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Another one that always made me wait for "the rest of the story" went like this...
I call a phone number for a household and ask to speak with a certain person ... "Hello, may I please speak with Gertrude Shnizzlefritz?"
The person responds, "This is." That's it... not "This is Gertrude," or even "speaking," just "this is." THIS IS WHAT?!?!! WHO?!?!?! Maybe it's a northeast USA thing...
The almost complete use of cell phones has limited the need for party verification nowadays, but it still crops up on the occasional land line call.
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