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If you don’t know who Kevin is, join the club. Long story short, Kevin used to have my phone number.

The past few days I’ve been getting mysterious and persistant recorded messages saying that the party at my number needs to call this company at their toll-free number. Usually I ignore the hell out of recorded things like that, because it’s usually some bulk caller that I don’t care about, but they were really on about something. Yesterday I called the number…and it’s a collection agency. Oh joy and rapture! The receptionist at the company connected me to someone’s voicemail, and I left a polite message saying that I had no idea why they were contacting me, but please give me a call back. Tonight I get another call from the company, and I answer right away.

“Hello, may I speak to Kevin?”

KEVIN!

I explained that Kevin used to have this phone number, this wasn’t the first time it has happened, and I apologized but I had no forwarding information for him. The person on the other end was polite enough and ended the call, but I’m worried that this isn’t going to be the end of it. Collection agencies probably hear the “Dave’s not here, man!” line all the time, and while I don’t know what he owes, if an agency is on the case it’s probably not minor at this point. On the one hand, I feel bad for him. On the other hand, if I ever find out who he is, I’ll reintroduce him to his phone number in a very unappealing way. Leaving your creditors on your old phone number is not a thing you do in polite society.