Phone Won't Stop Ringing? Here's What You Do

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Phone Won't Stop Ringing? Here's What You Do

Postby Deputy » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:58 pm

Leola Starling of Ribrock, Tenn., had a serious telephone problem. But unlike most people she did something about it.

The brand-new $10 million Ribrock Plaza Motel opened nearby and had acquired almost the same telephone number as Leola.

From the moment the motel opened, Leola was besieged by calls not for her. Since she had the same phone number for years, she felt that she had a case to persuade the motel management to change its number.

Naturally, the management refused claiming that it could not change its stationery.

The phone company was not helpful, either. A number was a number, and just because a customer was getting someone else's calls 24 hours a day didn't make it responsible. After her pleas fell on deaf ears, Leola decided to take matters into her own hands.

At 9 o'clock the phone rang. Someone from Memphis was calling the motel and asked for a room for the following Tuesday. Leola said, "No problem. How many nights?"

A few hours later Dallas checked in. A secretary wanted a suite with two bedrooms for a week. Emboldened, Leola said the Presidential Suite on the 10th floor was available for $600 a night. The secretary said that she would take it and asked if the hotel wanted a deposit. "No, that won't be necessary," Leola said. "We trust you."

The next day was a busy one for Leola. In the morning, she booked an electric appliance manufacturers' convention for Memorial Day weekend, a college prom and a reunion of the 82nd Airborne veterans from World War II.

She turned on her answering machine during lunchtime so that she could watch the O.J. Simpson trial, but her biggest challenge came in the afternoon when a mother called to book the ballroom for her daughter's wedding in June.

Leola assured the woman that it would be no problem and asked if she would be providing the flowers or did she want the hotel to take care of it. The mother said that she would prefer the hotel to handle the floral arrangements. Then the question of valet parking came up.

Once again Leola was helpful. "There's no charge for valet parking, but we always recommend that the client tips the drivers."

Within a few months, the Ribrock Plaza Motel was a disaster area.

People kept showing up for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and Sweet Sixteen parties and were all told there were no such events.

Leola had her final revenge when she read in the local paper that the motel might go bankrupt. Her phone rang, and an executive from Marriott said, "We're prepared to offer you $200,000 for the motel."

Leola replied. "We'll take it, but only if you change the telephone number."
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Re: Phone Won't Stop Ringing? Here's What You Do

Postby BFMF » Wed Apr 02, 2003 12:58 am

lol

I have some friends who once had a phone number that was only one digit different from a pizza resteraunt, and after getting tired of all the wrong numberss, they simply started taking fake orders ;D
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Re: Phone Won't Stop Ringing? Here's What You Do

Postby ozzy72 » Sat Apr 05, 2003 7:44 am

We used to have a telephone number that was 1 digit different from both the Chinese take-away and the local garden center. I used to stitch up the garden center people quite a lot with accepting orders for azalias etc.
Once I did answer in a Chinese accent and announce "Number One Chinese Kitchen, you want order?", and my dad said "sorry, dialed the wrong number" and hung up!
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Re: Phone Won't Stop Ringing? Here's What You Do

Postby Deputy » Sat Apr 05, 2003 11:00 pm

Ozz, you should have called him back, using that accent, and start saying "where I  from, we not like rude"


Thats what I would have done.

If he called back, I would have done the same thing, said the same words. . .

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Re: Phone Won't Stop Ringing? Here's What You Do

Postby Squeek » Mon Apr 07, 2003 5:18 pm

funny!!!!!!!
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