Hangup Phone Calls
But I digress. After we moved to the current location (Kootch's condo) a new kind of telephone behavior began to manifest itself: the 'hangup call.' These calls only affected me, not Kootch. When I answered the phone the caller would hang up immediately; when Kootch answered the phone the caller would turn out to be a wrong number or a sales pitch of some kind. They never hung up on Kootch. This went on for years. We changed the phone number a few times but they had the new number within days.
It was during this period (about the mid '80s) that I began to suspect the caller was Jewish. The reason was that the calls would happen frequently during tv programs related to Jews - Holocaust programs, for example, which were much more frequent back then than they are now. I eventually stopped answering the phone, and the hangup calls stopped.
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