Gordie's dreaming place

a week ago, i tried to call my housemate in brisbane, i dialed '1-617-38xx-xxxx'...as you all know, australia's phone code is 61, and 7 is queensland, and the rest is my home phone number, you may think, what's the '1'? well...i thought, and was told (ages ago), 1 is the international code, if you're calling an overseas number, u need to dial that first. so i did.

it was connected, but no-one picked up the phone, i waited, then a voice message came up, 'hi we're not home right now, please leave a message, thank you', in a very very american accent way...i thought,'ummmm...i dont think that was me...and i dont think we have left a message on our phone, we dont even have that voice message service...'

so i hung up...
i dialed again...the same message came up...

a few days later, i asked my mom how to call an overseas call(yea shame on me), she said ,'61-7-38xx-xxxx'....er......what happened to the '1'??? then who did i call that time????????
so i dialed again, like what mom said, and i sucessfully talked to my housemate for 2 hours with sore teeth...

the phone bill came today, it said i called a number in USA, as i remember, i didnt...so i looked at the number, '1-617-3xxx-xxx'....wahahaha, so i looked up the internet to see who's the lucky one...it's a guy named Pat in Massachusetts, USA...so glad he didnt pick up the phone! (P.S. it was a girl's voice in the voice message)

posted by Gloz @ 9:48 PM