I returned from several weeks travelling to find a series of puzzling voicemail messages on my mobile phone. The people leaving messages often sounded confused and tentative, with several referring to rescuing cats. Huh? I assumed there was a miscommunication somewhere and my phone number had been given out in error - there were too many to just be a simple mistake.
After finally speaking with one person who rang me whilst at work, I found out my phone number had been in last week’s Frankston Leader newspaper. I rang the folks at the Frankston Leader to find out whether it was a one-off article or an ongoing advertisement and found it was the former, so I expect the number of people contacting me to drop rapidly next week.
So far this week, I’ve had to respond to 8 phone calls and 1 text message seeking further information about rescuing cats. Given there are a number of stray cats in my area, it’s tempting to catch them and mail them to Frankston to solve two problems at once…*grin*
SPOTD definitely goes to the person in the article who provided the incorrect phone number.