When a Stranger Calls

I believe you all had ever received phone calls about promotions of different products and services. It happens in Scotland too. In fact, I found that I received this type of phone calls more frequently here than in Kuala Lumpur. Perhaps I seldom stayed at home when I was in Kuala Lumpur.

Among these phone calls, promotions about telecommunication, i.e. phone line and internet service are the most common. Even though we didn’t give our house phone number to those companies, but they still can get the number. Sometimes, I receive two or three calls in one afternoon. Just imagine, perhaps I just finished my jobs at the hospitals or clinics and hoped to have some rest, perhaps I was stuck in my thesis or articles writing, perhaps I was busy with blogging, so those phone calls were really disturbing. Normally, I tried my best to answer those phone calls as polite as I can since I know that making phone calls is their job and responsibility. But I really fed up with those phone calls which are automatically made by machine and/or software. When receiving this kind of phone calls, I just hung up my phone.

However, I received the funniest phone call I had ever received just now. Here was our conversation:

“Hi, this is XX from XX Company. I called a lady just now about changing the phone plan. Can I speak to her?”

“Sorry, I think you have wrong number.”

“Oh, no, I just called this number and talked to the lady. Can you ask her to speak to me?”

“Er… The problem is I’m the only lady here and I didn’t speak to anyone over the phone this afternoon.”

“Hahaha…” He laughed and said, “I can’t play the same trick on you.”

It’s really funny, right? What an honest guy.

By the way, when I hung up my phone, a thought flew into my mind, “What makes me so confident that I’m the only lady in this house?”