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So I was sitting on the train yesterday, it was to depart in the next five minutes when I get a phone call on my ancient but still operational mobile phone.

The caller addresses me by name. So far so good. Then he says what company he is calling from, but I don't quite catch it. Then he goes on and talks some more. I have no idea who he is, or even what he is saying. I think I manage to figure out that he is asking when I have a half hour available to meet with him. I still have no idea who he is or what he is calling about, nor even, what he has said since I answered the phone.

I say to him, do you mind emailing me with some more information?

He again answers with likely more words than are necessary for answering this question as to this time I still find him totally unintelligible.

I gathered from his incomprehensible response that he could indeed, send me an email, so I ask him, 'do you have my email address?'

This time I understand his answer, he says, 'of course' and then says a few other things following that which remain a mystery. So I ask him to email me, thank him for calling, he also says good bye and then we're done and was I ever grateful that that experience had come to an end.

I had joined the gym very recently whose membership is being subsidized by my employer. Provided with joining is a free session with a personal trainer to devise a plan or to simply gain advice. I received the email, it was the personal trainer who had called me, and we've arranged, by email fortunately, for us to meet on Friday.

I am not at all worried about understanding him in person; face to face I have many more cues to suggest to me what is being spoken about.

Sometimes I wonder if I had a better mobile phone, would I have a better time understanding people when they call me. Most of the time I figure it isn't the phone that is at fault.