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Re: Informal WB Store Survey
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:39:35 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> Frank Filz wrote:
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> 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).
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> We're way off topic now,
I was trying to decide where to send this thread off to. I figured there
was some possibility of some legitimate market theory discussion so
that's where I send it, of course there's also possibility for debate
and fun things also...
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
I think that part of the problem is telephone companies assigning
similar numbers to homes and buisineses.
I tend to answer my phone at home with my name which I think helps
somewhat, though a lot of people still ask for someone by name.
Obviously they either were calling a buisiness, or are really clueless.
A couple times I've called buisinesses which left messages on my machine
to let them know that their message didn't get to the right person.
Then there's the mail. The other week, I got so far as to be wondering
why the phone company had stopped EFT payment of my bill, and why the
bill seemed way out of line for me, before I realized I had opened my
neighbors mail. For a while we had a mail carrier who did this several
times a week, now when it happens, I just suspect a substitute carrier.
The mail is always correctly addressed.
One time when we were having work done on our house, the contractor
answered the phone and said "Joe's Pizza". My friend who had been
calling told me after I got put on the phone that he was REAL tempted to
order a pizza...
Another fun "wrong number" one was a friend I used to call all the time.
He lived in the same town but was on another exchange, back when towns
which had more than one exchange had several in sequence ones. I always
was worried about dialing the wrong number, asking for James, and
getting a James. Well, one time I did dial the wrong exchange, and
moments later was talking to a somewhat confused James...
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Filz writes: <snipped phone stuff> (...) For a very long stretch of time (something like a year and a half), our neighbor one block over was getting mail for us, and vice versa. Talking to more of our neighbors, we (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Wrong number fun (was RE:Informal WB Store Survey)
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| (...) We have a phone line at work that for years was hooked up only to a modem. It is totally unlisted, and there is no legitimate reason for any right-number calls to come in on this line. It is, however, on our phone switch as an extra outgoing (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Informal WB Store Survey
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| Frank Filz wrote: All because they wanted to (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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