dattier@jolnet.orpk.il.us (David Tamkin) (04/05/89)
In Digest volume 9, issue 123, Will Martin <wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil> wrote in response to the previous submission about someone who repeatedly calls a Digest subscriber's business, expecting to reach the phone number of a racquetball court: | There are several possible explanations for the repeated mistaken calls | to your phone from the same calling number always wanting the racketball | court. | Possible causes: | 1) [caller has defective telephone] | 2) [caller has poor view of dial or keypad] | 3) [caller has visual or motor difficulties] | 4) [telco has a problem] | 5) [caller keeps rereading public posting with wrong number on it] There are a couple other possibilites that come to mind: 6) The caller keeps rereading a handwritten note with what he thinks is the racquetball court's number and swears every time that this is the piece of paper with the *right* number on it (why he doesn't throw it out so that only the right one is around, I don't know). 7) The caller has an incorrect number preprogrammed into a Speed Dial code or into an autodialing key on the phone. Someone else programmed the numbers and marked this one "Racquetball Court" but the caller is too nontechie to grasp that the friend goofed. 8) The caller programmed a Speed Dial code or an autodial key himself with the Raceptball Court's number (so he thought), but did it wrong and keeps making the same mistake when he tries to reprogram it. 9) The caller keeps forgetting to reprogram the Speed Dial code or the autodial key but thinking he fixed it already and then tries it again. David W. Tamkin Post Office Box 567542 Norridge, Illinois 60656-7542 dattier@jolnet.orpk.il.us Jolnet Public Access Unix GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN ...!killer!jolnet!dattier Orland Park, Illinois CIS: 73720,1570 Anyone on Jolnet who agrees with me is welcome to speak up on his or her own.