I thought I'd write about this "little challenge".
A few months ago I bought a new phone from ebay for Jim.

He tried to use a few times and then decided that it was too fancy for him and he didn't like it much. So, I thought to myself "you kill the dog you carry it!" (it's an Armenian phrase).
Jim had to fly to California for some meetings and then to Utah and drive his car back home to Alabama. I didn't go with him, and I also kept the phone. We talked a lot while he was gone using our landline and his cell phone.
He was supposed to come back Saturday night and instead he called me on my new cell phone Friday at 6 A.M and here is the conversation:
Me: Hello? (Trying to wake up and understand what's happening)
Jim: Is this my Honey???? (with such a hesitation in his voice)
Me: Yes, of course! why? what's up?
Jim: I don't know...your voice is .... different....!
Me: That's because you woke me up early in the morning in case you didn't know that.
Jim: Sorry, would you please do me a big favor?
Me: Sure! (my heart is already pounding as I tend to think of something bad happened with him)
Jim: Could you please come to the front door and let me in?
I couldn't believe my ears, as he was already home. He drove all night without stops to get home early. I was happy!
But here's the fun part to come.
On Monday morning I am driving to my exercise class and I decided to call my friend Melissa and let her know that I've got a new number that she can call me directly. Here is our conversation (I might have forgotten something, sorry Melissa, if so):
Melissa: Hello?!
Me: Hi Melissa, it's Araksya!
Melissa: It's who?
Me: Araksya (with such a strange feeling, why didn't she recognize me?)! I have a new number now you can save that number to call me.
Melissa: Hold on a moment! (she turns on her speakerphone). let's try again, this might be better.
Me: Is it better? can you hear me?
Melissa: I have a hard time believing that it's you, the only thing that sounds a little familiar is your accent. Steve is listening to you now and he also agrees that it's a man's voice!
Me: (I started panicking and I am trying to make sure Steve understands that it's not a MAN talking to his wife) OK, let me change my phone and I'll call you back later to see if it's fixed.
Melissa: Oh, please, because I can't talk to you like that, sorry!
I hung up and I still don't really know what's going on. I got to my class and Sherilyn was there, so I told her about the conversation with Melissa and decided to call Sherilyn so she can hear "my" voice.
As I called and started talking to her from the next room, she said, it's really a man's voice. So we switched our phones and this time Sherilyn spoke to me from my phone. That literally gave me chills and I was shocked!
Now I understand why Melissa couldn't talk to me and why my husband, coming home a day early from his trip calls me and a man's voice answers the phone! Wow!
As I was telling this to my brother in Armenia, he got excited about this new phone and the ability to change voices. I think I'll give the phone to him when we go back to Armenia next year. He also helped me fix some settings in the phone and got my normal voice back. Thanks Hrach!! As it appears my phone has voices of 2 men and 2 women and a child.
When I told this to my sister, she and her husband were laughing SO hard! Then after we hung up my sister asked her husband - what would have you done if you were in the place of Jim, when you call and a man's voice answered the phone? he said - you know better what I would have done! (and he means it! a big jealousy and sick doubts in those men in Armenia!)
I am grateful Jim didn't think that way! Maybe I'll play another trick on him?!!