We have been occasionally receiving phone messages from people looking for real estate deals. We don't bother to return the calls since they aren't for us. The other night there was a message from FedEx on the machine saying they had tried to deliver something to us and the address was wrong.

When I called up they were trying to deliver the package not to us, but a real estate firm on Cumberland Parkway. Whomever they had tried to deliver it to was no longer there. I told the FedEx lady that the phone number was incorrect, too. Odd.

Today I was working at home, so I picked up the phone when it rang in case it was work related. Instead it was another one of those people calling about some land for sale. I told the gentleman that we weren't selling any land and asked where he'd seen the number. He said there was "a big sign" on highway 141, which is cross town, near Peachtree Industrial Boulevard.

Anyway, I am reading Steve Bass' PC Annoyances and noticed the sidebar about getting out "of Google's Reverse Directory." Just for the heck of it, I type our phone number in the Google search line—

—and came up with a real estate company on a familiar address on Cumberland Parkway.

Evidently they are long gone but have "forgotten" to take one of their signs down.

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. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 8:31:00 PM

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