As some of you will remember, Daniel P. is the guy with the puzzling phone demeanor, who answered the middle-of-the-night phone call in Albequerque during the 1997 West Coast Art Car Caravan. Here he contacts the makers of Nescafe on a goodwill mission of love or something.
Daniel P.: Hello? I got this number off the back of the Nescafe Hazelnut drink. Um . . . your drink is very good . . . first of all . . . thank you.
Nescafe Operator: [Unintelligible]
Yeah, yeah. I just wanted to call & let you know that. I'm on a road trip, and, um, I'm pretty far away from . . . a lot of things . . .now. In fact, I'm in a phone booth, um . . . quite far from a lot, and the Nescafe drink is very, very refreshing out here, and, um, I think you guys should know that, because you guys are really making a good product. And the cans--I mean, the cans are, like, really, really, thick cans, and so they really hold up well, so. . . .
Yeah, they're steel.
They're steel, huh?
Uh-huh.
How do you make a steel can?
I'm not sure how to make one.
Really? You guys are doing a really good job. You guys are doing such a . . . You guys are doing a really good job with this product, and um, it's just a very good feeling to be out here with this, and um, I just want to thank you.
Okay, well, what I'd like to do for you since you're out on the road, perhaps you'd like to [she asks for his address & the bar code from the can for Mark-of-the-Beast-type purposes or whatever.]
It's just a bar code number. Okay, here we go. Okay? Am I going to be on file now?
We'll just record your comments.
[They wrangle over the bar code]
I see a st-- yeah, it is made of steel, I see the little logo, like right underneath the bar code.
What store was this purchased at?
Well, I don't know, but we're . . . it was purchased at a store . . . we're . . . at a phone booth . . . very . . . we're at a phone booth about fifteen miles in from the Mojave Desert, and there's nothing else--
Is it the first time you've purchased it?
It's the first time I've purchased it and, and, and . . . I've called you from here.
May I have your first name?
Elfin. E-L-F-I-N.
E-L-F-I-N?
That's right.
And your last name?
Jackson. J-A-C-K-S-O-N.
May I have your address?
[Gives address and telephone number.]
[Unintelligible]
I'll give you that other number, because that's probably the more important number. 760. That's the area code. 733-9969.
[NOTE: This, in case you hadn't guessed, is the number of the Mojave Phone Booth.]
And you could call me back today, if you need to. If they need anything more.
We wouldn't need to call you back. We have your address.
Okay! Thank you . . . thank you for your . . . thank you for your product.
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