05-12-2008, 11:10 PM
No.. they don't.
My parents had a number that was two "flipped" digits from being the number for Cal-Trans Road Conditions hotline.
One winter, the local news-droids flipped the digits around, and gave out my parents phone number.
The answering machine message was very unequivocal, "This is NOT, I repeat, NOT The Cal Trans Road Conditions Number... that number was given in ERROR. The Channel 3 News was WRONG! The correct number is "xxx-xxxx". If you have a messgge for the F. Family, please leave it".
47, yes, Fourty Seven, people left MESSAGES asking "Cal Trans" to call them back with Road Conditions information.
I was a teenager at the time, and REALLY wanted to call each and every one of them back and tell them about the HUGE snowstorms and landslides that had killed thousands, and sealed off the area from the rest of the world... councel them to stockpile food, ammunition, and medical supplies.. it would be MONTHS before the roads would be open..
My mom was a spoiled sport and erased the messages before I could get any of them down.
Where was I?
Oh yes.... People are stupid.
No, they don't listen.
My parents had a number that was two "flipped" digits from being the number for Cal-Trans Road Conditions hotline.
One winter, the local news-droids flipped the digits around, and gave out my parents phone number.
The answering machine message was very unequivocal, "This is NOT, I repeat, NOT The Cal Trans Road Conditions Number... that number was given in ERROR. The Channel 3 News was WRONG! The correct number is "xxx-xxxx". If you have a messgge for the F. Family, please leave it".
47, yes, Fourty Seven, people left MESSAGES asking "Cal Trans" to call them back with Road Conditions information.
I was a teenager at the time, and REALLY wanted to call each and every one of them back and tell them about the HUGE snowstorms and landslides that had killed thousands, and sealed off the area from the rest of the world... councel them to stockpile food, ammunition, and medical supplies.. it would be MONTHS before the roads would be open..
My mom was a spoiled sport and erased the messages before I could get any of them down.
Where was I?
Oh yes.... People are stupid.
No, they don't listen.