Fun with phone numbers

[waywardcats]

Well, the interesting thing about a new phone number sometimes can be the calls you get for the last person with that number.  Previously i mentioned that they were receiving political calls.  Yesterday though, it got a little more personal.

The phone rang about dinner time Wednesday night, and when I picked it up an automated voice said "hold one moment".  Now, I am not a fan of robocalls, so I hung up and went about my evening.  Last night I got home a little later and there was a message waiting.  The robocall turns out to be from a school.  All the machine got was "your student has been absent for two days, please call in with an explanation".  Oops.  I don't know the school name, the student name or a phone number.  Not that I could be much help if I did, I certainly don't have the correct phone number to reach the parents.  But I do feel kinda bad that I can't even let the school know they have the wrong number. 

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[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Sometimes there's just nothing to be done. It's frustrating though.

No Caller Id? I can't think of any technical solution either!

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Kerry,

Do you have caller ID? Any way to look up that phone call? Can you look it up on your online phone bill? I can't think of any Internet tool that would help either...

-Scott

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I Probably Told You This Story Years Ago

[onyxlynx (from livejournal.com)]

When we moved (this was over 40 years ago now) the parents were assigned a phone number that turned out to have belonged to a Famous Retired Ballplayer. For the first, oh, three years at that address, we got calls for said ballplayer. (He did, I am told, call to thank us.)

On one occasion Mom got a call from someone stranded at the airport.

On another occasion, I picked up the phone to be told I'd forgotten my gloves.

As a youngling, my signature move was forgetting my gloves. And mittens. And umbrellas.

So of course, I said I'd be right there and hung up.

It took a few minutes to recall that the drugstore (the only place I'd stopped that day on the way home from school) did not have my phone number. For all I know, someone is still waiting for me to get the gloves.