Ring.
Is that the alarm clock? I thought.
Ring.
Oh, it's the phone. Still half alseep I reached over and answered the phone. “Hello?”
Beep.
Beep.
Beep. Great, I thought. Someone dialed the wrong number and I'm talking to a fax machine. I hung up and went back to sleep.
A few minutes later. Ring.
Ring.
I pick up the phone. “Hello?”
Beep.
Beep.
I hung up again. Went back to sleep. A few minutes later.
Ring.
Ring.
I answer the phone.
Beep.
Beep.
I hung up.
Three more times that happened. Three! Almost made me wish I had a fax machine just to accept the fax, then fax back “WRONG NUMBER!”