The plot thickens
3Oct2006 Filed under: JournalishI just received a phone call from a young woman wanting to know if I was hiring. When I asked her where she found my number, she said, “in the phone book under escort services.” This leads me to believe that I have officially been punked. Either that, or this is the most divine comedy of errors EVAR.
And so now my voicemail informs callers that if they’re looking for an escort, I offer no such services. My freelance clients are going to love that!
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Playapixie
October 3rd, 2006 at 10:04 pm
That’s hilarious. I can’t wait to see where this is going…
Nani
October 4th, 2006 at 2:37 am
Did you look yourself up in the phone book? What did it say?
Ariel
October 4th, 2006 at 8:14 am
I immediately recycled our phonebook without even taking it out of the bag because I have the internet — who needs the yellow pages? Therefore, I can’t check the paper version, and when I check the online yellow pages, I see nothing under my biz name or my phone number, and my number/biz name doesn’t appear to be listed with escort services.
leandra
October 4th, 2006 at 9:07 am
hmmmm.
sounds like someone is playing a joke on you?
you’re right there is nothing in qwestdex and i also looked in the hard copy yellow pages under ‘escort’ and in the white pages under ‘electrolicious’. you’re not listed in either.
Esther
October 4th, 2006 at 9:15 am
I’m also wondering - have you ever received those crappy knockoff phone books that don’t have any useful numbers and seem to be more about advertisement (and wasting trees) than actual content, and look to be put together even more incompetently than your average qwest product? Maybe some person trying to put filler in one of those stuck your number in there. Maybe your phone number was linked with your domain name in marketing stuff they got from a previous isp host or something?
amy.leblanc
October 4th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
hil.ARIOUS.
i say start playing along, take notes, and then write a new book. or at least start a new blog with the most interesting transactions.
Damien
October 5th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I’m pretty sure it’s a joke. If I was calling a business in the phone book, I’d probably try to make sure I was calling the right place (especially if they answered the phone, “Hello”) before I starting asking for a job.
You could ask them the edition or page number of the phone book they were looking at. Or what your business is supposedly called.
That said, it does seem like it would be much more fun to just play along with any subsequent callers. You could start out by saying YES of course we’re ALWAYS looking for new talent, then start asking for their personal details and specific skillsets. “How do you feel about furries/watersports/gags?” “Would you be comfortable receiving a Dirty Sanchez? ” etc etc.
Sarah
October 5th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
nooooo waaaaaaay! keep us posted - I can’t wait to hear where this is going either.