Sat 8 Nov 2008
Adventures In Wrong Numbers
Posted by Will under humor, iPhone, slice of life
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So my cell phone rings at 7:10 a.m. and shows me an incoming call from somewhere in the 606 area code (which upon consultation with The Google is somewhere in Eastern Kentucky).
I push the button to answer the call but hold it to my ear saying nothing.
The silence on both ends lasts about five seconds until I hear a woman’s voice.
“June?” she asks somewhat imperatively.
“No, this is November,” I answer.
“Oh, sorry!” says the woman and hangs up.
LOLing mostly on the inside ensues until of course the phone rings again a few moments later. This time I have to bite my lip when she asks “Is this June?” and instead successfully help her find the number she’s misdialing.
Yoshi just read this and said, “At 7:00 in the morning, I would not be that nice. I’m never that nice, actually.”
LOL! Nice of you to be so helpful that early on a Saturday.
I have had a few of these of late. One guy from Kentucky insisted I send him back an airplane part he sent out incorrectly. I tried to explain I did not own a Piper and wouldn’t know where to put the part he described. Several rounds later I finally did what I often do eventually in those situations, reply with “fine—I’ll get it out in FedEx tomorrow morning, bright and early, but realize that here in CA, our time is different than yours, so it might not end up at your location at your time that you expect it”. Most people say “uh-huh-okay, cool, thanks.”.
btw, the plane guy called me back a few days later, looking for his part. I tried in vain to tell him I do not own a plane, hell, I don’t own a HOUSE! Why on earth would I order a part from him for a plane I do not own, nor ever intend to own? He didn’t get it. After several tries, with him getting more irritated, I explained he needed to give me a tracking number, and then I might be able to help him. He did. I explained the part was delivered to Arizona, not CA and he’s more dyslexic than I am—he’d dialed slightly the wrong number.