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edgI just thought of something about a phone call I received/made last night. See, I've been getting phone calls from Kay's Jewelers looking for a Cassie Anthony. This isn't too far off my name, but I've never in my life bought anything from Kay's Jewelers or voluntarily subscribed to any of their contact lists, so I'm guessing it's just someone with a really similar name who happened to have my phone number previously.
(Interlude: I dislike receiving pre-recorded phone calls, as a rule. I understand that it helps the business in question save money, but so does sending out dozens of pre-generated e-mail messages at once, and we have laws dealing with that. The worst kind of recorded message, though, is the kind that doesn't identify for whom it's calling. "This is not a sales call or an unsolicited commercial message. Please call us at..." If you're going to do me the utter discourtesy of using a machine to make phone calls, at least tell me who you are.)
So I got one of these last night - the second in the last three days, after I'd asked the guy who called the first time to take me off the calling list - and it was a recorded message, and didn't identify the company for which it was calling. So I duly jotted down the phone number and called back. It was, naturally, Kay's Jewelers, calling for Cassie Anthony. And I told them that no such person lives here, and in fact I'm the only person in the house, and this is a new phone number for me, and I would appreciate it if they didn't call me again.
But the best part of the call was this: the woman on the other end of the line asked me for my phone number, and without thinking, I reversed the last two digits (-85 instead of -58). And she paused for a moment. "Well," she said, "you're calling from xxx-xxx-xx58." And I said "oh, yes, sorry, new phone number and all that".
But it just occurred to me: if she already had my phone number, why did she ask?
(It has, while I was writing that, occurred to me that maybe someone would call from a different phone line than the one on which they received the recorded message, but still: the question ought to be "Did you receive the message at xxx-xxx-xx58?".)
(Interlude: I dislike receiving pre-recorded phone calls, as a rule. I understand that it helps the business in question save money, but so does sending out dozens of pre-generated e-mail messages at once, and we have laws dealing with that. The worst kind of recorded message, though, is the kind that doesn't identify for whom it's calling. "This is not a sales call or an unsolicited commercial message. Please call us at..." If you're going to do me the utter discourtesy of using a machine to make phone calls, at least tell me who you are.)
So I got one of these last night - the second in the last three days, after I'd asked the guy who called the first time to take me off the calling list - and it was a recorded message, and didn't identify the company for which it was calling. So I duly jotted down the phone number and called back. It was, naturally, Kay's Jewelers, calling for Cassie Anthony. And I told them that no such person lives here, and in fact I'm the only person in the house, and this is a new phone number for me, and I would appreciate it if they didn't call me again.
But the best part of the call was this: the woman on the other end of the line asked me for my phone number, and without thinking, I reversed the last two digits (-85 instead of -58). And she paused for a moment. "Well," she said, "you're calling from xxx-xxx-xx58." And I said "oh, yes, sorry, new phone number and all that".
But it just occurred to me: if she already had my phone number, why did she ask?
(It has, while I was writing that, occurred to me that maybe someone would call from a different phone line than the one on which they received the recorded message, but still: the question ought to be "Did you receive the message at xxx-xxx-xx58?".)
