Trent, Stop Calling Me

Ever since I got my T-moblie phone I’ve been a pretty happy camper. I don’t ask much of it and it doesn’t ask much of me. However, since the day I’ve had the phone, I’ve been called by a mysterious phone number. The random call is a local number and the first time it rang, I picked up and noticed that my phone then dialed a new number and then connected and then hung up. Now folks, I’m paranoid enough as it is but this kinda stuff freaks me out good. The same phone number called back a few times and I answered – always the same routine: phone dials a number, connects, then hangs up. So like any rational consumer, I immediately figured it as a T-mobile scam. I figured they were charging me for every-time I answered the call. Over time my theory developed into quite a complicated one where T-mobile had thousands of these numbers that called random people all the time. Most people like myself just shrugged it off as a wrong number or something. Meanwhile, in the background, T-mobile was slowly amassing millions.

In the beginning this number only called about once or twice a week and never left a message so I just adapted and ignored the number whenever it came up on the screen. I had outfoxed T-mobile.

Now, however, things have gotten out of hand.

The same number calls me on average of of 10 – 12 times a day. Sometimes it will call five or six times in a row. Finally today I used my land line to call the number back. I fully expected to get the same hang up response that my mobile always got before or something worse like an odd sounding voice that reeked of COINTELPRO.

So, I was stunned when I got some guy named Trent’s voice mail: “This is Trent, I’m not in right now, leave a message”.

And i did:

Ahh. . .Trent. . .Yeah. . .like. . .so your phone keeps calling me like several hundred times a week. Umm. . .Like, what the fuck dude? I think something’s up with your phone. For real dude – you need to like. . . make it fucking stop, or something, cause I’m trying to get some work done over here and your endless mystery calls are REALLY FUCKING HARSHING MY MELLOW!!!. Make it stop – please!

I haven’t heard back from Trent yet.