OH MY GOD!!! I got a Very Important Phone Call today from the French government people, and the dude who called me had a stutter. To make up for it, he spoke really quickly and if he tripped over a word, he just got the first thing he could out and moved on.
This was fine for the entire message he left on my machine, except that part about the phone number. I am missing two very important numbers. I have listened to the message over and over, and I just keep hearing the two numbers come out as 40-13. Which is IMPOSSIBLE. It needs to be something like 36 or 77 or whatever.
This is nightmarish because these people do not call back twice. I've learned that much over the years in France. Argh! I tried calling information (I said, "Hi, I'm looking for a judge in Paris. I have eight of the ten required numbers for his phone number. Is there anything you can do?") but they could only connect me to the general center of info concerning my problem (nobody answered). Then I called the service where I sent my Imporant Letter. No answer.
Then I sat and tried every possible combo that would maybe work with what I heard. I got lots of "This number doesn't exist"s and two French people hung up on me. One man said, "Who are you?" and I said, "Oh, I must have gotten a wrong number" and he said, "Yeah, obviously, but who are you?" That was a little spooky.
maybe you could get a few friends to listen to the message and see what everyone thinks he might be saying....