Randomness.

[camwyn]

Yesterday, around 4:49 PM, my celphone recorded an incoming call. No voice mail, just 'hey, you got called'. I checked; the number was in the 204 area code.

204 is Manitoba.

I know where all my Canadian friends are. And unless one of them is currently travelling, I can safely say that none of them are in Manitoba. I don't remember applying for any jobs in Manitoba, either, although with monster.com these days you never know. Experimentally, I called the number back; I got a recording saying 'you may have received a call from our organisation regarding a product or service offering, if you wish one of our representatives to contact you leave your name and phone number and we'll reach you within 1-2 business days'. Uh, no, honey. Sorry. Tell me who you are first and I'll consider it.

I suppose it was just a wrong number, or they'd have left a VM... still. I get my wrong numbers from Manitoba. PH33R MY M4D C4N4D1AN G33K-PHU.

On an unrelated note, I have just discovered that a Cadbury creme egg bought the week after Easter and stored in an office closet, wrapped in quite a lot of drugstore bag but nothing else, tastes the same on 29 June as one bought and eaten two weeks before Easter.

Comments

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

We set up the no-call lists for our home phones to choke out the telemarketers, and now they try this.

All they need is a computerized caller, to dial the number, tickle your caller ID, and then hang up. It's probably generating the numbers it calls randomly, too, so a don't-call list is useless.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

I sometimes hear about telemarketing scams based in Canada defrauding people in the US, but rarely the other way around.

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

I may have been flying somewhere in the vicinity of Manitoba on my way back from Toronto, but I swear it wasn't me.