Are they bored?

I find it quite confounding as to why my modest little store would receive calls from correctional facilities. I doubt highly that is an occurrence peculiar to my employ alone. Somehow I suspect these calls get placed to porn stores nationally.

What I fail to ken is why.

Immediately upon answering the phone, a nicely impersonal recording informs you that someone from [insert name] correctional facility/jail/lock-up/gaol is attempting to place a collect call, gives a few conditions, and then asks if you wish to accept the charges. I don't know of any business that will accept the charges for a call except under extremely rare circumstances, such as one of the CEOs has been abducted by militant Rastafarians and the only phone number they can recall is their office switchboard. Even then, the odds would be excellent he'd get hung up on. Make it a double shot of prison and stranger and I can't comprehend that they'd have any chance at all of connecting their call. Or perhaps I'm just giving the populace too much credit for intelligence.

So let's assume for the moment that I'm regularly outsmarted by hominy grits and actually take the call. What in the name of Hera's hemorrhoids would the inmate seek to gain? It isn't as if we make deliveries. Even if we did, he has no money with which to secure such commerce. Unless I mistake myself, I also believe their access to explicit materials is strictly curtailed. Thus, no movies, toys, or magazines for them through a store.

Do they think we serve as ad hoc sex lines? They can't dial a nine-seven-six number, so they're hoping to wheedle out some sort of erotic conversation? Apparently the dye from their issued jumpsuits has leeched into the brain. We have a business to keep running and making sure inmates are getting as many orgasms as they like is nowhere near part of it. Especially on our dime.

Besides, the calls are monitored. There's no way the prison system is going to refrain from cutting the connection the moment Limp Willy from Block D starts breathlessly asking someone to describe the newest model of penis pump.

So why in the bloody hells would they be burning their phone time to contact an adult store?!