Directory Enquiries


 Directory Enquiries

 The following are real conversations Directory Enquiries operators had

 with callers, as revealed in interviews withstaff at the Cardiff DE

 Centre.



 Caller : I'd like the number of the Argoed Fish Bar in Cardiff, please.

 Operator : I'm sorry, there's no listing. Is the spelling correct?

 Caller : Well, it used to be called the Bargoed Fish Bar but the B fell

 off.

 

 Then there was the caller who asked for a knitwear company in Woven.

 Operator : Woven? Are you sure?

 Caller : Yes. That's what it says on the label - Woven in Scotland.

 

 Caller : I'd like the RSPCA please.

 Operator : Where are you calling from?

 Caller : The living room

 

 Caller : The water board please.

 Operator : Which department?

 Caller : Tap water.

 

 Operator : How are you spelling that?

 Caller : With letters. 


 Caller : I'd like the number for a reverend in Cardiff, please.

 Operator : Do you have his name?

 Caller : No, but he has a dog named Ben.

 

 Caller : The Union of Shopkeepers and Alligators please.

 Operator : You mean the Amalgamated Union of Shopkeepers?

 

 On another occasion, a man making heavy breathing sounds from a phone

 box told the worried operator: "I haven't got a pen so I'm steaming up the

 window to write the number on."