Good Thing I Have a Fax Machine

[kevin_standlee]

The multi-function printer/copier/fax machine we have here at home is rarely used to receive faxes. In fact, I don't remember ever doing so. But this morning, I started getting phone calls from a fax machine. I hung up on the first one, assuming it was one of the random-number fax machine callers attempting to spam. But it called back a few minutes later. And again. Seeing that it might have taken many tries before it gave up, I turned the printer on and the answering machine off and let the next incoming call trigger the fax machine. Turned out to be a medical bill for someone (not me) addressed to the wrong fax number. Fortunately, it had a voice phone number, so I called and left a message telling them they had the fax number wrong. A few minutes ago, I got a call from the company sending the bill apologizing for having got the number wrong. I shredded the mis-addressed bill, of course; it's none of my business.

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[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

Years ago I ended up buying a fax machine just to catch all of the junk faxes that were being sent to my home phone. The previous owner of that number had been a business who'd had it as their fax line. This also resulted in never answering that phone until after the fax or answering machine had a crack.

On another occasion, I opened my mail to find something from a large clinic I had been going to, only to find a prescription for a different Ronald Oakes -- I'm suspecting, years later, a retired hockey announcer who worked in San Diego (this was 11 years ago, the last time I lived here).

So I'm a "been near there/done something like that"