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Originally Posted by Katsunami
My parent's house had a landline phone number that differed just one number from the one of a local doctor. It seems some idiot spread OUR number among an entire family of non-Dutch people, instead of the doctor's. Very often we'd pick up the phone to be greeted thus:
In Dutch, including accent: "Aaloo, spuriek iek mat die praktoik fan doktor Doezands?"
In (proper) English: "Hi, do i speak with the practice of doctor Duizends?"
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There is a law firm that is specialized in immigration that had accidentally printed our telephone number on their paper. They knew this but every couple of months we would get several phonecalls a day by people speaking little to no Dutch. It was often impossible to get them to understand they called the wrong number. Often the people calling were upset or half hysterical. When we called the law firm to tell them they were using the wrong paper again we usually got a rude answer.
Until someone from the governments immigration services called trying to reach the law firm. I explained our problem and he told me he would deal with it and since then we haven't gotten any phone calls anymore.