hollings@cs.wisc.edu (Jeff Hollingsworth) (02/09/89)
When I came to Wisconsin to find housing, I also called the local telco from my hotel. Everything went fine until I was asked to give my daytime phone number. I had a number in 213-217, but was told that could not possibly be my number because ONLY area codes have a one as the second digit. Despite all attempts to explain that this had been my work number for over a year, she refused to enter it into the computer. Finally she agreed to process the order without a daytime number. However, the problems didn't end here. When I went to check out the hotel tried to charge me over $8.00 for my call to the phone company. The number was listed in the telephone book as "toll free". After a bit of complaining I was able to get the charge dropped from my bill. Jeff hollingsworth