Phone rings at 4am. Man's voice "I wanna talk to EZRA!""who??""EZRA! Give the phone to EZRA!""I'm sorry theres no Ezra here" That went round and round for a few minutes. That was over 30 years ago and I have never forgotten it. Wonder who Ezra was?
Maybe the father or grandfather of Monica?
That's who was wanted the other morning, and the woman on the other end of the line was likewise nonplussed at the information that Monica wasn't available, though she didn't get argumentative about it.
Didn't apologize, either. I've noticed, in fact, that those who call wrong numbers at unreasonable hours of the night/morning, rarely bother to apologize for having obviously woken me up.
I don't know about you, but around here, when the phone rings before 8 a.m., it is by definition not good news. People don't call at 5 a.m. to ask you over for dinner or tell you about their new car.
So when people do that at 5 a.m., there's the double effect of waking us up and terrifying us that something terrible has happened.
You're right as rain, except what most of our wee-hour-of-the-morning calls are, are calls from inhabitants of a retirement center that was assigned a phone number one digit different from the one we've had for nigh onto thirty years.
What Mrs. Teal and Mrs. Hains (two of my regulars) are needing to talk to the office about at 4 a.m., I can't think.
This call was for a person as opposed to "Is this the office?", so presumably it was a maverick.
I was taught you never call anyone before 9am and after 9pm. My husband was taught to call when you felt like it so we've had our share of arguments about it.
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Phone rings at 4am. Man's voice "I wanna talk to EZRA!""who??""EZRA! Give the phone to EZRA!""I'm sorry theres no Ezra here" That went round and round for a few minutes. That was over 30 years ago and I have never forgotten it. Wonder who Ezra was?
Maybe the father or grandfather of Monica?
That's who was wanted the other morning, and the woman on the other end of the line was likewise nonplussed at the information that Monica wasn't available, though she didn't get argumentative about it.
Didn't apologize, either. I've noticed, in fact, that those who call wrong numbers at unreasonable hours of the night/morning, rarely bother to apologize for having obviously woken me up.
I don't know about you, but around here, when the phone rings before 8 a.m., it is by definition not good news. People don't call at 5 a.m. to ask you over for dinner or tell you about their new car.
So when people do that at 5 a.m., there's the double effect of waking us up and terrifying us that something terrible has happened.
You're right as rain, except what most of our wee-hour-of-the-morning calls are, are calls from inhabitants of a retirement center that was assigned a phone number one digit different from the one we've had for nigh onto thirty years.
What Mrs. Teal and Mrs. Hains (two of my regulars) are needing to talk to the office about at 4 a.m., I can't think.
This call was for a person as opposed to "Is this the office?", so presumably it was a maverick.
I was taught you never call anyone before 9am and after 9pm. My husband was taught to call when you felt like it so we've had our share of arguments about it.
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