This morning around 8 am my phone rang. No one calls me that early unless its urgent, or a wrong number. I checked and it was a random Utah number I had never heard of. So I ignored it and went back to sleep.
Sure enough, they left me yet another random voicemail for someone I had never heard of. This time, I got a detailed visiting teaching report. Everyone gets wrong numbers at some point or another. I have a long history of receiving the same person's wrong numbers again and again and again.
Her name is Emily. I don't know her, nor have I ever talked to her, but I feel like I am some kind of voyeuristic stranger in her life. Over the last five years I have received detailed reports from her dentist, appointment reminders from her doctor, car accident details from her insurance company, job offers and interviews from employers, and loan details from her banker.
TMI, seriously.
Why don't people listen to voicemail messages? I have my name clearly spoken on there. At first when I received messages for Emily, I felt bad and would call the number back to tell them they dialed wrong. But after a couple of failed communication attempts, I have just given up. Emily really just needs to start writing her phone number more clearly on her paperwork.
3 comments:
This happens to Chad all the time. His calls are for some kid who keeps ditching school! ;-) He gets them on his cell phone...annoying!
Maybe your number is the fake number Emily gives to everyone she doesn't want to hear from. My friend Katie had such a person, she eventually called the cops who left a message on the chick's phone telling her to stop.
I never thought of that Liz. But I would guess she would want messages about job offers and insurance money, right? Her phone number is actually just one digit off of mine, I think its 4147 or something that looks an awful lot like 4747.
I think I just got annoyed because it seemed like Emily had a better social life than me, and I am NOT her secretary
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