The Telephone Lady – Disconnected.
“The number you have reached has been changed. The new number is …†How many times have you heard that message? It turns out that the voice you (and approximately 22 million other people per day) heard belonged to Jane Barbe. She died yesterday at age 74. Ms. Barbe had been recording messages for phone companies around the country for more than 40 years. Pretty amazing.
I wonder if Ms. Barbe ever met AOL’s “You’ve got mail†guy, maybe at some kind of convention of people who make recorded messages heard by gazillions of people every day.
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