Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

Through an odd coincidence, I have learned that our landlord is planning to replace at least one of our apartment windows, which definitely needs it:

I got a call this morning from a number I didn't recognize, which I answered because it wasn't the pattern the scammers tend to spoof. The caller said that he was from "High-Tech Windows," and that my landlord was replacing all the windows in our building, so he needed to make an appointment for someone to come measure them. I suggested 10 a.m. tomorrow, which he agreed to.

After hanging up, it occurred to me that anyone could claim to be calling from a window company, so I called the building management company, to make sure I hadn't been conned into making an appointment for a burglary. The person I talked to was confused--but it wasn't the confusion of "window replacement, what window replacement?" It was "are they at the door now... They weren't supposed to be calling to make appointments, they put notices under the apartment doors last night, and should be there now." He said he would call the building owner and get back to me.

It transpired that while my landlord has never heard of "High-Tech Windows," they are planning to replace at least one of my windows. However, they won't need to enter our apartment because they measured one of the identical apartments upstairs.

I called High-Tech Windows back to let them know that they didn't have an appointment for 10 tomorrow, and that they still needed to talk to whoever they thought they were talking to when they called me. The guy thanked me for getting back to him, which I did mostly because I was thinking of the possible inconvenience to the person who he thought he had made an appointment with. A small oddity of the whole thing--beyond the coincidence of him calling a wrong number belonging to someone else whose landlord was measuring for new windows that day, is something I didn't even think of until after sorting things out with my landlord. During the first call, the caller had said any time tomorrow would be fine because his crew was "right around the corner on Fort Washington Avenue." At the time that had pinged as "familiar" from a quarter century of living in Upper Manhattan rather than as "wait a minute, that's in New York," but I remembered the phrasing and noticed the anomaly before calling the guy back and telling him that he was talking to someone in Massachusetts.