Why can't I find Amanda Huginkiss?

Last week, two people were caught at a Coldpl…absolutely not. We’re better than that. You’re better than that.

Natasha Lavoie, a woman in British Columbia, has revealed she has been taking copious calls about a missing cat that isn’t hers. It turns out her phone number had been used as part of a t-shirt design, and fashion aficionados (or not) had been calling out of curiosity.

“I’m basically being harassed over a cat,” she said. Which would perhaps engender more sympathy if she hadn’t kept answering the calls for a full year.

Prank calls used to be all the rage, a staple of radio shows and a source of frequent Simpsons jokes (including the title of this section, in case you weren’t across a 33 year old pop culture reference).  

Technology has obviously changed this, although Prince Harry was apparently the victim of a hoax call from ‘Greta Thunberg’ aka Russian tricksters, and the son of an assistant coach at the Atlanta Falcons had to apologise to college football star Shedeur Sanders for a similar gag.

We have a little direct experience with this. Allegory’s phone number was previously owned by a party store, selling products including Space Jam beverage napkins and Hello Kitty party straws. 

This meant our hopes for an exciting new brief were often dashed by requests for a Baby Shark plastic table cover. Unlike Natasha Lavoie, we didn’t manage a year, and this week changed our number to (genuinely) 1800 YAPPER. Give us a call.