MJK2660@ritvm.bitnet (Mike Koziol) (12/20/89)
A quick scenario: I had just finished a 16 hour shift at work, gone to the dentist, and had about 4 hours to sleep before going in for another 16 hour day. As my head hit the pillow I remembered that I had forgotten to turn off the ringers to the phones, and I didn't even want to consider getting up to turn them off, I dropped the handset of my trendline (fastened to the frame on the waterbed for convenience sake) to the floor. In what seemed a very short time later the phones started ringing. Even in my incoherent state I realized that I couldn't answer the phone when it was already off the hook!! What's a poor boy to do? Hang up he phone, curse myself for not turning off the ringers, and get up (slowly) and go to work. I can only think of a couple reasons the phones would ring, the switch wanted to alert me my phone was off the hook, or someone had asked the operator to "check the line". Any ideas?