Re: Need Help With a Telephone Mystery |
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The Kaminsky Family (kaminsky@kaminsky.org) Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:47:25 -0800
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Joe Morris wrote:
> My father told a story from back in the 1940s: for some reason people
> He finally fixed the problem by responding to the calls complaining
When I was growing up in New York City, our phone number, with two
But the real kicker was one night when the phone rang at 4 AM.
"Hello?"
"We got one for you."
"Huh?"
"We got one for you."
"One what?"
"Isn't this the morgue?"
I don't think I got back to sleep that night.
Turns out our phone number was off by one, in the first digit, from
Mark |
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