Do you remember the days of landline phones and fax machines? I barely do, but in case you don’t know, fax machines make really loud and annoying noises which are especially horrible if the fax machine accidentally calls a phone. Those loud noises directly in your ear are worse than an alarm clock.

If you answered the phone and heard the loud sounds of a fax machine, would you hang up and forget about it, or would you do some digging to find out who was trying to send a fax to your phone number?

In this story, one person is in this situation and decides to do some digging. Let’s see how the story plays out.

Not a snowballs chance in a cat scanner

My phone rang one morning at 5 am (landline) and when I picked it up I got a fax squeal in my ear. (ow) .

I hung up – 5 minutes later it rang again.

Hung up, Third time was the charm and I left it off the hook and went back to sleep.

He wanted to know what the fax was all about.

Later when I got up, i looked at my call history and did a google search on the number. Turned out it was the fax for a private CT Scan clinic in Ontario.

I called them to find out why the hell they were trying to fax me at 5 am.

The rep that answered tried hard to understand but it was clear English was not her first language. Every time I said anything , she responded in a mix of broken English and Hindi while growing more and more confused.

I am NOT faulting her for her English. I only wish I spoke Hindi or any other language as well as our new Canadians speak English.

Then, the woman on the phone had an idea.

Finally she seemed to have an inspiration because

she said – boss?

I said , supervisor?

her – yes yes boss!

He finally found out what happened.

click – hold music- new lady who blessedly spoke clear English.

After explaining to her why I was calling and giving her my phone number, she did some digging and came back on the line VERY apologetic . Turns out they had a bunch of CT scan results to send to a certain doctors office for patients . Doctors number was identical to mine except their Area Code was 905 and mine is 902.

Yep. I was fax bombed because of a typo.

we laughed and she fixed it. Never got called again lmao.

I wonder when this story took place. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard anyone talk about landlines and fax machines.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This person shares a similar story with a different way of solving it.

Another person had an even more frustrating experience trying to explain what was happening to the person faxing their phone.

This person shares how they found out who was sending faxes to their phone.

This sounds really frustrating!

The supervisor saved the day!

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