Re: Need Help With a Telephone Mystery |
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DLR (news22@raleighthings.com) Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:49:49 -0500
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> My father told a story from back in the 1940s: for some reason people > kept calling his phone (obTelecomHistory: WAlnut, a manual exchange in > uptown New Orleans) when they wanted to contact their local grocery to > have food delivered. (Yes, some groceries did that 'way back > when ... PeaPod is nothing new.) Apparently someone at the grocery was > giving out the wrong number and complaints to the grocery didn't help.
> He finally fixed the problem by responding to the calls complaining
When I moved to NC in 87, we were given a number that had belong to a
About once a month we got a call and politely told them we didn't know
"I've been arrested, can you bail me out?" It was on the answering
The other day, I got a call the caller id showed as a hispanic name
Is there any other way to deal with this? |
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