What do you do when you get a wrong number?
Do you apologize and hang up?
Or do you try to keep the conversation?
Then again it depends on what end of the phone you're on.
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"Is your refrigerator running?"
"No, my refrigerator is not running."
"Well you better...wait, what?"
"Actually, it broke down a week ago because it knew that you were going to call with that stupid line and it decided it would rather die than listen to you say it. So now, thanks to you, I don't have a fridge and all of my food has gone bad."
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Sometimes you find the crucial answers in the weirdest of places...and people.