it is so that a small number of people (of the person variation) have my phone number. this is really more by default than design, look you see, for there are not all that many who would have an interest in such knowledge. of that number who have such information, a significantly low number of people who could do so ever actually use it. well, for what reason would one wish to have speaks with me.
the above is not written to provoke some pandering to poor, poor, pitiful me, or even so that i may sail (or surf) on a wave of sorrow. no, rather it is to set a scene. and that scene is the general level of surprise when my phone rings, beeps, vibrates or does anything what one could consider indicative of someone deciding to reach me via it.
every now and then it is a all off of a chum, which is most splendid. most predominantly, though, it would be the usual junk what blemishes my phone - calls about some sort of car accident, or insurance, or similar. recently, however, what i think is a change to that type of call came through to my phone. sadly, or alas, as you can see, i failed to answer it.
yes, it was indeed so that i got distracted, or momentarily hypnotised, by the peculiar (to me) looking telephone number. i had not, so far as i could recall, ever encountered the +53 dialling code before, so wondered where in the world this call was either from, or pretending to be from, for i believe it is so that one can adjust various settings on a phone or computer (or computer phone) to make it seem like any call made is coming from anywhere you care to state.
normally, or usually, yes i would obscure the number on any dodgy call or text what i got. all bets in that regard are, alas, well and truly off now, after that incident. the one where someone hacked all that twitter sh!t and made out that the likes of Barack Obama and that Elton Musky were promoting some sort of "crypto currency" that could double your money. people fell for that, with many hundreds of thousands of dollars. for what reason does anyone still use that twitter sh!t? so far as i can see all it does is make people momentarily angry for no good reason yet has long term consequences, gets people into trouble and often fired from verk, or cons people. just bin it. when it came out yes it was mildly interesting to learn of when Stephen Fry was having a cup of tea, but the novelty of that long since wore off, and nothing at all good comes from the wretched thing.
getting somewhat back to the point (if there is one), some deft, rudimentary google work established that the mythical +53 code on a phone number is the international code for no less than Cuba, dear read. yes indeed that Cuba. one that i don't really have any sort of connection with, bar youthful studies of the decidedly Argentinian Che Guevara, the fact that the Manics did a gig there, my mate Mike once giving us a cigar off of there (most splendid it was) and watching Godfather II.
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consequentially, or ergo, i would have no idea at all as to who would be wanting to call me in general, but even less so in respect of it being someone off of Cuba. i mean, yes, sure, it is remotely possible that it was a call off of the administration of whichever Castro is presently in power, sounding me out for a minor governmental role, but i would have thought they would have written a letter, or some other such formal correspondence (letter on a letterhead, for instance), to communicate such an ambition.
a high probability suggests that the call originated from somewhere with rather flexible, open to interpretation laws regarding using phones for scams. not necessarily Russia, for it could easily be from India, or one of them countries near Russia that Putin probably sees as his anyway. i am also reasonably sure that the idea is for me to call back, and find me spending several hundred, or thousand, of coins of money on a premium line number.
but still, i shall rather just take it as a given that this is some sort of friend, admirer or indeed even connection of mine in Cuba, who has gone to some great trouble to try and have speaks with me. regrettably yes, i disappointed them by not answering the phone in good time, but perhaps they shall phone back. life feels that little less lonely and isolated with such being the case.
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