“Someone’s faxing a phone number.”
“Oh no, that’s me!” I rushed over and asked, “Could you tell from the sound it made?”
“I heard someone try to answer it, so yes, technically, I could tell by the sound it made.”
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joeyfullystated 
LOL – I think anyone who has worked in an office has done that at some point. During office hours and catching it right away = no biggie.
But it brings back bad memories of a time when our home phone number somehow got on some company’s overnight auto-dial faxing list. We were regularly woken at 2 or 3 in the morning by the phone ringing. Took us weeks of harassing the phone company for them to look into it and advise the sender to get our number off their list.
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I occasionally invert them and call the fax number. SO LOUD. SO UNPLEASANT!
I’m sorry you had that for such a long time! It rarely happens now, hm?
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Hahaha! Memories.
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I’m not much of a fan of the old “Seinfeld” show, but there was an episode where Elaine got a fax machine and Kramer decided to have the menus from all these restaurants sent to her. She ended up with an answering machine full of fax noises, because she didn’t have the fax set up to answer.
Fax machines are an enormous pain in the ass… They practically demand you have a separate, dedicated land line, because those answering machines that are supposed to allow you to get calls and faxes never really work. You always end up getting an earful of “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” with them.
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Yeah, that’s not a good sound. Ever!
I remember that episode. I’m thankful my office has a dedicated line 🙂
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My life story in the early 2000’s
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I often take the other route, calling a business’s fax number instead of their phone number. I look forward to the day of no-more-fax.
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New faxing is so much better and faster than old faxing, but yeah, I prefer the ones that have email PDF acceptance. 🙂
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Whoa…. 😛 Poor joeys ❤
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Ah I know I recall why a FAX Machine has gone the way of the Mastodon. Of course I seem to remember someone asking me to FAX them something;recently.
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I fax every single day at work. A lot of places still use them. They’ve gotten better. I remember standing around waiting, only to be disappointed — it’s not like that now 🙂
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Happens to one of my co-workers every single day. Luckily, he is such a mild-mannered guy, his phone ringing never bothers him. What is wrong with him?! 😀
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LOL! Every day? Wow!
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his phone extension is a code we have to use to start the fax. Who in the heck thought of that??!!
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Oh mercy, I don’t know. We have a dedicated line, thank tacos.
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Been there, done that. And I love the fax meme…it’s a good groaner.
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Thanks 🙂
Isn’t it though? I thought it was so bad it was good! Or vice-versa!
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This was so funny! I cannot imagine anyone knowing what the fax would contain before reading it but this really made me laugh! You crack me up, Joey. (Or the other person who responded this way.)
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When you fax to a phone number instead of a fax line, people answer the phone and get an earful of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! So, that’s what I missed while I was away 🙂
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