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   REPLY: 8.fidonet_englisht@1:104/116 2492f05a   
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   Hi, Brian!  Recently you wrote in a message to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   BK>  First, colleagues not colleges.   
      
      
                Thank you.  Many hands make light work....  :-)   
      
      
      
   BK>  At my former employer, I would be up at 1 or 2am to take   
   BK>  conference calls with my German colleagues.  They'd wonder   
   BK>  why I would yawn on the calls.  When I reminded them of   
   BK>  the time, they'd profusely apologize.   
      
      
                For many years Dallas & I received telephone calls from Florida   
   at 5:00 AM asking e.g. "What would you like me to do with this load of   
   rutabagas?" I'll leave it to the reader to imagine what some people might have   
   told them to do, but we answered the question with another question... do you   
   realize you're calling somebody's home in Vancouver BC & it's 5:00 AM here?    
   The truck drivers who made the calls apologized profusely when they understood   
   what was going on. It seemed there was an error in the directory a lot of them   
   were using....  :-)   
      
      
      
   BK>  Sadly, when I'd make calls convenient to me, they were   
   BK>  all home and getting ready for bed.  Oh, well, life goes   
   BK>  on.   
      
      
                Uh-huh.  The situation I alluded to did clear up after awhile...   
   I guess because the word got around &/or because the error was emended in a   
   later version of the directory.  Now that our aged relatives in the UK have   
   passed on we also keep the ringer volume turned down when we're sleeping,   
   however.  Those who are still alive use e-mail when they have something   
   important to say.  :-))   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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