[Magdalen] Cameron, a third grader

[Christopher Hart]

A close friend of mine gets so many calls for a local doctor's office that
his answering machine message now begins with "You've dialed the wrong
number if you are calling Dr. ????. If not, please leave a message..."

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:16 PM, James Oppenheimer <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh, by all means do so!!  It will make it more likely that they'll get
> their heads out of their posterior and do what needs to be done.
>
> Alternatively, she should say, "Oh, I so sorry to tell you this, but they
> are dead."
>
> My allergist had a number that was accidentally given out wrong, and the
> folks receiving the call got tired of it and began telling whoever called,
> "Oh, they've closed. Moved out of state."
>
> Things got corrected so quickly! ! !
>
> 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 Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:55 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Cameron is a third-grader at a local Charter School.
> >
> > For some reason (number dyslexia/transposition? demonic
> > intervention?) the school has my gf's cell phone as his
> > parents' contact number. She gets daily phone calls.
> > Cameron is (apparently) quite a handful.
> >
> > Every day she calls the school to tell them the reason the
> > parents haven't called back per their request is because
> > they never got the message. Every day she's assured the
> > number has been corrected in the school's database.
> >
> > This has been going on for a month now. I'm ready to
> > write it up for Boston Magazine.
> >
> > O brave new world.
> > -M
> >
>



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