Who would want to work for directory enquiries?
These records of calls to directory enquiries have been cropping up in a few places...
Caller: Can you give me the number of the Argoed Fish bar in Caerphilly please ?
Operators: Im sorry theres no number listed, is that the correct spelling ?
Caller: Well, it used to be called the Bargoed Fish bar but the B fell off.
Caller: I'm looking for the Woven knitwear company, can you help ?
Operators: Woven, are you sure ?
Caller: Yes, thats what it says on the label, Woven in Scotland.
Caller: I'd like a vegetarian surgeon please.
Operators: Vegetarian ?
Caller: Yes, my dogs ill.
Operators: What's the address ?
Caller: I don't know. It was dark when I went there.
Caller: I'd like the RSPCA please.
Operators: Where are you calling from ?
Caller: The living room.
Caller: The Water Board please.
Operators: Which department ?
Caller: Tap Water.
Operators: How are you spelling that?
Caller: With letters.
Caller: I'd like the number for a reverend in Cardiff please ?
Operators: Do you have his name ?
Caller: No but he has a Cocker Spaniel called Ben.
Caller: The Union of Shopkeepers and Alligators please.
Operators: You mean the Amalgamated Union of Shopkeepers ?
A man called the Operator making heavy breathing noises from a call box. He told the worried operator:
I haven't got a pen so Im steaming up the window to write the number on...
One of the most stupid:
Caller: Harold Bishop, Ramsey Street, Erinsborough, Australia please. .
Operators: Completely lost for words.........................
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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