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Is this our future? No more public gatherings? All it takes is a phone call and an abandoned suitcase. They don't even have to blow themselves up any more.

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1. I learned there is a thing called a "friendly." Football is such a shared thing, you don't even have to say the noun. The adjective is enough.

2. Silly story -- I live in a small town that for years had only one prefix on the phone numbers. 385. Folks wouldn't even give the entire phone number. If your number was 385-1234, you'd just say 1234. The town grew, fax machines came into vogue, and they had to add a prefix 379 to handle the increased need for phone numbers.

But old habits die hard, yeah? I'm a 385-1234. The new assistant police chief got 379-1234. Guess who got his phone calls all the time? Because people were on autopilot when dialing?

Folks would leave a message on my answering machine and I would pass it on. After all, I knew his phone number.

My favorite message for a long time was this: "Hi Connor. This is Jim. Ted tells me you have the key to City Hall." Such a small town, I knew the occupations and last names of everyone named in that message. Still cracks me up.

My most favorite message, though, is the last one I ever got. "Connor, just wanted you to know that the bomb squad has been called. An abandoned suitcase has been found at the Post Office." Well! Talk about breaking news! I passed on the message, per usual.

There must have been bloody hell raised at the police station about such sensitive info being left on the wrong answering machine, because I never got another wrong number about official police business.

I love how stories build.

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All he needed was an answering machine (EEPROM) chip and a speaker and it could've popped the question (or played appropriate music, or buzzed like a reactor core).

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*nature *nsfw for cussing on the answer machine.

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Makes me curious though. There's a guy out there somewhere with the same last name as me, and I get calls constantly about him living at my address and owing student loans. I mean it's been going on for years, they threaten to send process servers on the answering machine. You tell them for the 50th time that this dude is not related to me, does not live with me, and I do not know him? "Sorry sir, there's nothing we can do, the process has already started."

I wonder if some day they'll show up to bust this guy at my address because he has obviously coerced a household full of people into taking him in, putting all his bills in their name, and convinced them to lie for him for years.

And this could very well be over "student loans" how often do you hear of people using student loans to buy cars? If you had someone who was applying for student loans and used the money for other things and lied on their forms to get it....it would be embezzlement, etc but it would still involve student loans.

I know full well they can't be told anything that would make them look elsewhere or give you information into how to convince them to look elsewhere and leave you the fuck alone. So this guy was actually married to the person in question, makes his case weaker...so they broke his door down. In my case Im sure I'll get a decade of calls threatening me.

Are those sifters I hear on the answering machine?