{"id":6,"date":"2007-02-19T02:36:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T10:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2007-02-19T02:45:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T10:45:37","slug":"my-good-friend-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"My Good Friend Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until recently, I was very fond of British Airways.<\/strong> They have awesome full-flat beds in business class, as well as nice lounges where you can wine and dine yourself to your heart’s content. Sure, their staff could be friendlier – I once had an airline attendant “quiz” me<\/strong> on the location of the nearest security exit<\/strong> after the “security presentation”. I should have asked her if she would like me to blow in the vest as well \ud83d\ude09 But overall, it was good value.<\/p>\n

Until recently.<\/strong> The last time I was flying, British Airways lost my luggage.<\/strong> Needless to say the love-hate slider between myself and BA made a little more progress towards the hate end that day. Brilliantly, I had also put my cell phone in the suitcase, which was also lost now. The first thing I did out of SFO was to buy a new temporary cell phone. I gave BA the number so they could keep me up to date on the “property irregularity report”.<\/p>\n

The next day in the middle of an important meeting, my temp phone rang. I excused myself, saying I just had to take this call – really didn’t want to miss it if it was the airline. So the voice at the other end spoke:<\/p>\n

“Anthony?”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Um…excuse me, who?”
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\n“Is Anthony there?”<\/em><\/p>\n

I wished so badly for them to be calling from BA. I “figured” maybe she has the wrong name or something:<\/p>\n

“Where are you calling from?”<\/p>\n

“??? San Francisco!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Turns out it was the wrong number, plain and simple.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I did not get a call from BA for the remainder of that day (even though I had been promised one). However, I did get a call from Anthony himself \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Hey dude…have you been getting calls for Anthony?”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Yes.”<\/p>\n

“That’s me.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“OK…”<\/p>\n

“Look dude, I change phone numbers a lot, and I move around a lot. If somebody calls me, tell them you don’t know me, you don’t know who I am, you don’t know where I am, and you don’t know my new phone number. Just tell them you don’t know anything about me and hang up.”<\/em><\/p>\n

WOW! Now this was entertaining \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

“Man, how would I know who you are or where you are anyways?”<\/p>\n

“OK thanks dude, I gotta run!”<\/em><\/p>\n

As Anthony had predicted, a lot of people did try to get in touch with him. There were lots of calls that started like this:<\/p>\n

“This is not a sales soliciation. This call contains important information about your account…”<\/em><\/p>\n

There were also some strange text messages:<\/p>\n

“Im home gogo ?!gangsta go da rnb thug!”<\/em><\/p>\n

(Don’t ask me what that means – although I imagine Anthony might know)<\/p>\n

Overall, during the course of the next weeks, I held on to the phone just to see what else I might find out about Anthony. I found out his last name through a friend who called, as well as the numbers of some of his friends. But Anthony himself remained elusive, even though I kept getting lots of his traffic \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n

And BA? They were in the process of actively losing my luggage when I made a trip to SFO two days later.<\/strong> My bag was sitting right there at the terminal and for some reason, they had not scanned it upon arrival. The unhelpful staff were now apologetic. I guess that’s it for flying BA and their business beds \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until recently, I was very fond of British Airways. They have awesome full-flat beds in business class, as well as nice lounges where you can wine and dine yourself to your heart’s content. Sure, their staff could be friendlier – I once had an airline attendant “quiz” me on the location of the nearest security … <\/p>\n

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