Nuisance calls
For the past week, I've been receiving this same phone call at home.
The person calls my house and cuts off after the first ring. This, of course, makes it impossible for me to run to the phone in time, no matter how big my foot is, or how many feet I've got. So anyway its damn irritating because she normally calls at around 10.30am, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. This is, of course, the time when I'm still snuggling in my nice, warm bed, enjoying what's left of my time of unemployment and, most importantly, getting my beauty sleep.
I hate phone calls in the morning, because they wake me up. Unless, of course, you are calling to tell me I got a job or something. That, I don't mind. Bother me all you want, and I'll still say "I love you". Or maybe, if you're this really cute guy who dialed the wrong number, its okay too.
Okay, I'm digressing.
The point is, she woke me up every darn morning for the whole of last week and today. Okay, I hear the question coming. How the hell do you know its a woman who called and not a guy if he/she hung up on the first ring? Because I called back, okay? Bless the Father, Son and Holy Ghost for this invention called the caller ID. I called back and this woman picked up. Actually she sounded like a teenage girl, but of course she could have been seventy and dying, for all I know. So anyway I called her back and got right to the point. I said, excuse me, lady, but would you stop calling me and hanging up on me, everyday?
I think I frightened her, though, and she apologised.
Now hear her version of the story. She called my house, because she wanted to call Serangoon JC. I think when she said that, my brain emptied itself into the toilet bowl for a while.
Who the hell can call the same wrong number for a whole blardy week? Anyway she claimed that she called this other number and the automatic operator goes "Welcome to Serangoon JC" and directs her call to my number. She seemed to figure out somehow that when it starts ringing after the operator, it means it isn't SRJC already and so she hangs up immediately.
Pardon my french, but what shit is this? Does she honestly think I'll buy that story? Do I even want to believe it? I mean, I seriously find it hard to believe that she's the only person in the whole wide world trying to contact SR in the past week. If what she said were true, then the whole world would be bombarding my house with stupid calls. Secondly, even if she's the only one who entered this 3rd dimension phantom phone call where it directs SR calls to mine, then who, with half a centimetre of brain would keep trying the same number over and over again for a whole week when she knows the number will get her no where?
Let me give you some advice, girl.
Check and double check and triple check to see if you're dialing the right number.
If u are completely sure,and the person on the other line says "wrong numberrrrr....", chances are, it IS the wrong number.
If you do want to try your luck for a couple of times, thinking you might get lucky, say on the 30th call, FORGET IT. This ain't no poker table.
You should try searching for an alternative number, like either from the web, or by dialing the 100 number.
Should this fail, email or snail-mail them. Chances are, hotmail and Mr Postman will get it right.
If you are living in the stone age and you don't have a computer, or you have a phobia of emails and therefore you really need to make that call, then privatise your phone line. That way, the annoyed person on the other line, can't call back or call the triple nine hotline.
I'm kidding! Don't privatise your line. I hate nothing more then a privatised phone line because you don't know who's on the other line, and that annoys me full time. All the time.
But seriously, girl, if after trying a whole week and you still can't get the right line, forget it. Go back and sleep, okay?
The person calls my house and cuts off after the first ring. This, of course, makes it impossible for me to run to the phone in time, no matter how big my foot is, or how many feet I've got. So anyway its damn irritating because she normally calls at around 10.30am, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. This is, of course, the time when I'm still snuggling in my nice, warm bed, enjoying what's left of my time of unemployment and, most importantly, getting my beauty sleep.
I hate phone calls in the morning, because they wake me up. Unless, of course, you are calling to tell me I got a job or something. That, I don't mind. Bother me all you want, and I'll still say "I love you". Or maybe, if you're this really cute guy who dialed the wrong number, its okay too.
Okay, I'm digressing.
The point is, she woke me up every darn morning for the whole of last week and today. Okay, I hear the question coming. How the hell do you know its a woman who called and not a guy if he/she hung up on the first ring? Because I called back, okay? Bless the Father, Son and Holy Ghost for this invention called the caller ID. I called back and this woman picked up. Actually she sounded like a teenage girl, but of course she could have been seventy and dying, for all I know. So anyway I called her back and got right to the point. I said, excuse me, lady, but would you stop calling me and hanging up on me, everyday?
I think I frightened her, though, and she apologised.
Now hear her version of the story. She called my house, because she wanted to call Serangoon JC. I think when she said that, my brain emptied itself into the toilet bowl for a while.
Who the hell can call the same wrong number for a whole blardy week? Anyway she claimed that she called this other number and the automatic operator goes "Welcome to Serangoon JC" and directs her call to my number. She seemed to figure out somehow that when it starts ringing after the operator, it means it isn't SRJC already and so she hangs up immediately.
Pardon my french, but what shit is this? Does she honestly think I'll buy that story? Do I even want to believe it? I mean, I seriously find it hard to believe that she's the only person in the whole wide world trying to contact SR in the past week. If what she said were true, then the whole world would be bombarding my house with stupid calls. Secondly, even if she's the only one who entered this 3rd dimension phantom phone call where it directs SR calls to mine, then who, with half a centimetre of brain would keep trying the same number over and over again for a whole week when she knows the number will get her no where?
Let me give you some advice, girl.
Check and double check and triple check to see if you're dialing the right number.
If u are completely sure,and the person on the other line says "wrong numberrrrr....", chances are, it IS the wrong number.
If you do want to try your luck for a couple of times, thinking you might get lucky, say on the 30th call, FORGET IT. This ain't no poker table.
You should try searching for an alternative number, like either from the web, or by dialing the 100 number.
Should this fail, email or snail-mail them. Chances are, hotmail and Mr Postman will get it right.
If you are living in the stone age and you don't have a computer, or you have a phobia of emails and therefore you really need to make that call, then privatise your phone line. That way, the annoyed person on the other line, can't call back or call the triple nine hotline.
I'm kidding! Don't privatise your line. I hate nothing more then a privatised phone line because you don't know who's on the other line, and that annoys me full time. All the time.
But seriously, girl, if after trying a whole week and you still can't get the right line, forget it. Go back and sleep, okay?
posted by Adelyn @ 11:34 AM
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