For the past couple of weeks we have been settling into our beautiful new home. I really can't adequately describe just how much we love it. But as is the tradition in our lives, something kind of funny has happened.
Well, with the new house we decided to get a new phone number. Little did we know we were getting a "recycled number". Here's where things start to get funny.
Over the past few days I have noticed on the caller ID that we have been getting several phone calls from "Unknown" numbers and even one call from Mexico. I found this quite odd considering no one yet knows our new number. As part of our service, we got voicemail with our new phone. I hadn't yet configured it, so I called up the number and did that last night. When our voicemail picked up though, there was already a greeting message on it. Apparently a company called "Intimate Sensations" previously used this number. Interesting.
So I go ahead and change the greeting, pass code and set everything up to reflect The Boudreaus. Easy enough.
Then came this morning. We were having some furniture delivered so I worked from home this morning.
: : ring, ring : :
Me: "Hello?"I hung up at this point. She didn't call back.Strange lady: (very serious tone) "Is this Intimate Sensations?"
Me: "No."
Strange lady: (still quite serious) "Is this phone number xxx-xxx-xxxx?"
Me: "I'm not sure, I just got this phone number and can't remember. Let me check, I've got it written down right here."
Strange lady: (almost desperate) "Is this Intimate Sensations? I'm looking for Intimate Sensations"
Me: "I can't really help you with that. Can you give me that phone number again?"
Strange lady: (in a VERY hostile tone) "Is there someone more responsible there I can talk to about Intimate Sensations? Let me speak with your manager!!!"
Me: (in an even MORE hostile tone) "THIS IS MY HOME!"
I have no doubt that more phone calls like this will be coming for a little while. I wonder what kind of business Intimate Sensations is? Maybe I'll ask.
Anyway...
Stay tuned as Shelley and I will be hosting a housewarming party of some kind in the coming weeks. We would love to have many of you local, non-criminal Dallas readers over. We can't guarantee intimate sensations, but I think good times will still be had by all.
landlines are so dead to me.
Funny enough, when I call my Intimate Sensations provider, I use a falsetto voice so I won't be recognized.
Funny. :)
Hee hee...
I think the housewarming party should have an "Intimate Sensations" sort of theme. We could all dress up as disgruntled middle aged women with a little too much make up on and bring boxes of wine! ;)
nothing like a fine box of wine.
I'd love to experience the sensation of warming your intimate home...i'll bring wine if that is what you require.
That's awesome! I thought having a recycled fax and then a cash register repair number was bad, but I think you've got us beat!
Steve, I too got a recycled number at my new home. Honestly the only 2 reasons I got a land line is because I need one for hte house alarm and because I'd rather get spammed on that, than on my cell phone. Thankfully, since I never put my cell on any order forms or anything, I only get calls from people I know.
Fortunately, I don't have any calls for anything as interesting as intimate sensations, but I do get calls for a lot of "De La Cruz" people that seem to owe money. Oh well, I hope all those times I tell them it's the wrong number deletes my number from their databases, so far it seems to have been working little by little.
Good Luck
Why you got to go and exclude me like that?
On the phone calls, you should blog them. That would make for entertaining reading.