[Magdalen] Cameron, a third grader

[James Oppenheimer]

Hey, that's better than I would have done.

"Oh, I'm sorry, you may not have heard; they are closed. Something to do
with food poisoning."

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> Our new phone number was on file for a student at Dunmore Elementary
> School.
>
> After several robo calls,I got a human being and told her it was the wrong
> number. She promised to fix it. A few days late, the robocalls continued
> -- and
> after yet another promise to fixit ("You don’t want these calls at 5 AM on
> Snow
> Days") it STILL didn’t get fixed.
>
> So I called the Superintendent of school -- naming names of the people who
> promised to fix it, asking if they hired people who didn’t know what they
> were
> doing as a matter of district policy.
>
> The calls stopped.
>
> Then there was the Pizzeria in the Fie Towns area of Nassau County whose
> number
> was on digit off from my folks (not their lead number, but one down the
> rotary).
> May folks had been getting calls for Pizza until 1 AM some days and they'd
> asked
> the Pizzeria to change their number but they absolutely refused.
>
> So after my Dad answered a couple of these as we sat around the table at
> night
> and he explained what was going on -- I started answering the phone first.
>
> I carefully took the order for Pizza and the address and phone of the
> caller,
> and then promised "Delivery in 20 minutes or its Free." My Dad thought
> that was
> terrible, but Mom and my Grandmother were highly amused.
>
> Within a month -- the calls ceased.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
>