February 23, 2008
Listen Up
We’ve got some crossed signal around here and I’m getting very frustrated with it. My mom has had the same land line phone number forever. Or longer. I’ve had my cell phone number for over 10 years. That’s a long time, too. Any time my mom has needed to call me from her land line to my cell phone, she dials the 7-digit number and gets through just fine. That all changed about a wee or so ago.
Each time my mom called me last week, she got a guy in the neighboring state. Granted, the neighboring state is just across a river from us and is a local call, but still. What the heck happened all of a sudden to cause this? She was able to call me using the area code but my mom was worried that meant it was a long distance call. Now she’ll only call me from her cell phone.
I did call my cell phone carrier, Alltel, to ask about the problem and they assured me they would check the cell phone signal and how they’re communicating with Verizon in that area. We’ll see where that goes. My mom is supposed to call Verizon but in the past, Verizon isn’t the easiest company to get help on such matters. I’d rather start with Alltel and contact Verizon only as a last resort.
Anyway, isn’t that an odd problem, especially when it had never been an issue previously? Yeah, I thought so too.
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Maybe it’s that new thing about wanting to add another area code because 304 is almost full. The initial idea was to dump the new code on all of us here up north while leaving the Charleston people alone — and then they were talking about making all new numbers statewide take the new code. That, of course, means everybody has to dial 10 digits every time, even for local calls.
The wheels of government grind slowly — except when it screws us all up. Or it could be something else entirely….