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Frank Filz wrote:
All because they wanted to
> charge me to change my phone number because they had given me a number
> which had at one time been a CVS loading dock phone, and apparently some
> phone booths still had phone books with that number in it, and I kept
> getting 3 AM calls from truckers needing directions (I even went so far
> as to call the CVS corporate offices and determined that they didn't
> still have the number in their internal directories).
We're way off topic now, but let me tell you that my mom was pretty mean
to wrong number callers... we used to have a number that was one digit
off from the local Dairy Queen, and we'd get people who would just
rattle off a takeout order. Mom would just say, "yes, your order will be
ready when you get here" and hang up. Needless to say it wouldn't be.
Now, if they had the presence of mind to ask "is this the Dairy Queen",
she'd say rather huffily, "I am not a Dairy Queen, I am merely an
ordinary housewife" in her rather thick German accent which was usually
good for a "huh?" at the other end.
Dairy Queen finally figured out why they were getting so many irate
takeout customers and tried calling wrong numbers themselves to find us
and ask us to stop. That didn't work very well with Mom, they got an
earful and a half.
Note that everybody makes mistakes. I DO NOT ADVOCATE meanness to wrong
number callers. At least not the first time they get it wrong. But we
had some dim bulbs (or terminally uncoordinated?) in our town that could
make the same mistake 5 times in a row even when you told them the
correct number.
FUT o-t.fun
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