Heh a funny thing happened the other day
The funniest thing happened to me yesterday at work - I was doing some ADSL troubleshooting for a customer, she had 2 phone lines - plugged the adsl modem into the phone line used for dialup & had been having problems with it connecting.
After a while we managed to get the adsl router/modem to communicate with the computer, and I asked her what number was her ADSL line provisioned on.
“oh that’s easy, my home number 08 XXXX XXXX”
“I see, and what is the phone number for the line you are connected to at the moment?”
“oh umm, 08 XXXX XXYY”
“The ADSL modem is on the wrong line, can you move it across to your main land line?” says I, not realising she’s not using a mobile phone…
“Sure just let me unplug-[click] *beep*beep*beep*beep*”
I eventually stopped laughing enough to call her back on her mobile phone. We eventually figured that her ADSL line has not been provisioned correctly, and she’s too embarrassed to talk about the fact she was on the phone when she pulled it out of the wall.