{"id":20418,"date":"2014-01-18T18:43:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterfever.com\/blog\/?p=20418"},"modified":"2014-01-18T18:43:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:43:50","slug":"google-miscommunication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/18\/google-miscommunication\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dad Told Me, “To Die Right Now\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dad told me, “to die right now\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

Shocking isn\u2019t it. Well, the truth is, it’s not what you think. I gave my dad my Google Voice number a while back because I wasn\u2019t getting phone reception in my high rise apartment. It was basically the only way of communicating on phone before I switched to T-mobile, which gave me the option to make and receive calls via WiFi.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Well, my dad still uses my Google number when he calls me. He left me a message in Vietnamese yesterday (Thankfully I was able to download the message on Google Voice), saying that he heard I was going to be in town on Sunday from my brother and wanted to verify. However, Google Voice translated that to this:<\/span><\/h3>\n

“Doing Joe last night, you would like to find out. I know that I didn’t. Definitely I didn’t come days. If you do and Sunday if I want to know how. I’d like to have to die right now. So yeah, my concern call back tonight that you will not go back to you yet, okay but i gotta”<\/span><\/h3>\n

Here is the actual message that my dad left me.\u00a0[jwplayer mediaid=”20419″]<\/span><\/h3>\n

Google cracks me up sometimes.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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