I emailed a certain service yesterday to make a certain appointment. The man I exchanged emails with asked: Do you have a number that I could call you on?

I wasn’t sure what he meant. Everyone has a number those days, I hope, so that seemed like an unusual choice of words. Did he need my number just in case, for his records, or was he actually going to call me before the appointment?

I was so confused and wondering why some people are so imprecise in their communication.

After like 15 minutes of thinking, while I was eating my lunch, I decided the ‘number man’ must have intended to call me. After all, he said ‘that I could call you on.’ That means, he wanted to call me. And he really did after finally I gave him the number.