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From: denber.wbst@xerox.com
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Subject: Sorry, Wrong Number
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Date: 13 Dec 89 20:47:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 571, message 10 of 11

We've all heard jokes about people who leave obscene phone calls on
answering machines.  Well, today someone left a "wrong-number" on my
answering machine.  I found a recording today that went "This is Mr.
Fnord (name changed to protect the seriously confused).  Please call
me at xxx-xxxx."  So I call him back and get his secretary.  I tell
her I got this message.  She doesn't know what I'm talking about and
puts me on hold.  Several minutes later the conversation went like
this:

"Mr. Fnord didn't call you."
"But I have his message right here - how would I have known to call him?"
"Oh, it must have been a wrong number."
"Then why did he leave a message?"
"He was calling someone else."
"Oh."

At this point I decided to quit before we got to the old line about
"Well if it was a wrong number, why did you answer the phone?".  Makes
you wonder.

			- Michel

[Moderator's Note: Too bad you don't have an answering machine like
Anton Rang (see two messages above).  :)   PT]