little thing I like. You know…that tennis skirt that’s two sizes too small” type of mess.
I know I’m not the only phone voice person on here. I might even give y’all a taste of the phone voice on here. For now, you’ll just have to talk about your own phone voice in the comments section below.
FIRST!!! ALL THE WAY FROM CALI! Yes, I want to hear the voice, Leon! Put it in the Boom Boom Room! Why Gatorade?????
Cause you gonna be doing alot of sweatting, Wonderlove … But a Leon I Find that it still happens , It happened the other day at work , I was on the phone with a customer and tha barry white voice kicked in . its like its second nature …. go figure
I don’t use a phone voice. Just my plain old regular voice. See no need for it.
I have what I call my “white voice” and it’s the one I answer the phone at work with. I always keep my girlfriends in sticthes with how quickly I can switch from, “Chiiiiiiiild, you know he triflin’” to “Hello, Raquel speaking…”
Luckily, I have a call screening function on my cellphone, but if I do have to answer I go up a few octaves. Like “Hell-OOO??” I get it from my mama. When phone-boning I have a sound that’s hard to describe, but I always get “Your voice is sexy. You sound like you can sing.”
Oh, I see, Godfather….I’ll bring towels…hate Gatorade…
I have a horribly fake sounding phone voice, it almost sounds like a radio announcer voice. I didn’t even realize i did it until someone else pointed it out.
Oh, my phone voice is moreso my professional voice. You know that voice where when you are out with friends and that odd number calls, you start sounding like Peter Brady or some shit. Also the voice you give when you get called about a job interview or have a phone interview, lol
My phone voice has multiple personalities.
I don’t care what anyone says, EVERYONE needs to have the “white” voice they gotta put on when handling business. It’s actually quite funny when people finally meet you and their facial expression is screaming “you’re Black?!”
The phone-bone voice is priceless. I once got off the phone with a dude and called my homegirl afterwards, without successfully making the transition to my “hey girl” voice. Yep I definitely got caught out there on some “ewww, nigga if u don’t get off my phone with that bedroom voice!”.
Seems like you make fun of mine without fail! Don’t hate on the sexy phone voice Leon! LOL
@ Caroline, I totally feel you on the facial expression people give me if they meet me for the first time after speaking with me on the phone!
LOL! I used to utilize the phone voice, but now if a bill collector calls, I just start asking them common sense questions and they dont ever seem to call back. So that works great for me. You know, when their like “You have an outstanding balance on your Visa card” I just come out with “I know, don’t you think I would of paid it if I had the money? Are you calling me to offer to pay it? Or just remind me that I havent paid it cause I cant?”
Making people uncomfortable is becoming a hobby for me :)
Other than that, if your a number I dont recognize, you get auto-voicemailed. :D
^^ that is funny. we all have different phone voices.
the white voice is infamous even though i sound like that all the time. my frens always make fun of me because of that.
but most of all i like talking to dudes when they try to make their voice all sexy on the phone. i think its hilarious but sometimes im very hard of hearin so when they drop the octaves i make them repeat what they said because i cant hear them and that just messes up the mood. then they become annoyed and thats the end of that conversation
can u imagine? him with his sexy voice, “Yeah so what are you wearing?” then i said “huh?” he says “what are you wearing?’ i say “can you repeat that?
he tries to keep his cool and asks again.
i say “huh speak up i cant hear you.” he gets mad “i said WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?”…..so much for the sexy voice lol that has actually happened to me before
I have a variety of phone voices: the white voice, the sexy late-night voice, the foreign-I-don’t-speak-English-Misses-not-home voice for bill collectors, the sleepy voice for people I don’t want to speak with, the list goes on.
Apparently I sound soooo white on the phone that an internet date (and eventual boyfriend) thought I was a 5’8 blonde and not a 5′nothing Indian.