The phone rang so I picked it up and asked "Who's speaking, please?" The voice at the other end said "You are."


This is true: I rang a contact number for Welcombe Village Hall to buy some tickets for a gig. The phone at the other end clattered off the hook and a dog started barking down it. As I insanely repeated "Hello? Hello...?" the dog howled like a banshee.

I tried again a few hours later, got the bloke this time and bought the tickets. I started to mention the earlier incident, but he just said "The dog answered, didn't he? He barked, then howled as you spoke? Yeah, he always does that..." He sounded quite bored, as if what had happened had been the most normal, mundane thing in the world. A while later I found out that my friend had had exactly the same experience with that dog buying tickets for the same gig.