My youngest Caller.

[Horsetuna]

This is a story that i still find amusing, and kind of cute.

IT was a slow day at the Day Glo orange Apron when....

*greengreengreen*

Me: Good morning, Day Glo Orange Apron, Anne speaking!
Phone: Silence
Me: Hello?
Very young boy's voice (6?): hi.
Me*thinking the parents were just letting him use the phone to make a call to us* :Hi! Can I help you?
Phone: silence
Me: Hello? What can I do for you?
Boy: I want to go to Sammy's house.
Me: sorry hon, I cant help you there.
Phone: silence
Me: Where's your parents? Your mommy and daddy?
Boy: I dont know.
Me: Is there an adult home?
Then I heard an adult voice in the background (Not angry, dont worry), and the phone was hung up.

[Soulstealer]

Aww that's so cute. Maybe he just learnt how to use a phone.

[lordlundar]

Aww that's so cute. Maybe he just learnt how to use a phone.

Beats accidentally phoning China.

[Becks]

Beats accidentally phoning China.

Or purposely calling Australia.

[draggar]

Cute story.

Aww that's so cute. Maybe he just learnt how to use a phone.

My sister teaches elementary school children and one lesson she has is she uses old cell phone dummies (fake phones) and teaches them how to dial 911, when to dial it, and what to say / do.

Unfortunately, the first few years she did it she would get a call from the local dispatch supervisor.

"Did you just do your 911 lesson again"
"Yes, why?"
"Your students have been praticing".

So now she warns the local dispatch before she does the lesson so they can anticipate elementary school children calling (and they know to call back first if it's a hang up).

[draggar]

Or purposely calling Australia.

Quick! Flush the toilet! Which way is it swirling!!

[BookstoreEscapee]

Cute story.




"Did you just do your 911 lesson again"
"Yes, why?"
"Your students have been praticing".
).

Sounds like she needs a little more emphasis on the when to call part!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

My kid accidently called CarMax a couple weeks ago. I think she must've hit redial.

She got a woman on the other end and kept saying "Nonni?" (she apparently wanted to talk to my mother.) The lady was very nice!

After that, we called my mom and put my daughter on.

[wizzie1967]

When I was doing tech support for an ISP I received a call from a wee girl, about 5-6.
ME: Hi there, how can I help?
HER: Are you the man of the Internet?
ME: Yes I am.
HER: Do you know Santa's email address?

Well guess what I was good at my job but I was unable to answer that question!!

[reformedwaitress]

HER: Do you know Santa's email address?

Kind of off topic, but something like this is how NORAD started doing the "tracking Santa" and the Santa radar. Apparently sometime in the 50s (I think 55) Sears and Roebuck did a "call Santa" hotline. And published the number wrong. So the government agency that was NORAD before NORAD was formed (CONAD, I think) got ALL these calls on Christmas Eve from kids wanting to talk to Santa. So the guys on shift started telling the kids that Santa was delivering packages and updating the children as to his "status". And when NORAD was formed a few years later, they inherited the tradition.

And that's, apparently, how the NORAD Santa tracking originally started.

<back to your regularly scheduled programing>

[AnaKhouri]

I have a slightly related story that makes me feel bad even as I type it...

I hate it when I answer the phone and the person on the other end says, "Who is this?" Well, you're calling me. Who are you? To crush these rude callers, I answer, in an icy tone, "To whom do you wish to speak?" (nothing destroys people like proper grammar!)

Last week my cellphone rang with an unfamiliar number. I picked it up.

Me: Hello?
Caller: Who is this?
Me (icy): To whom do you wish to speak?
Caller (in a very small voice): I want to talk to my Grammy.
Me: Oh my God, honey, I'm so sorry. You have the wrong number.

I guess I wasn't really paying attention or I would have realized it was a child's voice right off!

[lordlundar]

Well guess what I was good at my job but I was unable to answer that question!!

sclaus@northpole.ca if I remember right.

[JustADude]

sclaus@northpole.ca if I remember right.

Beat me to it, Lundar!

[lordlundar]

Ahh, but I'm not joking. Every year around October or November, Canada post sets up an address for Santa Claus which gets advertised on the Canadian networks. They did implement an email for him as well when it became popular.

For the record, the snail-mail address is:

Santa Claus
North Pole, H0H 0H0
Canada

[Ree]

Actually:

santa@santaclaus.com

and for the Spanish speakers:

papanoel@santaclaus.com

and for the French speakers:

perenoel@santaclaus.com