This evening, I got a call from the same area code as my cell phone, 701, which is Minot, ND. Experience told me two things. One, it was a wrong number. Two, if I didn’t answer and let the caller know they’d reached the wrong number, the phone would ring a couple more times.

So I answered, “Hello?”
“I want to talk to Jimmy.”
“I’m sorry, but you have the wrong number.”
“I need to talk to Jimmy! What’s Jimmy’s number?!”
“I have no idea. This is a wrong number.”
“Oh, sorry I bothered you.”

After a few similar calls, methinks my number is a digit or two off from that of a favourite Minot pharmaceutical peddler!