Today someone called for Jack the Sane. I mentioned that the caller would have to hold on, as Jack was hiding in the attic. I mentioned that I heard him scampering up into the attic, and would have to go find him. I went up into the attic and found him. He scampered away and meowed. I mentioned this to the caller, and she figured out that Jack is a cat.
Told by the operator that she was looking for Jack my ass!
She would not tell me what the call was about, but it makes one wonder. You see, my phone is listed under my cat’s name.
oh that is wonderful. Somehow I don’t think I could get away with that for most of my pets… most people wouldn’t buy a name like “Sparky” or “Ding”
…Claude on the other hand… he might be the sort to get phone calls…
Years ago my mom had a cat named Pixel. One year Mom decided to be cute and sent flowers to my dad in Pixel’s name. (sorry, can’t remember the reasoning behind this) Mom used one of those big flower companies (1-800-Flowers or FTD) and they must have sold their customer list shortly after her order. For over a year Mom kept getting credit card offers in the mail and by phone for Pixel. Mom used to joke that Pixel received more junk mail than she did.
My x-wife and I had a cat when we were together. “It”'s (read: used to have jinglies) name was Spaaz. Our vet constantly referred to the cat by it’s name and our last name. I always found that amusing. Especially because we’d get mail from her addressed to Spaaz <last_name>.
They also sent him Christmas and Birthday cards. We had a cool vet. Wish my doctor was like that.
At the trifecta of radio stations I worked at, one of them was an AM talk station. The guys there were extremely strange, as people who talk for a living often are. But very funny, and very cool. Now every station is requred to run a certain number of PSAs or public service announcents. Some stations assign the job of picking out PSAs to one person, who is called the PSA director. This station didn’t have one, because no one was willing to do the skut work.
So one day, one of the guys gets a call asking for the PSA director’s name. Louie (the guy) is feeling a bit punchy, and gives him the name of the lead actor from Hogan’s Heros. Larry something, I think. Before long, all of the PSAs are being sent to the station in this guy’s name. Soon he’s getting more mail. The DJS thought this was a hoot, and talked about it on air all the time, opening “Larry’s Mailbag.” Then one day, Larry got a credit card offer. They were seriously considering getting Larry a credit card when someone mentioned that they didn’t have Larry’s social security number. So that ended that.
My sister and I share a house. The telephone is still listed to our father, who died many years ago. Often when a caller asks for him we request that they hold the line, then gently lay the phone down. After a while the connection is broken.
Jack’s gotten credit card offers too- as I’ve mentioned in another thread. He’s also gotten a sweepstakes offer. I haven’t called about that yet though.
Myself and my wife couldn’t decide who’s name we should we use for our email address so we used the cats name. I like it when we get cheesey “personalised” email addressed to the cat. Some times people who don’t know very well ask for my email address and asume it’s my last name.
Now I use it for a lot of stuff online including posting here. ;j