As a side note and since I have no pictures to go with this particular post, I got a haircut last week! |
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Telephone Conversations with Strangers
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As a side note and since I have no pictures to go with this particular post, I got a haircut last week! |
When my Dad was in the U.S., he just got a track phone with apparently a re-used number because nearly every day he'd get a call for "Ruth" from money-lenders....apparently he got the ex-number of a lady who did not pay her bills. He tried his best to tell them everytime "This is not her number anymore" but the phone calls never stopped. He was only around for 4 months...but if it had been long-term I do not think he would have wanted to keep the number! It's funny the people we can end up talking to on the phone...my grandparents' number is one number off from a local pizza place and every once in a while they'd get a call from someone who wanted to order a pizza!
ReplyDeleteHow funny about the pizza place! I did that once with a business number where I got the number wrong and called someone's house! It was so awkward! And that would get so annoying to be in your dad's situation. I'm sure the credit companies were relentless and didn't care who answered the phone, just so long as they could log that they made an attempt to contact "Ruth."
DeleteWe've had our phone numbers forever too. We got them first when living in Hawaii but now that we are in Alabama the best part is the 3am wrong numbers from Hawaii. Other than that we just spent the last 2 years in Korea. THOSE wrong numbers happen all. the. time. Only I don't speak Korean. I'd always just say ENGLISH and they would keep talking like I knew exactly what was up. And when I hung up they would text me :|
ReplyDeleteI got A LOT of misdialed calls to my American phone in the middle of the night when I lived in China (which was really annoying and I never answered them). Luckily I didn't get too many wrong numbers on my Chinese phone, but I did get a ton of texts. Sometimes they were from the cellular company, other times just random people. It is so scary speaking foreign languages on the phone!
DeleteI hardly get any phone calls, since so few people actually have my number. But yesterday I got a call I'd been waiting for about a job opportunity, and I realised I have no idea how to answer my phone in German! How did I miss that?! So I awkwardly answered in English, and then switched into German - but it was so awkward as neither of us knew what language to speak in.
ReplyDeleteOh how funny! Answering with hello seems so normal to me, but I'm so glad when I learned Chinese they taught us how to answer the phone from the get-go since they don't use the same word that you would us to greet someone in person. Did you figure out after the phone call how to answer the phone in German? ;) Looking forward to hearing how it goes with the potential job!
DeleteHaha. That's crazy that people have such a hard time with your name. Pretty sure if someone said "This is... {whatever}" I'd assume that was their name. Also, your haircut is really cute!
ReplyDeleteHaha, it is so funny/crazy and sometimes even rude how people react to my name. Someone told me yesterday at work that my parent's must have had a sense of humor...I wanted to say really bad that I didn't really think my name was funny or a joke...but I guess that was how they took it! People sometimes!
DeleteThanks, my haircut definitely has "grown" on me over the past week! I'm never sure at first if I truly like it. haha