Don’t wait for the apocalypse.

You may remember Vault-Tec as the company that built all of the underground vaults in the Fallout game series, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. The recently released Fallout 3 trailer tells us to reserve our vaults by calling 1-888-4VAULT-TEC, so I did just that.

Here’s the complete transcript of the audio recording I got. They even had a creepy mutant voice do the numbers.

Thank you for calling Vault-Tec, your first choice in post nuclear survival. We’re sorry, but due to unexpectedly high call volumes, all representatives are currently busy. Please stay on the line and someone will be with you as soon as possible. There are 101,000,000 callers in front of you. Estimated wait time: 78,643 hours.

Thank you for calling Vault-Tec. Have a wonderful day.

I’m not a patient man (and it doesn’t actually go down) so I hung up. I deal with enough of this shit with my cable company.

Tags: Bethesda, fallout-3, vault-tec

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2 Comments » Jonathan Zungre on August 1, 2008 12:16 pm haha! your choice follow through was rewarded by theirs. Eric Cartman on May 12, 2009 3:33 pm Oh man if only vault tec and pipboy 3000's were real oh and living in megaton would be cool to. But im confident that soon we will have wrist worn computers. I love calling the vault-tec number. fallout 3 Rules. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.