From The Now I've Heard It All Files


A lady called work the other day wanting to know what it means when she phones a number and just keeps getting a busy signal. She even said it was a regular sounding busy signal, not the fast one that means something's wrong with the line. I suggested maybe, just a wild guess here, the line was busy. She seemed shocked by the idea. Surely it should go to a voicemail or an answering machine or something. But it just kept making a busy sound. She was genuinely puzzled by the whole thing.