It might be important. Perhaps a member of the family with a new number, or even a headhunter with a job for you. Yes – you have to do the redial and find out.
What about the person on the receiving end of such a redial? Plenty of room for mischief here.
You – “Dial back the number”
They – “Hello”You – “I am returning your call”
They – “Who’s that?”You – “Who’s that?”
They – “I asked “Who’s that?””You – “Did you call me earlier?”
They – “I don’t know – who are you?”You – “You called me. You must know”
They – “I call lots of people”You – “So did you call this number?”
They – “I don’t know. It depends who you are.”You – “I’m the person you called earlier, but I wasn’t in”
They – “Do you have a name?”You – “This is George Bloggs” (Grumpy - Now we are getting somewhere)
They – “I don’t know a George Bloggs”You – “Well, you called this number”
They – “It might have been a wrong number?”You – “Was it a wrong number?”
They – “It depends on who was using the phone”You – “How many people use this phone?”
They – “Is that important?”
You – “Well. Please don’t waste my time or money again”
They – “You called me. You didn’t have to.”You – “It might have been important”
They – “Why did you think this if you didn’t recognise the number? Do you often receive important calls from people you do not know?”You – “But what would happen if the call was important”
They – “In that case, I would have called you back.”You – “Anyway, who are you?”
BACK TO THE BEGINNING Etc.
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Please feel free to add to this immature dialogue. I am sure that it can be improved.
The aim here for the “They” is to keep the call going as long as possible, while being patronising and annoying.
I do enjoy answering these calls. And “No”, I do not call back unrecognised numbers, except to landlines via Skype, which are free for us and can fill an idle moments without cost.
i enjoyed reading that xx
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