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When the picture doesn't match the sound

When I was at work today, I received some weird messages on my answering machine at home. It should be understood that I usually get 1 or 2 messages a month (that's not a typo). When I got home, I had 7 (neither is that).

My first thought turned to panic: "Oh my god, someone is dead and they're trying to reach me". But wait, my family knows both my cell phone number and my work number. If it was something like that, they'd get in touch with me either one of those ways.

I won't hold you in suspense anymore:

Message 1: (lot of background noise... bar maybe?) "Kelly.... I need some help" (caller sounds very drunk but is calling me by name). "I couldn't get a hold of you tonight. Uhhh.... I'll try you later. Call me... please?"

Message 2: "Kelly..... I need that number call me at.... " (the rest of the message is indistinguishable, except for the caller saying 'bye').

Message 3: (I hear that same background noise) Hang up.

Message 4: (Caller sounds like he is talking to someone that's with him on his end of the phone) "... what's the number? I can't remember! (pause) I don't know. Okay, I'll talk to you later".

Message 5: (another hang up with background noise).

Message 6: (again, talking with someone on his end) "I don't know where he is... I've been trying to get a hold of him all night..." (ends with a long pause -- I think my answering machine cut him off after a certain amount of time not speaking).

Message 7: "Please stay on the line for an important message..." (blah, blah, blah...)

If it wasn't for that last message coming through, I could have star-69'd the caller and gotten the number. It freaked me out for a little while but I'm okay now. I watched some TV and got something to eat.

Non sequitur warning:

I must admit, I'm mildly entertained by other people's blogs... I hope they're entertained by mine. I also hope that in 10 years when I read back over these that I can remember these situations and I'm not saying to myself "gosh, I don't remember that at all".

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