Bad Manners and Brimstone

I have returned erroneous voicemails twice. The first was from a woman, who rightfully so, left a very angry message about a lawn care company basically ruining their yard. They'd used the wrong chemicals or something and essentially turned the grass brown. I checked the lawn care company's phone number and sure enough, the last two digits were the same as ours but flipped (12 instead of 21). I called her back. She was very polite and apologized to me profusely for her "mini-rage".

The second time was after DD (14) got her first cell phone. She had had about a month when she told me a number kept calling her every day at the same time. I took her phone with me to work to wait for the call (she was 12 when she got it and it stayed home during school hours). It was a debt collector. They had started collections against the former owner of the number a month prior. He said it was very common for people to ditch their old numbers for new ones when the process began. He removed DD's number from the system.