JackMcCornack wrote:
When I was a wee lad, long before robocalls, some woman gave out our home number as hers (ours was FR5-xxxx and hers was FR2-xxxx, yes our prefix was FRontier) and had apparently printed it out on business cards or something. She called allegedly to apologize, but really to have my dad give the correct number when people called for her. I remember it didn't go well, and for a while there, the phone would ring at odd hours, and my dad would say, pleasantly and politely, "I'm sorry, she's upstairs with a customer."
That reminds me of a small company that I worked for years ago (OK, so everything happened years ago). We had a sales ep that was late to make a presentation to the board of a hospital. He drove a 73 Mercedes 289SL at the time. Since he was late and the parking lot was full up close, he chose to park in a Doctor's dedicated space.
He went in and made his presentation. Afterwards he stopped at the bank of phone booths (told you it was a long time ago) to check voice mail. A competitor's rep did the same thing. After they checked their VMS they talked for a moment and exchanged business cards.
Jack then proceeded to his car to find a security guard waiting for him. The guard proceeded to lecture Jack and tell him that next time his car would be towed. The Guard was relentless, so Jack had enough and produced his competitor's card and said " I was in a hurry to present to your Board. If you have a problem with where I parked0 take it up with my Boss. I really don't care". With that he got in his SL and drove away!
Thom