You're not the person from the council who phoned to tell me are you? it's just that they said exactly what you just did!
Of course - should have known when the voice on the end of the line said "are you that **** I need to speak to"? Bit slow on the uptake i'm afraid.
Can have hilarious consequences. You can bump into someone in the supermarket and 9 out of ten times if you call them a **** they'll chin you - on the tenth occasion they'll give you memebrship of the local Rotary club.