Wrong Numbers
Okay, while we’re on the topic of wrong phone numbers (see here), I was reminded of this. Actually, I’m not sure if I wrote about this before, but screw that, I’ll tell it again.
I was speaking to my cousin on the phone when the call waiting beep starts to sound. The regulatory “who’s side is that call waiting on?” question was asked, and then that music came on. A little while later, my cousin comes back with a story, “Well I got rang up by someone looking for a Sarah,” noting that Sarah is the name of his girlfriend, “so I told them she was at the hospital catching babies,” noting that this means she’s a med student at uni, and was delivering babies, “to which they replied, ‘What??’. So I said to her, ‘Who is this?’ because it was a little weird that they should be calling my house, instead of her’s. The reply was, ‘This is her sister’. Sarah doesn’t have a sister, at least not one that I know of, heh. Wrong number. Different Sarah.” So he sent her on her way.
That’s not all, though. About a week later, I gave a call to my cousin, and I got greeted by an answering machine: “Hi, this is Sarah, leave you name, number and message after the beep.” I rerang and got my cousin. I didn’t know he had an answering machine, and why would Sarah’s voice be on it? “Do you have an answering machine?” “No.” “Ah. I must’ve got a wrong number.“
Answering machines… the worst thing to hear when you’ve only got a payphone and 40 cents left to make a call. Even worse when, as with that same cousin above, you buy a block of time (30 minutes I think) for a single overseas call, and end up having a 60 second conversation with an answering machine.
11:52pm (GMT +10.00) 
