[Magdalen] Cameron, a third grader

[Christopher Hart]

Someone I knew once had this same problem with a somewhat upscale
restaurant which had a nearly identical number. When he got calls from
people who wanted to make a reservation he just took their reservation.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:04 PM, James Oppenheimer <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>



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