Disjointed Digression

I’ll occasionally read some random entries at http://notalwaysright.com/.   Some of the wrong number ones remind me of the time when my phone number ended in 2000.  Shortly after I got the number I got a call where the caller wanted to know if they had reached the public library.  Pretty soon, I got lots of calls for businesses.  Wells Fargo, a hotel, a few others.  Once on Easter Sunday at about 8 am someone called wanting to know if they had reached Classic Toyota.  Why would they call classic Toyota on Easter?  Another time, I received a call from a hotel that went something like this:
Me: "Hello?"

Hotel desk clerk, sounding annoyed: "Is that how you are answering the phone over there?"

Me: "Uh, yeah"

Hotel desk clerk: "Whatever, I need to see if you guys have a room for someone."

Me: "You do know that this is my apartment, right?"

Hotel desk clerk: "What?"

Me: "The number you called, it’s my phone at my apartment, not a hotel."

Hotel desk clerk: "I’m so sorry, have a nice day."

I set a somewhat lengthy outgoing message on my answering machine:
"You have reached (phone number, I forget the whole thing) THIS IS NOT A BUSINESS.  If you are trying to reach a business, check the number and try again." I got a lot of hang ups after that.  About a month before I moved (and disconnected that number) I decided to change my outgoing message to "Speak".  This lead to me coming home to the same number of hang ups on my machine.  One day there were two were hang ups, then on the third message an older gentleman was saying "Hello?" and on the fourth it was the same gentleman saying "Listen, damnit, I just want to get a room there, stop playing games.  All I want is to rent a room!"

And to think when I got that phone number I figured it would be easy to remember!

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