Maybe you have to have been doing this for a while to know how truly funny that call was, but I heard her message and laughed my ass off for about an hour. Then I returned her call and told her, briefly, that this was not the way the world worked. I didn't say that out loud, of course. But I'm a writer, and I can afford to be nice to morons. If I'd been an editor and had gotten that call, I would have had the woman's name put on my Idiot List, and I would have made sure that anything that arrived on my desk with her name on it would have forever after been returned unopened.
Editors are so swamped they DON'T have time to be nice to morons.
They need publishable manuscripts, but one of those manuscripts doesn't have to be yours. With thousands of manuscripts pouring into publishing houses every month, editor's don't have to go too far to find something to buy. Writer's Digest Books publishes about half of them. Before you query, do be sure that the publishing house already publishes books like the one you've written, and that the editor you're querying works on similar books. In fact, I strongly recommend this particular guide, which offers more in-depth information on agents, editors, and publishers and what they're looking for than anything else I've found.