Dear Reader,
When I checked out of my Santiago hotel room this morning, the message light on the phone was still flashing. Actually, multiple lights were flashing. Two on the phone by the bed, two on the phone on the desk and one on phone in the bathroom.
I assume this means that someone called me, but I don't know who.
The first time this happened was sometime last week. I never even noticed the flashing message lights until I turned off the lights to go to bed. When I picked up the phone, a recording of a woman's voice said (in English), "You have a callback request. You can still make a call by pressing * and dialing the number as usual." And then the phone dialed some number and started ringing. It was 11:30 pm and no one answered my call before the second ring which was the fastest I could hang up the phone. The lights blinked on.
Out of curiosity about the way things work, I picked up the phone again, pressed * followed by the "voice mail" button, and then hung up on the overnight desk clerk. But the light had stopped flashing.
So, this second time when I picked up the phone and heard the "callback" message, I decided I could live without knowing (or disturbing) the person who had been kind enough to call me; and I apologize profusely if that person is you and you've been waiting for four days for me to pay attention to the flashing lights.
But stay by the phone! It the hotel clerk forgets to reset the voice mail before the next guest checks in, you may get a late night call yet!!
Yours from the Santiago airport,
LeAn
When I checked out of my Santiago hotel room this morning, the message light on the phone was still flashing. Actually, multiple lights were flashing. Two on the phone by the bed, two on the phone on the desk and one on phone in the bathroom.
I assume this means that someone called me, but I don't know who.
The first time this happened was sometime last week. I never even noticed the flashing message lights until I turned off the lights to go to bed. When I picked up the phone, a recording of a woman's voice said (in English), "You have a callback request. You can still make a call by pressing * and dialing the number as usual." And then the phone dialed some number and started ringing. It was 11:30 pm and no one answered my call before the second ring which was the fastest I could hang up the phone. The lights blinked on.
Out of curiosity about the way things work, I picked up the phone again, pressed * followed by the "voice mail" button, and then hung up on the overnight desk clerk. But the light had stopped flashing.
So, this second time when I picked up the phone and heard the "callback" message, I decided I could live without knowing (or disturbing) the person who had been kind enough to call me; and I apologize profusely if that person is you and you've been waiting for four days for me to pay attention to the flashing lights.
But stay by the phone! It the hotel clerk forgets to reset the voice mail before the next guest checks in, you may get a late night call yet!!
Yours from the Santiago airport,
LeAn
I was going to say - "Hey! But what if it was Ed McMahon calling to tell you that you just won a million dollars?!?!" But then I realized it couldn't have been him....Sorry!
ReplyDeleteOh - and it wasn't me either. Hope it wasn't your boss telling you to stay there longer!