Tim Auton said:
Surely that /is/ calling someone with Caller ID.
I had a long-winded reply about how I had had a phone installed in a new
house and the technician left without telling me what the number is, so I
just called my cellphone to get the number, then called back from the cell
phone to confirm it, and how it was a free transaction because I didn't
answer either call, and how I was thinking the whole time that I didn't
really need the land line any more, but that our guests might, so we went
ahead and installed it (I'm still not decided whether to discuss the fact
that the new service is "wired" with fiber optic cable to the transition
box, so we could have 4 line, cable tv and broadband internet even though we
only want a single POTS line and we already have a separate cable
tv/internet service connected, and I certainly wouldn't go into how the
phone died after about a week (the technician hooked up the power supply
wrong and the battery eventually gave out)) but it was too hot to type that
much so I just shortened it down to the essential meat.
