A friend of mine was suffering from a sore throat and over a conversation happened to mention that she didn't sound like herself over the phone and had a tough time convincing callers that it was she, herself who had received the call.
This takes me back by a few years to something, that used to happen to me a real lot and which I am not exactly proud of. So did contemplate for a while whether I should put it up...
What the heck! Here goes...
Until some time back, people claimed that my voice sounded extremely feminine over the phone.
So, on receiving calls, the caller would invariably go, “Maam…”
If the call isn’t for me or in case of an arbitrary caller, I would let the impression stay presuming the clarification would make it even more embarrassing.
Now, it used to get really awkward if the call was meant for me. :o)
They would begin by addressing me as “Maam” (as usual) and then ask for me. When I used reply, “This IS Amit speaking” they would apologize only to require to apologize many times over through the call because my voice made them call me Maam and by then they knew that I was a not one.
So typically the caller would go, “but Maam, sorry Sir”.
Once a nut got so confused he actually said sorry after addressing me as SIR.
I am sure to run over him the next time I see him!
