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From: "Michael I. Bushnell" <mike@turing.cs.unm.edu>
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Subject: Re: The Persistent Wrong Number Bozo
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Date: 14 Mar 90 17:15:10 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 172, Message 1 of 10


I have a particularly sad example of the wrong number problem.  My
parents have been at the same number for about 30 years.  Last
Christmas, we got a call from an old woman looking for Mary.  We have
no Mary.  After the fourth call or so, the poor caller was nearly in
tears.  It seems this friend of hers had moved, left our number (by
mistake, obviously) and now she could find no way to get ahold of her.
It was all quite tragic.


    Michael I. Bushnell      \     This above all; to thine own self be true
LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE  \    And it must follow, as the night the day,
   mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu     /\   Thou canst not be false to any man.
        CARPE DIEM           /  \  Farewell:  my blessing season this in thee!