Quote Originally Posted by Sirrahsim
LOL!! Maybe I should say that to all of the people who keep calling for the old owners of our telephone numbers.
Our phone number was once used by Porter Cable; Rockwell; et all for one of their local power tool repair sites. Every time the season changes, we start with a new round of phone calls from folks needing parts, blades, repair sevices. The old tools came with a list of repair places, listed by state, in the back of the Owner's Manual.

Since these are the "older" tools (the new ones give the toll free 800 number) the calls tend to be from older men. I felt so badly for them, I got the toll free number from an owner's manual in an open box at Home Depot. Keep it by the phone and Dad and I give it out regularly. We also ask them to PLEASE line out our number!

If I had understood what was happening when we first got the phone number, I would have ask the phone company for a new number right away; I mean, I am paying for unpublished, and here my number is in most homes in the US!