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Ghost
Answers the Phone
by Mary B.
I have never been a believer in ghosts, but after what happened to me about a year ago, I can't help but reconsider my position on this. I am a telephone sales representative and at the time of this occurrence I was marketing a phone service. Here is what happened to me about a year ago at work.
On Thursday, April 26th I made a sales call to Pennsylvania. It started just like any other call. Yes, I need to speak to Mr.. or Mrs. B_____ The woman identified herself as Mrs. B_____ and I continued on with the normal sales call. She seemed very interested and asked a lot of questions, but when I came to the decision making part, she quickly stopped me insisting that I had to talk to her husband. Her objections were the same every time I attempted to close, She explained that she had tried to get him to change phone carriers before but in her words, "he was married to AT&T and refused to make any changes."
She also quickly pointed out that since his retirement he spent a great deal of time fishing and was not easy to get in touch with and it would be best to try early in the morning, before he left for his favorite hobby. She also indicated that their long distance bills were getting out of hand because he made lengthy calls to North Carolina and felt that the plan would be beneficial to them. On that note I decided that perhaps this was worth a call back and told her that I would call her husband the next day.
The next day I made a call that I will probably never forget the rest of my life! On the call back, the husband did answer the phone. I introduced myself in the normal fashion and explained that I had been talking to his wife the previous day and she had suggested that I speak to him. You can imagine the shock and horror, when he distraughtly stated to me, "Lady, I don’t know who you were talking to, but my wife just died and I am not in any mood to speak to anyone!" With that he quickly hung up the phone.
In a way I was thankful that he did hang up the phone because I honestly don’t know what transition one would use in this case. On the other hand, I would have loved to ask him if he did indeed love to go fishing and if he made lengthy calls to North Carolina – call it morbid curiosity!
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