At 01:29 PM 4/4/02, you wrote: >Here's a new one. I just took a call from Southwestern Bell, our >telephone company. It turned out to be a wrong number. > >(I looked up the name she'd asked for, and noted that the number listed >under that name could conceivably be mis-dialed as ours, but it would >take a bit more effort than the usual missing one number -- the last 4 >digits of our phone number are ABAC and the caller had dialed BABC >instead.) > > Julia
Dyslexia, perhaps? In addition to calls for other "Blankenships" with similar initials to my father and now myself, we used to get a lot of calls for a ceramics store in town called the "Pixie Pottery". IIRC, the three prefix digits were the same, but the rest of the two numbers were too dissimilar for the number of misdirected calls to be easily explained, so we wondered if the two circuits were somehow crossed at the phone company . . . -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
