Ring ring
When some local person calls my new Malaysian phone number I know they got it wrong. I haven’t given my number to anyone local yet and I only get calls from Thailand.
Ring ring.
Female voice speaking Malay: blah blah blah?
Me: Wrong number.
Female voice, switching to English: Why do you say it is the wrong number just because you don’t know me?
Me: I am orang puthi (”man white”)
Female: What?
Me: Orang puthi.
Female: Orang puthi! Where are you from?
Me: Farangland.
Female: A foreigner!
Then she hanged up.
It was a step up from the Thai approach to calling the wrong number, which is to argue with me in Thai and say the number is correct and why can’t Somchai come to the phone? They all but accuse me of keeping Somchai, the rightful owner of the phone, from talking to them.
Tag: Malaysia
March 8th, 2008 at 11:32 am
The solution is obvious - if you don’t know the caller or he is not a cute boy you want to know, don’t answer the phone.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
or just answer the phone “Police department”
March 9th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Ian is so right.