{"id":707,"date":"2007-02-19T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/text-me-outta-here.htm"},"modified":"2007-02-24T22:53:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T22:53:03","slug":"text-me-outta-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/text-me-outta-here.htm","title":{"rendered":"Text me outta here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--2120339669539009159-->When I was about 15, I remember using a telephone engineering number to get the phone to ring, then pretending that it was my friend&#8217;s Dad on the phone, that we were in trouble, and that we had to go to his house right away &#8211; just to get my girlfriend to leave so I could hang out with my mates!<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 20 or so years and  teenage girlfriends are definitely a thing of the past (I&#8217;m happily married, with two lovely kids).  The engineering code that I used to know is also long since confined to a distant memory (but you can do something similar in the UK with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telephonesuk.co.uk\/network_codes.htm\">17070<\/a>); however there is a new service for those who need to escape from dodgy dates, or other potentially sticky situations.  For \u00c2\u00a31, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textmeouttahere.co.uk\/\">text me outta here<\/a> will send an SMS message at a pre-defined time and you can either ignore it (if things are going well) or use the excuse you dreamed up previously to get you out of a situation.  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