I've never had anyone just hang up on me, that's terrible!! I ended up having quite a lovely conversation with a wrong number once because she just KEPT CALLING - she was convinced she had the right number. It was fun.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
zuisa - Nov 10, 2010 7:37:03 am PST #4647 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Gudanov - Nov 10, 2010 7:39:40 am PST #4648 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
The worst wrong number callers are collection agencies. They never believe they got the wrong number.
Liese S. - Nov 10, 2010 7:44:32 am PST #4649 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, we got a cel phone number once that had just been owned by someone in deep debt trouble. And then once we knew her name from the number of collectors calling, they really really didn't believe it was a wrong number.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 10, 2010 7:45:52 am PST #4650 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The worst wrong number callers are collection agencies. They never believe they got the wrong number.
Often they have something that was the right number once upon a time, but isn't anymore. They have no excuse for persisting if the person they get is listed in the age of the internet, though.
hippocampus - Nov 10, 2010 7:47:00 am PST #4651 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Liese, insent on facebook
Liese S. - Nov 10, 2010 7:52:27 am PST #4652 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Awesome! Reinsent!
Kathy A - Nov 10, 2010 7:55:15 am PST #4653 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The worst wrong number callers are collection agencies. They never believe they got the wrong number.
A few years ago, there was some guy who used my work number as his contact number for whatever bills he was intending on ducking out on, so I kept getting collection agency calls for over a year. I told them time and again that I'd had this phone number for 15 years and the guy who they were looking for had never worked here, and they were usually really nice about taking my number off of their list.
Burrell - Nov 10, 2010 8:07:09 am PST #4654 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Social meara:
Thank you Vortex for posting about Tumblr and delicious. I am right there with you. And I feel extra lame because delicious seems like it would be very useful from a work perspective, but I can't figure out how to incorporate it into my teaching.
I don't have Veterans' Day off but my kids do. I need to come up with an activity to do with them. Maybe the Observatory? The Zoo? A museum? don't know yet.
Yay for new kitties, FredPete. They sound uber cute.
msbelle - Nov 10, 2010 8:11:07 am PST #4655 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I know this is a longshot, but if anyone knows of a family that is seriously thinking about adoption and is open to the idea of an older sibling group, there are 3 siblings with my agency that are getting close to being separated. There are some special needs, but the kids are all healthy. It would be probably best for a family with no other children or with children who are older and already out of the home. I can get more info, people can email me.
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2010 8:11:44 am PST #4656 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't figure out how to incorporate it into my teaching.
As a resource list?