TIDDLER 4
Now for another Tiddler strip...
I never had a cat switch off the alarm before (a good excuse for turning up late for work, come to think of it), but I have had angry friends and colleagues phoning me after midnight, complaining that they'd just had a 'silent' phone call in the middle of the night, and when they tried 'last caller' the call turned out to have come from my phone.
It wasn't me phoning, I swear I was asleep. It was all very mysterious, but I eventually worked out what happened. My cat Jones had walked across the desk in my studio and stepped on one of the predialled numbers set up on my office phone, thus calling the angry party's number.
In order to do this, Jonesy would have had to step on the hands-free button so the phone would dial out without the handset being lifted, then step on one of the predial buttons, in that order. There were dozens of buttons on that phone (it was also a fax) but it would only work if she pressed those two buttons in that exact order.
Just about possible for a cat with small feet, and if it had happened just once, I could have put it down to accident or coincidence. The trouble is, it happened twice, which is a little more sinister. Both times after midnight, too. To this day, I wonder if I had offended Jonesy in some way...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:06:20 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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