Most callers are female and want to talk about relationships or feeling blue.
The caller to the Chicago schools' special truancy line wanted to ask a hypothetical question.
By early February, she said, it was already getting tough to find precisely what callers wanted.
But many callers do not want the agency's toll-free number.
For example, a caller looking for a coffee shop will probably want one within walking distance.
He said the callers wanted to know how large a settlement Pennzoil would accept.
The caller wanted a new shirt, monogrammed, within a few days.
The main aim is to find out as much as possible about what the caller wants.
The next caller wanted a better room and Lekvich told him to call reservations.
A caller wanted the number of the movie theater by that name.