It wasn't me, but a stranger on an old rickety bus in Spain...
that I was riding in with my friend. We were going through quite a dry, rural area, with dusty roads and some of the passengers holding chickens on their laps. You know the sort of thing.

One Spaniard was sat at the back chatting on his phone the whole way, really loudly, laughing and guffawing like a mentalist, and saying pretty much all of the Spanish swear words I knew at the time in every sentence. I could see all the old, grey haired wrinklies pulling the kind of frowns that could kill a small squirrel at 50 paces, and all the parents covering the ears of their young'uns. I couldn't even understand what he was saying, and he was pissing me off. Needless to say, he wasn't very popular with anyone on the bus.

About an hour into the journey, one of the old biddies at the front clasped her chest and keeled over. The bus driver stopped, and people crowded round to help. It was that point the driver asked if anyone had a phone. Considering that we were in the middle of nowhere, and this being a few years back, hardly anyone did. My friend took his out of his pocket, as did I, to find that we didn't have any reception. In fact, the handful of people on the bus who had phones had zero reception.

All eyes then looked to the back of the bus, where our noisy little friend was still nattering away, and hadn't even noticed that we'd stopped at all. The bus driver went over to ask him to use his phone to get help, where he sheepishly looked down the bus to find half the people staring at him, while the other half were attending to the suffering granny, before realising there was a problem.

He handed the phone over to reveal he didn't have any reception either...and had been conducting a conversation between himself and a 'friend' for seemingly the entire journey.
( guffguff fuckes your gradeds balls!, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 18:06, 8 replies)

I like Kharma some times....

( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 18:42, closed)

Surely you like
Karma
(DEADLINK 's head is spinning like a child in a tumble dryer, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 18:56, closed)

You think you're so smart, but it'll come back to haunt you!

( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 19:12, closed)

Hope he was stabbed to death after that show

( The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 18:50, closed)

But
was the old woman alright in the end? It'd make the ending nicer if she was!
(General_Manchego, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 21:22, closed)

She died..
...but oh how we laughed
(Corbo, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:58, closed)

I've heard a similar story before
About a guy on a train who gets caught out in near identical cicumstances- turned out when his phone had to be used in an emergency it was in fact a dog toy.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 12:10, closed)

I heard about a poseur
who lost control of his car and ran it off the road whilst talking on his mobile, which subsequently turned out to be a pencil case.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 9 Jun 2010, 15:19, closed)