The Calling

I can't exactly recall how or when I answered my 1st phone call.
However, I still remember some "unusual" phone calls which I've been receiving over the years.


*At that time, I had never received any wrong-number calls.

(Caller rang)
Andy: Hello.
Caller: Hello. Can speak to Mr X?
(Andy hang up the phone as there's no Mr X in the family)
(The same caller rang)
Andy: Hello.
Caller: Hello. Can speak to Mr X, please?
(Andy hang up the phone again)

Only after my mum asked why there'd been so many calls, did i tell her that the guy's calling the wrong number. Then she showed me how to "handle" such cases by answering the guy's next and last call attempt.


**I'd say that some of my dad's friends and relatives are quite different when it comes to making phone calls.

(Uncle A rings)
Andy: Hello.
Uncle A: Hello.
(silence)
Andy: Hello?
(ONLY THEN this uncle starts talking)

(Uncle Y rings)
Andy: Hello.
Uncle Y: Hello. Who's speaking?
Andy: Hello?
Uncle Y: Hello?
Andy: Hello?
(basically Andy just waits for Uncle Y to say that he'd like to talk to Daddy though he perfectly knows it)

So, in my case, sometimes I don't use voice recognition to recognise callers. As my siblings and I have been ridiculing those people for their "unique" calling styles since we're kids, we now recognise them from how the phone conversation starts.