SC: “I’ve called 411 three times now and they keep giving me this number. I know it’s the wrong number but do you have the right number?”
No, no I do not have the right number. Why would you even think I had the right number? You’re fully aware this is the wrong number. Thus you are aware that I am nowhere near the right number, not related to the right number and there is no expectation or even chance that I would know anything about the right number. Yet, either from the port of desperation or abject stupidity, you have launched forth your rickety bamboo inquiry into Hurricane Common Sense in the hopes that maybe, MAYBE it would somehow survive and wash up on the shores of the new world.
No, no I do not have the right number. Why would you even think I had the right number? You’re fully aware this is the wrong number. Thus you are aware that I am nowhere near the right number, not related to the right number and there is no expectation or even chance that I would know anything about the right number. Yet, either from the port of desperation or abject stupidity, you have launched forth your rickety bamboo inquiry into Hurricane Common Sense in the hopes that maybe, MAYBE it would somehow survive and wash up on the shores of the new world.
Librarian: Hi, this is reference, how can I help you?
Poor sap: Yeah, your the library by the school?
Librarian: No, we are downtown.
Poor sap: But 411 gave us your number!
Librarian: 411 does that. They won't look up numbers for individual libraries, they give people our number all the time. But I know the number of the library you are talking about. It's....
Yeah, don't know why 411 is like that. And yes, we usually know what people mean when they say "...the library by the school" or "the library by Target." When there are over 30 of the city libraries and 15 of the county libraries.
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