From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <0001HW.2EA991CB010C941A700007F8438F@news.supernews.com>,   
   WolfFan   wrote:   
   >On Oct 21, 2025, Dorothy J Heydt wrote   
   >(in article ):   
   >> [Hal Heydt]   
   >> I've developed a number of tactics that work to varying degrees.   
   >> Since the calls I get are on a household land (three adults and   
   >> teenager), I'll ask who they're trying to contact. If they come   
   >> up with a name, it's almost invariably pronounced wrong. I still   
   >> get calls for Dorothy, to which I reply that she ahsn't been at   
   >> this number for over three years.   
   >   
   >My mother still gets calls for my father, who’s been dead for the better   
   >part of a decade. She also gets snail mail ‘offers’ for various things.   
   >The most amusing have been the ‘final expense’ guys and the life   
   >insurance guys.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   Got a call wanting to talk to Dorothy today.  I gave my usual   
   answer.  Then he asked if I knew her, to which I replied,   
   "Intimately."  The implications seemed get by the caller.  He   
   that this was the only number they for her, at which point I   
   repeated that she hadn't been at the number for over three years,   
   and--no--I didn't have another number for her.   
      
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