I have caller ID and an answering machine, so I screen my calls. If I don't recognize the name/number I let it go to the recorder. For about the last year instead of leaving a message, the caller can somehow open my phone line. What's on my machine is "If you want to make a call, please hang up and try again"; and if I'm home while this is happening, the green "line in use" light is on.

I am hereby calling out two groups that I've busted doing this: the Police Benevolent Association and the Alzheimer's Association.

Have any of you folks had this happen?