At 11:07 AM 4/6/02, Dan M. wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:30 PM >Subject: Re: Good grief! (Telephone related) > > > > Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > > > > > And after years of the above at home (after which the phone company >redrew > > > their districts and changed our number), I got my commission and became >an > > > engineer working on flight test in the Air Force. I had several phone > > > lines that went through the secretary, and one which went directly to my > > > desk: extension 3303. The appointment desk at the base hospital had > > > extension 3033 . . . > > > > You win. :) > > > > Unless someone else wants to try to top that. I certainly can't. > > > >Well, this isn't a personal story, but I know a friend who worked at an >auto body shop where they had to change the way they answered the phone. >They were 1 digit off from a funeral parlor. > >Some people were _very_ upset when they answered
*Ouch!* I didn't even have to read the last line to know where _that_ was going . . . -- 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)
