On my home phone...the names are changed to protect the innocent:
Friday 9:33am
Oh, Hello this is Ida, it's uh 9:35 on Friday morning. Yesterday they were ??? meeting and I found out Maude has fallen again and so I just called Maude and she has broken her spine so she won't be around tomorrow and so I'm wondering about the coffee cake. Mildred just speak to me yesterday at 12:15 so we are going to go over so I'm going to get everything in that room ready for tomorrow so we don't have to have a lot of last minute stuff tomorrow and so I'll be gone for a while so I'll be gone for a couple of hours an hour and a half or something or other umm
Abby's supposed to be getting home this afternoon from Tuscon ??? so I don't have any transportation to get any coffee cake I think we probably need a coffee cake so I don't know what you want to do about that. ??? That sounds terrible ??? I don't think they can do a thing for the spine. Anyway I think I gave you her address so you can send her a card. If you get this before 12:15 give me a jingle, I think we need a coffee cake.
??? = too low or mumbled to understand
That's Ida Thoughtyouwouldhaveknownbynow.
Surely you remember her from the old knock knock joke where it turns out she's the one who knocked.
Maude fell again? Lord a mercy, I hope she's alright.
Thanks for passing the message along. I was expecting that call. She must have mis dialed one digit or two.
Mmmmmm....coffee cake
I'd suspect that's a typical Karoly call. Kinda reminds me of some (many) of your posts:-D
Well... Go buy a coffee cake. What are you waiting for? For her to break a leg too?...
Beer man above is right. Really. He does not always think clearly, but that time he BINGO-ed it! 🙂
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Very Wrong Ring Ring!
Things could be worse. Some years ago a local medical clinic was acquired by a larger medical corporation. This happened to be the clinic at which my personal physician practiced. Shortly after I began receiving calls at my home number asking for doctors at the clinic. I finally asked one of the callers where they got the number. The answer was from the organizations web page for the local clinic. I called the clinic using a number for the switchboard/answering service and explained the situation. Operator and supervisor said they would check into the situation.
Calls continued at intervals for several months. One morning at 3 AM I got a call from the local emergency room tying to contact the on call MD for the clinic. I gave them the correct number, by this point I had it memorized, and decided this was the limit. Later that morning I started making phone calls to the clinic and offices of the larger corporation. The story of the 3 AM emergency call finally got their attention. The last four digits of my phone number were the same as the large corporation's internal system extension fro the clinic. The internal system in a different city had the extension numbers and the external direct dial last four the same. When IT set up the new web page the assumed the same held for a different area code and phone exchange.
Meanwhile all the search engines picked up the information and searches for about half the doctors at the clinic returned my number. It took their IT department over a year to get the incorrect information cleared from all the search engines.
Very Wrong Ring Ring!
I used to work at place where the previous holder of the number was a 'family planning clinic'. The first time someone called and asked if we did abortions I thought it was a sick joke. I told them I didn't think our work was that bad...
Our number used to be similar to a bail bondsmen. We got one or two interesting messages every other month or so.
Years ago my only phone number ended in the same four digits as the nearest Pizza Hut delivery number. That was entertaining.
One night I received a phone call from a town 25 miles away about a job. When I asked for his number it turned out it was within one number of being identical to mine. Where I had a 2 he had a 3. I wondered how many trying to reach me had called him by mistake. He was the pastor of a fairly large church. His response to their request might have started out something like, "Let me show you the way."
NO COFFEE-CAKE FOR YOU!!!! (THE COFFEE CAKE NAZI)
