One of the perils of popping away for a few days is that you have to close the office (to some degree) and, incredibly, I got a call during the approximately 30 seconds I was in mobile area contact! Unfortunately, the call dropped when I answered the phone. D’oh! Still, being over 100 miles away it is unlikely that I could have helped much.
The pervasive nature of IT and telecoms was brought home to me a few months ago, when I was at a locksmithing meet-up in Sneek, in The Netherlands. I walked up the hostel stairs, and the phone rang, with a job. I arranged to deal with this at 6pm the following day (Monday), and hung up. Pretty amazing when you stop and think about it, as the customer had simply called the regular number, and the computer systems had directed the call through to me.
All good fun. Just like New Years.