Telephone girls sometimes glory in their mistakes if there is a joke in consequence. The story is told by a telephone operator in one of the Boston exchanges about a man who asked her for the number of a local theater.
He got the wrong number and, without asking to whom he was talking, he said, "Can I get a box for two to-night?"
A startled voice answered him at the other end of the line, "We don't have boxes for two."
"Isn't this the - - Theater?" he called crossly.
"Why, no," was the answer, "this is an undertaking shop."
