Ok maybe not officially but I was on the inside even if by voice!
Today I received a random call from a Texas number. I rarely answer calls if I don't recognize the number and NEVER call back if they don't leave a message. However since I am a business owner in a big city of people from all over the country with many different numbers I am working on answering when the phone rings, it may be a potential muse.
I digress...
So today, I mean yesterday as its Sunday at 2:30am, I got this call from a Texas number as I said above. I went ahead and answered only to hear an operator inform me that the Carson City Correctional Facility was trying to connect me with an Inmate. I could barely understand the name recorded so I hung up. Yes, the thought did cross my mind that my brother had made the "facility" his home again for a weekend as he has done once before but he at least has clear grammar. I mean mother did not raise idiots in english. *on a side note yes I have a sibling who has tried the "facility" before to see if he wanted to live there and he decided against it, too hard of beds and the concierge sucks ;-)
So once I hung up I then had this horrid thought that the poor chap who was calling dialed wrong and I was his only call and I could have relayed his message or at least told him it was the wrong number which would then allow him the chance to correct his miss call and dial correctly. Not two-seconds later "Carson Inmate" via Texas called back. I answered, found out that my phone is not set up to pay and receive collect calls from that "facility," (didn't now I needed to have my number frisked and read rights in order to take calls from the "facilities") however the operator did tell me I could have this first call free but would then be given the chance to set up future payment options. Yeah I don't plan on making this a routine phone session, unless 'Inmate Portrait Sessions' somehow becomes a new biz for me.
Anyway I got the man on the phone who needs to learn to speak and enunciate clearly, I have no idea who he was in the end, and informed him that I have had that phone number for the past 9 years and he probably dialed wrong. He sounded bummed but I am sure he saw the error in his dialing and was hopefully granted another phone call to reach the intended party.
This is just one of the many random things I have been recipient to on my phone this week. In the last week I have received scam text messages telling me that I have a free gift card if I act now and respond, and now the "facility" call. Seriously people, I have been the owner of my telly number for 9 years, 9 years (I am holding 9 fingers up to simulate even though you the reader can't see me). I could understand if this was a reused number but I am the originator. I just wish the wrong calls were more exciting...
-Gawdun
2 comments:
I thought your "facility" phone call was exciting. Not quite to the extent of the same meaning as on Megamind, but still, nonetheless it was unexpected and interesting to say the least. I bet the next time you get a random call, it really will be Megamind exciting. ;)
I received a similar call from someone who was in the facility in Minnesota.....I think, it has been a couple years since the call. I don't remember being issued rights and instructions before talking the individual.
The guy that called couldn't remember his friend's phone number exactly and just dialed what he thought it was, and certainly didn't get who he wanted. He kept asking me if I knew his friend who lived in Cedar City and had a phone number similar to mine. I told him no, heard some colorful language on the other end, and ended the call.
Definitely one of the most interesting phone calls I've ever had.
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