Re: Just a short hop.
Another poor dear phoned up and accused me of stealing her phone number (two digits swapped), at least that explained all the home help and social services calls I had been getting..
Reminds me of the call I had at work shortly after we moved in and had a change of number.
Me: Good morning, tiny-corp
Caller: Hello? Is Mabel there?
Me: I'm afraid not, this is a business number you've come through to.
Caller: Are you sure?
Um. Yes. Quite.
We then got a call from the Police telling us to stop cold-calling the elderly with aggressive sales tactics. as we were a small B2B that provided a specialist service to large (Fortune 500) type companies. We suggested they speak to BT about what bunch of pirates was assigned this number previously...