The telephone hotline D.C. Raven offers presumably single callers the opportunity to talk it up with other interested parties. On its parent company’s website, the service is described as a telephonic forum for people to either leave personal messages for potential new friends or join a group chat with the other minglers.

The last message from its Twitter account, sent in August, invites a potential customer to “fuck wit the reallist bitches in the dmv.”

Among the hotline’s most loyal customers: Lenwood O. Johnson, an advisory neighborhood commission member in Columbia Heights who used his government-provided phone—an optional perk, but really, the only one that comes with being an otherwise unpaid neighborhood commissioner—to call D.C. Raven and another chat line, D.C. Alibi, 240 times since August 2011, The Washington Post reports.

In total, Johnson spent 158 hours on the chat lines, but his commission’s monthly phone bills never exceeded the normal $200 charge. Why? Well, none of Johnson’s fellow members of ANC 1A use their phones that much, the Post found.

Johnson also used the phone to make several calls to Pete Ross, the former shadow senator candidate. Political calls are also not permitted on the taxpayer-funded phones.

But Johnson told the Post he called D.C. Raven often just to stay awake on late-night drives:

“It’s not like a sex chat line or whatever,” he said. “Often I get on the line just to keep me awake or alert while I’m driving home from Baltimore.”

He spent six hours on one call, made at 4:44 a.m. on Sept. 8, 2011.

Johnson told the Post he’d be fine getting his own personal phone going forward.