Not sure, p, how to respond to your opening up my problem. Is S top some sort of smartphone shorthand for skimpy top? Then Saint Operation? Stow Patrick? But where? He is already stowed away in Raines Park is he not? Bill. Stop. > On 25 Feb 2015, at 8:18 am, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Bill > Perhaps yours is an unknown phone number maybe a typo > Perhaps it should read 'S top' or St op' or just 'sto p' > Which could be very serious > Sto p > I blame Lawrence Upton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Bill Wootton > Sent: 24 February 2015 21:07 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: STOP > > STOP > > One word message > on my phone > left at 7.03, > unknown phone number, > followed by > Stop, > lower case, > at 8.04. > Different phone number, > also unknown. > > Feel tempted to enquire, > of one, or both, > Just what exactly > is it you would have > me desist from doing. > o unknown one(s)? > > But what if this leads > to some sort > of unstoppable scam, > jamming up my phone > for ever more? > > Later, on Facebook, > I note an acquaintance > has posted Stop, > a song by The Spice Girls. > I play it a bit. > It's the drivel I expect. > > Stop. > I didn't even know > I'd started. > > bw >