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Got a long distance phone call, but didn't recognize the area code. I answered the phone, and the guy asked for Mark de Jong (which happens to be my father's name). I told him that Mark had gone curling for the evening and asked if I could take a message for him. He proceeded to ask me if this was the house of Mark de Jong, the saxophonist. I said, no, this Mark de Jong is a physicist. He told me he was calling from Los Angeles, and that apparantly, someone gave him the wrong info. SO I gave him the right telephone number, and he was rather surprised. We get so many phone calls for the OTHER Mark de Jong, that we have his home phone number posted beside our phone so we can give it out in situations like this.
This was the first time, though, that it had happened to me.
I laughed, and so did the guy from LA.