Question! Could you do this if you were really angry ?

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny.





Phone Won't Stop Ringing?





Here's What You Do





Leola Starling of Ribrock, Tenn., had a serious telephone problem. But unlike most people she did something about it.





The brand-new $10 million Ribrock Plaza Motel opened nearby and had acquired almost the same telephone number as Leola.





From the moment the motel opened, Leola was besieged by calls not for her. Since she had the same phone number for years, she felt that she had a case to persuade the motel management to change its number.





Naturally, the management refused claiming that it could not change its stationery.





The phone company was not helpful, either. A number was a number, and just because a customer was getting someone else's calls 24 hours a day didn't make it responsible. After her pleas fell on deaf ears, Leola decided to take matters into her own hands.





At 9 o'clock the phone rang. Someone from Memphis was calling the motel and asked for a room for the following Tuesday. Leoloa said, "No problem. How many nights?"





A few hours later Dallas checked in. A secretary wanted a suite with two bedrooms for a week. Emboldened, Leola said the Presidential Suite on the 10th floor was available for $600 a night. The secretary said that she would take it and asked if the hotel wanted a deposit. "No, that won't be necessary," Leola said. "We trust you."





The next day was a busy one for Leola. In the morning, she booked an electric appliance manufacturers' convention for Memorial Day weekend, a college prom and a reunion of the 82nd Airborne veterans from World War II.





She turned on her answering machine during lunchtime so that she could watch her favorite soap opera, but her biggest challenge came in the afternoon when a mother called to book the ballroom for her daughter's wedding in June.





Leola assured the woman that it would be no problem and asked if she would be providing the flowers or did she want the hotel to take care of it. The mother said that she would prefer the hotel to handle the floral arrangements. Then the question of valet parking came up. Once again Leola was helpful. "There's no charge for valet parking, but we always recommend that the client tips the drivers."





Within a few months, the Ribrock Plaza Motel was a disaster area.





People kept showing up for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and Sweet Sixteen parties and were all told there were no such events.





Leola had her final revenge when she read in the local paper that the motel might go bankrupt. Her phone rang, and an executive from Marriott said, "We're prepared to offer you $200,000 for the motel."





Leola replied. "We'll take it, but only if you change the telephone number."

Question! Could you do this if you were really angry ?
dont think its true however it is a great story. i know we do that sometimes to when they call us instead of a pizza restaurant :P
Reply:Probably an urban myth but a good story anyway. May try that because my phone number is only one away from a local florist, and I have also taken an order for flowers after several calls in one day....so it does happen.
Reply:Yep, I'd do it. But I sort of doubt if she and the hotel had the same numbers if they were in the same town. They would both be getting the same calls. Just like having an extension phone. This sounds more like an Urban Legand.
Reply:Yes i would do the same lol :D


I mean the owners of the hotel weren't thinking that a regular person would do something and got a surprise :D The story is awesome even if its a myth ;D
Reply:It's an urban legend. It didn't really happen. Sound like a good idea, though.
Reply:I couldn't do it myself, I would feel too badly for the weddings and stuff. I think it's a very good story and love the little guy winning. Thanks for the laugh.
Reply:wow really interesting.


i probably would do it b/c they decided not to change their number.
Reply:You say:





Question! Could you do this if you were really angry ?





I say:





Absolutely and without loosing a moments sleep over the deal...
Reply:This sounds like a script for a Steve Martin comedy. I had to laugh even while feeling sorry for the people who were left in the lurch.
Reply:Cool. I like it and I'd do something similar.
Reply:No, I couldn't do that because she was punishing the wrong people!! She should have just asked the phone company for another number!! They give you a choice of three different numbers!! lol
Reply:lol.....loved it....will have to remember that....used to get calls for some pharmacy...they had the same number...different area code
Reply:that's awesome. I would so do that.
Reply:She's got guts. I think what she did was the right thing to do.
Reply:HA!!! Thats funny!
Reply:I like her style!!Good for her.
Reply:So there is such a thing as divine justice!!!!
Reply:Oh, I DO hope it's true!!
Reply:She is really good with that kind of stuff. i would do it to....thats so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
Reply:I don't think I would be able to think of doing something like that but good on her!
Reply:fair play 2 her but that is going way 2 far
Reply:i like it
Reply:WOW! That would teach them to mess with her alright. She must have a lot of energy. It would have been a lot easier to change her number! I know it's the principal of the thing but still. I would be afraid to mess with a company that big! I might go to start my car someday and have it blow up in my face! It's a great story as always!!! Keep the coming!!! :-)
Reply:HA HA HA, ok i guess its not funny for those poor people who have been effected by it - eg the wedding party.


Serioulsy though if i were that woman then yes i would do that out of anger. why? because us little people are always put 2nd place by large corporate companies who only pay attention to us when we are fillig thier pockets.





The issue should have been resovled at the start and the hotel should have changed their number. thats such a simple thing to do. Tackling a huge company like that is not something that anyone does.





I think the hotel got what they desrved if its a true story. The only sad thing is that there were innocent victims who should not have suffered.
Reply:That was one determined woman, even if it was a contrived


story. I wouldn't be as quick to think as she apparently was.


I've had the same number as a business, in the past, and


would get annoyed with having to tell the calling party that


the number was not for the party they were seeking, but a


private residence instead. I eventually called the phone co.


and asked that they straighten it out. Apparently it was a


phone book error.
Reply:I very much doubt I could do it, but, if true, I don't blame her a bit. It is funny and sad. Taken at face value, she could have done something a little different. Taken the reservations then handed them into the motel. Kept all the recorded phone calls and again go to manager or contact home office, but I like what you wrote the best.

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