On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 1:51:51 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:26:34 -0500, James Silverton
> > wrote:
>
> >All the phones that are convenient in my house can display Caller ID. I
> >have taken only to answering those that show an intelligible identity
> >and not "unknown caller" etc., nor "wireless caller" nor a phone number.
> >
> >I also have an answering service and I wonder if I am making any
> >unfortunate mistakes with my policy since any serious caller will leave
> >a message including ID?
>
> Well it can cause problems needlessly. Last weekend a friend dropped
> past as I had printed off passport renewal forms for her. She had
> arranged to go from here to another friend so they could sign as a
> reference.
>
> When she filled them in, come to find one no longer needs a signature
> for that, simply the name, details and phone number of the reference.
> She wanted to call her other friend and avoid going across town but
> the friend kept not picking up the phone, my phone shows as Unknown
> Number because it not listed. So she had to go needlessly to tell
> her.

Didn't the friend have an answering device, where your buddy could yell, "It's me - pickup the @$#$ phone."?