55. Mr Andrews

Mr Andrews had a new telephone number. Before he got it, it was the number of a shop. The shop now had a new number, but a lot of women did not know this, so they still telephoned the old one.
At first, Mr and Mrs Andrews always said, ‘We are sorry. You have the wrong number. The shop has a new one now.’ But women still continued to telephone them to ask for things, so after some time, Mr and Mrs Andrews began to answer them like this:
‘Good morning, madam. What do you want us to send you today?’ They thought, ‘Perhaps they will stop telephoning us when they don’t get their things. But this did not help Mr and Mrs Andrews, because now women began to telephone them more and more, and say angrily, ‘Where are my things? They have not come yet! Why haven’t you sent them yet?’