“Why doesn’t my phone ring?” / Memorable Fancies #3381

       There are at least four billion people in the world who have phones, or who have access to phones, who can make my cell phone ring just by poking a few keys. If even only a very small portion of these four billion make a simple keying mistake even once a year, or if dogs somewhere in the world walk on phones left on the floor, my phone should be ringing constantly, a babble of words I don’t understand in Turkish, Malayalam, Danish, Greek, all of which seem to be versions of “Allô? Allô? Allô?,” and that’s what the dogs are trying to say, too. – But my phone doesn’t ring. – Why?

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