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I know a lot of people just don't answer calls from unknown numbers.
I answer calls from unknown numbers in area codes 617 and 781, because they are reliably calls I want. [This works in part because my cell phone has a New York number.]
A lot of them are from doctors' offices--even in normal times, the number that they're calling me from is often not the one I have stored on my phone. And now, with telemedicine, my doctor is calling me on either her personal cell phone, or maybe a home landline.
The most recent call was from a staffer at my state senator's office, returning my call from Saturday. She wanted to assure me that he is a co-sponsor of the police reform bill, and definitely wants to keep the clause about qualified immunity. I'd not realized he was a co-sponsor, but what I told her was that I know they're getting calls asking them to water it down, so I want him to know that his constituents support it as is.
Another such call, in the Before Times, was from the Belmont Senior Center, to let me know that they'd heard from my doctor and I was cleared to use the fitness room. (I used it twice, then stayed home once out of an abundance of caution, and then they closed it for the duration.)
If I'd written this six months ago, I'd have been noting that I now have a phone contact list full of legislators' offices, which wasn't the case until 2017.
I answer calls from unknown numbers in area codes 617 and 781, because they are reliably calls I want. [This works in part because my cell phone has a New York number.]
A lot of them are from doctors' offices--even in normal times, the number that they're calling me from is often not the one I have stored on my phone. And now, with telemedicine, my doctor is calling me on either her personal cell phone, or maybe a home landline.
The most recent call was from a staffer at my state senator's office, returning my call from Saturday. She wanted to assure me that he is a co-sponsor of the police reform bill, and definitely wants to keep the clause about qualified immunity. I'd not realized he was a co-sponsor, but what I told her was that I know they're getting calls asking them to water it down, so I want him to know that his constituents support it as is.
Another such call, in the Before Times, was from the Belmont Senior Center, to let me know that they'd heard from my doctor and I was cleared to use the fitness room. (I used it twice, then stayed home once out of an abundance of caution, and then they closed it for the duration.)
If I'd written this six months ago, I'd have been noting that I now have a phone contact list full of legislators' offices, which wasn't the case until 2017.