Ring My Bell

Here's how I spent my Friday night.

We've been dealing with a few Spanish prank callers for the last few months. Occasionally someone will call up speaking Spanish and I know that it's just a random wrong number, but for the last few months a man has called almost daily asking for a Mr Lopez. Mom usually answers and when she tells him he has the wrong number, he usually asks her what her name is and then if she has a husband. She hangs up at this point. We laugh at this and every time the phone rings, wonder if it's Mr Lopez calling.

Well, we have a new crank caller who calls, says something in Spanish, keeps speaking Spanish after we say he has the wrong number and no one speaks Spanish and then calls back at least once more after we hang up. It always comes up UNKNOWN NUMBER on the phone too. It's starting to really make us nervous so I went online tonight and translated what we needed to say if he called back. This is what I wrote and it's on our fridge:

WHEN ANYONE SPANISH CALLS, PLEASE REPEAT:

Nadie aquí habla español. Usted ha marcado un número incorrecto. El llamar o yo por favor de la parada tendrá que entrar en contacto con al policía.

TRANSLATION:

No one here speaks Spanish. You have dialled a wrong number. Please stop calling or I will have to contact the police.

With my French language background, I think I can fake a pretty good Spanish accent, and I can at least pronounce the words properly. He called three times on Friday. The first time I intended to say no one speaks Spanish but panicked and accidentally said "No habla anglais", laughing hysterically as I hung up at my gaff. The second time I just hung up and the third time he called, I repeated the above. There was silence for a second and then he hung up. Yay! Hopefully he got the message. I'm starting to get freaked out though since there's a tonne of crime here, especially home invasions and murders. There's way too much drama in Gotham and no Batman to be seen. Actually I'd settle for Robin at this point.