The almost annual phone call for the guy that used to have my number.

Shortly after I got my cell phone with a Philly area code I would start getting calls for the number's previous owner. It sounded like the previous owner had used it as a burn phone or for other criminal activity. At the time it was a Tracfone number and I used minutes cards.

I often got calls of a nefarious nature. I remember one being from someone that said they'd gotten out of prison. He wanted the money that was owed to him. Sounded like a drug deal.

As time passed the calls stopped coming in and went down to maybe once a year and it's been a couple years since I have received one.

Yesterday I got a call from Philly for the first time in a couple of years. The called asked for John and I finally got to use the classic line.

"No John here," I answered. "I $hit in a paper bag."

Click. He hung up on me.

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