You, Too, Can Have Tom Sietsema On Your Speed Dial

From his washingtonpost.com chat yesterday:

Alexandria, Va.: While I don’t agree with the person who “took dinner reservations” on his/her cell phone, I used to have this same problem with my old home #. I would always tell people they had the wrong number, that “No, I’m sorry, this is not the # for the Fish Market.”
However, sometimes people would actually leave reservation messages for the restuarant on our (very obviously personalized) answering machine. I kind of felt like those people got what they deserved..

Tom Sietsema: Uh huh.

I sympathize. My home number — also personalized — is one digit off from a popular national call-in show on TV. I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to listen to the five or so (passionate!) messages I listen to when I get home at night, or the number of times I’ve been woken up by people who want to share their political opinions with me.

$1000 in fake FishbowlDC money to the person who finds out the show.

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