I was eating with friends at a Hooters around 2006 or thereabouts, and totally as a joke I complained about their “911” hot wings, telling the waitress that I was offended by their appropriation of our “sacred tragedy 9/11” to name their hottest wings after. She got all wide-eyed and said “oh no no no no no no no” and went running off to get her manager, who came and apologized profusely and told me they were named after the 911 phone number and not 9/11. He comped our entire table’s bill and gave me four $50 gift certificates as well - it was too late for me to back out of the joke at that point. TBF I still have those gift certificates somewhere, but it was no real hardship to not use them because Hooters is pretty fucking awful.
I’ve noticed it being written like 9/11 instead of 911 a lot lately. Is this how it’s supposed to be or what has happened that’s making people add the slash now…
No, these are people who are either incredibly dumb or have somehow never seen anyone write “911” down but have heard somone joking about “dialing nine eleven”
Imagine dialing 911 and the operator says “Nine Eleven, what’s your emergency?”
“Nine eleven what’s your emergency?”
“Hi, I’d like to report a nine eleven.”
“Oh jeez”
Oh no…they did a 9/11 in Minnesota??
I was eating with friends at a Hooters around 2006 or thereabouts, and totally as a joke I complained about their “911” hot wings, telling the waitress that I was offended by their appropriation of our “sacred tragedy 9/11” to name their hottest wings after. She got all wide-eyed and said “oh no no no no no no no” and went running off to get her manager, who came and apologized profusely and told me they were named after the 911 phone number and not 9/11. He comped our entire table’s bill and gave me four $50 gift certificates as well - it was too late for me to back out of the joke at that point. TBF I still have those gift certificates somewhere, but it was no real hardship to not use them because Hooters is pretty fucking awful.
Haha thank you I couldn’t figure out what 9/11 had to do with all this
I’ve noticed it being written like 9/11 instead of 911 a lot lately. Is this how it’s supposed to be or what has happened that’s making people add the slash now…
The emergency phone number has always been written as 911. I have no idea why people are writing a phone number as a date suddenly.
No, these are people who are either incredibly dumb or have somehow never seen anyone write “911” down but have heard somone joking about “dialing nine eleven”
It has always been 9/11 because it is a date. Some people use 911, but this can be confused for the emergency services phone number (also 911)
That’s the thing. I’m pretty sure OP meant 911, not 9/11.
In the original post? Yeah, they meant 911 (the phone number)
In this case they WERE referring to the phone number.
Well…yeah, it’s what they meant, but how many phone numbers do you know of that have forward slashes?
Might be an autocorrect thing though depending on the phone
You know, that’s a really good point! It probably has something to do with autocorrect.