Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Funny Story

At my job, we work very closely with many other federal agencies. One department in particular is Medicare Assignment of Benefits, which is a phone number that I give out at least once a week.
Not so long ago, I got a call from a little old lady who seemed genuinely distraught and totally confused. When I asked her what was wrong, she replied, "Well honey, I tried the number that you gave me for Medicare, and I just hear this person breathing really heavily into the phone. I think something must be wrong with them." The lady was truly concerned for the health of the person who answered the Medicare line.
I didn't think too much of it, until I got a second call a few weeks later from a man who was verifying the number I gave him. "I must have written the number down wrong, because that was a porn site that I just called," the man said to me.
I panicked. Had I been giving out a porn number to the elderly population of Brazoria County? I tried the telephone number, only to hear loud and heavy breathing in the background and the music playing: "bow chicka bow wow." Never have I slammed a phone down so quickly.
Yep. I had done it. I had gotten the Medicare phone number wrong and inadvertently given out a pornographic telephone number to dozens of old people...
Leave it to Courtney.

8 Comments:

At 11:46 AM, Blogger berly02 said...

Well, that is one way to support the adult entertainment industy.

 
At 11:55 AM, Blogger Courtney O. said...

And to give heart attacks to the elderly all at once...
Needless to say, I changed my rolodex ASAP.

 
At 12:16 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

CLASSIC!

 
At 3:38 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is fucking awesome! You should keep giving it out.

 
At 4:11 PM, Blogger Lindsey said...

1-877-567-7271

That is the Medicare line you dork! (at least one of them...I deal with insurance day in and day out.)

I wonder how many heart attacks you gave?

 
At 5:10 AM, Blogger Thomas J Wolfenden said...

"We're from the Federal Government, and we're here to help!"

Big oxymoron if you ask me!

Only joking...

Nobody's perfect, shit happens.

 
At 10:48 AM, Blogger Drywall Mom said...

Well at least you will get a laugh out of it and your office will never let that one down. That's classic.

 
At 12:47 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

That may be the best thing I have ever heard. What's that number?

 

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