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hello? Hi is Debbie there please? Uh no you have the wrong number. Thats not Debbie Patterson? No. You have the Wrong Number. Oh I’m very sorry. Yeah. Bye. Hello? Hi is that you Debbie or is it your daughter? What?? Is that you Debbie? No. Can I speak to Debbie. There is no Debbie at this number. Is that *** ****? Yes. Well thats Debbies phone number! There is NO Debbie here. Do you live in ********* Street? Yes. Thats where Debbie lives. Look, there is no Debbie here, obviously she gave you the wrong number. Its just a coincidence we live in the same street. Oh Okay. Bye. Bye. Hello? Hi, are you the person I was speaking with before. Yes, sigh. Look I’ve looked up Debbie in the phone book and its this number. How long have you lived there? What number ********* Street are you? I’m not going to tell you that. Well why not? Because you’re a complete stranger. Oh well okay then. Look do you think its a misprint in the phone book? No. I think you should ring 018 (new zealand directory) and see if you can get the correct number for her. Thats a good idea, thanks very much. Yeah. Whatever. Bye. If that woman rings me back tonight I’m going to get very angry. I’m not in any way, shape or form related to stupid Debbie Patterson, and I’m sick of having conversations with stupid people who don’t listen or can’t imagine that perhaps Debbie Patterson changed her phone number to keep them away from her. Grrrrrrrr. |
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If it happens again I'll say 'uno momento' and get my mum to pretend to be Debbie. Good plan - thanks Jay. |
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Perhaps we should investigate the New Zealand directory and see for ourselves who this debiie person is. |
But i just looked at the online white pages and found a D Patterson down the same street but not at the number the woman told me last night. Which means that the stupid cow wont be able to get her through 018 and will no doubt be ringing me again. |
That will give me something to do for the rest of the day. |
"Sorry, Debbie can't come to the phone right now, her face is in my crotch." Probably won't get too many phone calls after that. |
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So I just moved to a new town about a month ago, and one of the first calls I get in the new house is this old lady again looking for her daughter Jennifer. The damn phone had just been turned on maybe the day before we moved in...an operator gave her the number again, she says. But this is the part that freaks me out most: the old lady says, "She called me at the cemetery yesterday. And the operator tells me it was from this number." Now, I get chills when she says this, because I'm automatically thinking this old woman's a ghost or something, and oh, great, this place is haunted or she's following me or something. Because who ever says, "She called me at the cemetery?" But trying to be skeptical, I've been looking at the mail for past tenants, and none of it's for any Jennifer, just in case she might've per chance lived here before and had the same damn number I got when switching towns. And another thing, there was no one in this house for at least a month before we moved in here. I've really got to get my shit together and ask this lady some questions next time she calls. Any suggestions? |
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ask her if she likes scary monsters. tell her that her daughter is probably going thru a phase and will get in touch with her when the time is right. probably when she gets pregnant. |
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i called somewhere the other day and some chick answered the phone "bueno". i guess it was the housekeeper or something. i asked if who i was looking for was there and she said "no here" and just hung up. it made no sense to me. i mean why even answer the phone if you aren't going to be able to understand whats being said. i mean i guess she understood enough to tell me he wasn't home but it's like christ, let the answering machine get it. at least that way i can leave a message. if i went to some foreign country i wouldn't go around answering peoples phone. like all of a sudden theres gonna be some english speaking voice on the end of a phone line in fucking mozambique. can you take me back where i came from can you take me back can you take me back where i came from brother can you take me back can you take me back can you take me where i came from can you take me back. |
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Perhaps the owners of the house asked her to answer the phone and she got flustered? Maybe you called a wrong number, and she was simply being obliging by telling you they weren't there? I should start doing that to wrong numbers. "Hello, is such and so there?" "no here." |
yeah i think i'll start doing the "no here" thing myself. when bill collectors call. |
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