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Posted Jun 14, 2004 by Jane Austin
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 | | The vicar announced from his pulpit that he had an amazing telephone, which recorded the number which had dialed his phone, therefore announcing the said number to his congregation, ah, at last there was a possibility to trace the poor sad soul who had been making anonymous phone calls to a selected few in the congregation, obviously including the vicar himself!!!
Upon this news, the whole congregation rushed home to their guia telefonicas to try and discover the culprit, several even sadder souls with nothing better to do with their time, even found the name and the address of the 82 year old, who was supposedly making the phone calls, ah, but who knows, perhaps someone else had made the calls from the poor old dear,s house, could be, nothing is certain.
You see, here in Tenerife the first two numbers of your telephone tells you which village you are calling from, and, to try and find an english surname amongst a multitude of spanish ones is not so difficult.
Poor soul, anyone feeling the need to make anonymous phone calls must feel very hard done by, or have some enormous problem, and the last thing the person needs is being discovered and made public, especially if they are elderly, where is Christian compassion in this story?
I feel very sad that this person is now a symbol of laughter and ridicule, he or she made a mistake, it,s true, yet felt aggrieved and bitter enough to go to such lengths, no-one amongst the church cared enough to find out why the person felt they had to take such an option.
Lonelyness and rejection drives us all to make wrong decisions at some point in our lives.
Jane
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| | | Subject: funny phone calls
Posted Jun 15, 2004 by Researcher 220722
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 | | It was not only 'unChristian' but also very irresponsible and unprofessional of the vicar to announce this telephone number so publicly. Surely he could have looked up the number himself to find out who the caller was. Otherwise, simply by calling Telefónica and informing them of the situation, especially once he had the number, would have been a much better way of handling the situation, imo.
After all, the issue was about having the phone calls stopped. Or am I wrong and the real issue was letting the congregation, including the vicar, enjoy their petty revenge on this person?
az
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