It was quite a fix I'd gotten myself into... even if it was "just one of those things."

A few weeks back I was at the Goat Kidney Retailers Annual Convention (GKRAC). Whilst wandering the convention hall floor -- testing various goat kidney products for firmness and odor, you know -- I ran into WhaleButt Wendy, one of the hostesses at the show.

It was love at first sight. I was smitten. She was smitten. Even the goat kidney I was fondling was smitten.

It was the same old sad story after that. You know what happened. Another married guy, off at a convention, taken in by a pretty face and -- the rest is just the usual. I figured, what the hell, I'll be on a plane outta here in a few days, it'll all be over, and no one will ever know.

Little did I know then, though, that WhaleButt Wendy was a whacko. But she made that plain enough, and just what her demands were, as I hurried off to my departing flight:

"You call me three times a day, every day, you pig, or I tell yer wife what you done! Including that kinky stuff with the goat kidneys..."

Arghhh! Ack! What to do? I run a little family-owned goat kidney store, and my wife does all the books, sees all the bills, and is especially attentive to the phone bill in particular. No way I was gonna make those calls to WhaleButt Wendy from a regular line...

DIALPAD.COM to the Rescue!

Dialpad has done a great job on this. Unlike things like NetMeeting where you need three engineers and a lawyer's butler to get the thing to work, sign-up is super-fast and super-easy. I think it took me all of -- no kidneying -- thirty seconds to get on board.

Once into the service, it pretty much runs just like any other phone line. Audio quality (again unlike that of doo-dah's like NetMeeting that basically suck) was just as good as any standard phone line.

Calls go through reliably (a good thing, since Wendy gets to fuming if I'm not on time), I've yet to run busy signals, and it does indeed seem to work on every number I've tried.

About the only difference between Dialpad and a standard phone is the fact that you have to be near your computer to use it.

So, if you've managed to get yourself into one of those, uh, situations like I did, don't even blink; just go sign up right now and get free distance calling your wife will never see on the phone bill.

Actually, come to think of it, this might even be good for regular folks who just like a bargain.

Ooops... gotta run.

I'd tell you more about it, but, well -- time to call whacko Wendy WhaleButt again.









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