Dial Tone

"When the phone rings, you expect someone’s voice to respond to your answer. If that doesn’t hap-pen, depending on your personality and the number of times you’ve heard nothing but dead air, you re-act in one of several ways. Over the late spring and summer of last year, I got bunches of hangup calls, all from one person who thought he could psych me into admitting guilt that didn’t belong to me.
There was supposed to be a message in it, naturally, but damned if I could guess the real point. Night after night, I got phone calls with no one at the far end, just the irritating hum of the open line when I picked up. The first time was less than a year ago, and it still puzzles me about the caller’s reason. My guess: Playing-God-by-Phone-Tag. . .
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