February 24, 2005
The joy of wrong numbers
You get a lot of deadbeats calling up some random dude in Massachusetts begging him to not disconnect their service. Stewart Woodworth says he’s logged something like 8,000 misdialed calls from Sprint customers over the past 2 1/2 years, and after Sprint refused to change their number he recorded an outgoing message on his voicemail that says: ‘Pay your Sprint bill or your service will be shut off. It’s that simple. If you don’t pay your Sprint bill, you might as well take your Sprint phone and throw it in the trash. Even a person with your limited intelligence should be able to figure that out. Go ahead – write a check. Hang up the phone, write a check, jerk.’
Given that my telephone number is one digit off from Lothian Regional Transport's Lost Property number, I get lots of strange calls from people looking for things.
Given that my telephone number is also one digit off from the London Street Sauna, I also get lots of phone calls from people who won't admit what it is that they're looking for...
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