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From: levine@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Leonard P Levine)
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Subject: Re: Avoiding Unlisted Number Charge
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Date: 29 Jun 90 02:51:07 GMT
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Some years ago we listed our phone in the name of our cat, Mehitabel.
We received many calls for Ms. DeKatte, and we generally responded
that she was out in the garage under the car, or in the front yard
climbing a tree, true responses generally.  The only time we had a
problem was when, one dark and stormy night, a salesman came to call
on our cat with a life insurance offer.  He was wet through, and I did
not have the heart to tell him who he was looking for (he wanted Miss
Mehitabel Dekkett) and we let him go back in the rain.

A good time was had by all.  This was the most fun I ever had since
the time I declared my house to be on daylight savings time and
demanded evening rates one hour earlier than the rest of Minnesota
from the phone company.  I made the Minneaplis Star(?) on that one.


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