Can somebody explain why, about twice a week, I get a phone call from a mysterious artificial voice who, once I’ve picked up the phone, says in all it’s synthetic sincerity:
"I’m sorry, I seem to have reached this number in error".
Creepy!
Is this maybe a telemarketing outfit’s computer randomly picking numbers and confirming they lead somwhere? Perhaps a fancy fax machine that apologizes when it doesn’t hear the appropriate connection squeal? Malevolent extraterrestrials confirming that I’m home and out of reach of my protective Titanium Crowbar™?
Hawking! I should have known it was that vindictive little jellyfish!
The little creep is always doing stuff to irritate me – collapsing waveforms in my cupboards, sneaking event horizons in my garage (no two bloody clocks in my house agree with one another) and ringing my doorbell and rolling away before I can answer them.
Seriously, do you have caller id? You could do a reverse lookup on the number, or just call it. Or perhaps if the weird message was the most recent call you received, you can *69 to call it back (beware: if you don’t subscribe, you phone company may charge you $0.75 or more for this feature)
probably cos the caller was poving at trans-light speed and, therefore, out of range by conventional sub-light speed scanners used by your local phone company. Petition the phone company to upgrade to trans-light speed scanners.
