Monday, October 29, 2012

The Telephone Is Ringing

Hey, this is fun. (510) 545-6722 called us, but hung up after one ring. Apparently it's some fucking pest who asks if Jessica's there, per here & here.

Luckily we're in a relatively good mood, but the possibility of that number being called at an inconvenient hr. & abused w/in an inch of its sad empty life may be greater the closer we come to an inconvenient hr. How much of our laundry money would it take to call Oaktown from a pay 'phone here? Might just be worth it.

Even more fun would be had if there's a reverse 'phone book on the Internet we could use to get a physical address for those seeking Jessica. You call us uninvited, we break your fucking window. (Luckily for whoever, there's no free service that we could find before we got bored.)

5 comments:

OBS said...

Verizon texted me this morning at fucking SIX and woke me up to tell me that my wife had used 50% of her texting for the month. It resets on the 3rd. Thanks Verizon, I really needed that super helpful information at SIX IN THE FUCKING MORNING! Bastards.

Which is a long winded way of saying that if this happens to be somebody's cell phone you should use one of the free SMS texting web services to send this person eleventy million texts.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

OBS, the requirement for phone companies to notify you when certain thresholds are reached was something the CFPB did, I think. Overall, it is a good thing.

Of course, that doesn't stop phone companies from implementing it in the most annoying way possible, probably hoping people get annoyed enough that they complain and they can go back to just letting people go way over their limits with no warning until the bill comes.

Which, based on your case, seems to be well on its way.

M. Bouffant said...

Telecom Editor:
Naw, it's ID'd as a landline. But our cable landline is identified as a cell when we look our number up, so who effin' knows.

Meanwhile, the Retirement Editor wonders if you're married to a twenty-nothing.

OBS said...

OBS, the requirement for phone companies to notify you when certain thresholds are reached was something the CFPB did, I think. Overall, it is a good thing.

Ah, I didn't know that. And yeah, it is a good thing in that case. It would've been nice for them to wait until noon though.

Meanwhile, the Retirement Editor wonders if you're married to a twenty-nothing.

Nope, a really chatty forty-something.

Related: working on a university campus has taught me a few things -- twenty-nothings can be quite nice to look at but tend to be silly self-obsessed twits. I'm absolutely certain I was not like that (hah!).

M. Bouffant said...

Robbing the Grave, Not the Cradle Editor:
We like dames our age because they remember 'Nam & Nixon, &c. Very tiresome for all concerned explaining one's many ancient references. Credit to Mme. Snob for maintaining a youthful attitude 'though.

And we certainly don't remember being self-absorbed way back when. Mostly because there were no hominids but ourself walking the earth.