NationStates Jolt Archive

I saw the thread about random snail mail, and it reminded me that I get random phone calls. The other day I had a message left on my phone that was very hard to understand, it was an elderly woman with a VERY thick local yokel accent talking about sausages, it was so amusing that I saved it and when friends came round for dinner that night we all listened to it, nobody could understand what she was saying other than something about 7 pork sausages, in the end I laughed so much I got hiccups. I also have a similar number to a local hairdresser and often get calls for them, some people can get quite upset when I tell them I can't cut their hair and that they have a wrong number. Another time my daughter took a call, and then said to me 'a girl rang up and asked if she could come round and sweep up and make tea and coffee, so I told her that she could if she wanted' I had to explain to my daughter that the girl thought that we were the hairdressers and that she was looking for a job.....We let her work here for a week before we told her we weren't...:p

Reminds me of a call I got from a little girl asking:

''Daddy, can we open the maltesers yet?''

So I replied with a random scream, followed by a ''yes''.

Another time my daughter took a call, and then said to me 'a girl rang up and asked if she could come round and sweep up and make tea and coffee, so I told her that she could if she wanted'Ahaha, brilliant! :p

But no, I don't really have any funny stories like that. Though I sure could use someone to come round and sweep up and make tea and coffee. :p

One girl called me cursing me out. I kept asking who she was and she said, "Oh you know who this is. You know my name!" I had no idea. I took the abuse for about a minute and a half before hanging up. Something about me sleeping with another woman, or something.

Back home my family's phone number is nearly identical to the local dentist's. A few years ago they were advertising for a new receptionist, and we got 4 calls about the job. I took 2 of those calls. I asked one girl to send her CV to my neighbour's house, and told the other that she could have the job as 'none of the other candidates felt comfortable taking a job where the employer walks around the workplace naked during his breaks'.

There's a guy named Aaron with a number very similar to mine - and apparently he has a severely overactive social life. I get more of his calls by mistake than I do mine on purpose.

Apparently whoever had my number before I did didn't pay any of her bills.....

"hello"
"is Theresa there?"
"no, you have the wrong number"
"what time will she be back"
"she doesn't live here, you have the wrong number"
"did she move out?"
"she never lived her I don't know her, you have the wrong number, we got this number 3 years ago, I have never met the woman!!!!!"
"do you know how we can reach her?"
"NO!"
"well, if you could just get out your check book and do a check over the phone to take care of her account I am sure she will pay you back the next time you see her"
"I DON'T FUCKING KNOW HER"
"oh, can I leave a message for her?"

:headbang:

I get about 9 calls a day for her, each one from a different company, sometimes I think she must be still giving out this number on her credit applications.

Unfortunately my phone number is one digit off a nearby Chinese restaurant so I get people calling at ridiculous times to order food.

The first time was pretty weird. I was watching some movie at around 11pm and the phone starts ringing. Thinking that it must have been an emergency to call at that time I rushed to pick it up but instead there was some guy saying something like '11, 36 and 14' Which shook me up quite a bit until I realised what it was about, then I was just peed off.

"hello"
"is Theresa there?"
"no, you have the wrong number"
"what time will she be back"
"she doesn't live here, you have the wrong number"
"did she move out?"
"she never lived her I don't know her, you have the wrong number, we got this number 3 years ago, I have never met the woman!!!!!"
"do you know how we can reach her?"
"NO!"
"well, if you could just get out your check book and do a check over the phone to take care of her account I am sure she will pay you back the next time you see her"
"I DON'T FUCKING KNOW HER"
"oh, can I leave a message for her?"
LOL! Oh, that's classic! Especially the last line! Brilliant. I think when someone next phones for 'Theresa', give the phone to your 2 year old :p

I get a few calls from random people with the wrong number. But never funny ones :(

LOL! Oh, that's classic! Especially the last line! Brilliant. I think when someone next phones for 'Theresa', give the phone to your 2 year old :p
I let my 4 year old answer it sometimes, it's hilarious, but I can only hear her side of the conversation

"hi"

"isn't she like a dead nun?"

"I don't have a mommy or daddy"

"yeah, like Oliver Twist"

"oh, we don't have any money, we are poor orphans, didn't you read Oliver Twist?"

"I don't think you can read."

then they hang up on her.

A little girl once called me and asked me if she could come over for "play time," I told her she had the wrong number.

Five minutes later she called back and asked again, I told her it was the same wrong number she called before, and she hung up.

Five more minutes later a woman calls and screams "STOP PLAYING AROUND WITH MY DAUGHTER! I WILL CALL THE POLICE!" I told this rage-filled woman that her daughter simply had the wrong number and that I wasn't playing games with her. She hung up.

:confused:

In the old days if somebody accidentally called your number they would apoligize for wasting your time. Nowadays if somebody calls your number by mistake they're mad at you. If people care enough about the person they are trying to reach that they scream at you, they should also care enough to dial the right number in the first place.

Some time ago, I called a radio phone in, the radio station took your number and then called me back. when they called back live on air, I took the call and started to talk to the guy when suddenly a little voice pipes up..'hello!' its my two year old, who heard the phone ring and picked up the extension..the following conversation took place live on air..

Me: Put the phone down darling
Her: Hello Mummy
Me: Hello, now I am talking to the man, please put the phone down
Her: Hello
The Radio guy (laughing) :Hello!
Her:hello man
Me: put the phone down
Her:no!
Me:Put the phone down young lady!
RG: Bye bye
Her: Bye man

the phone went quiet and we carried on the conversation (it was a serious call about something that I can not remember now)

a little voice interupted

Her: Hello man
Me: be a good girl and put the phone down
Her: I done a poo

We had to end the call then as the radio show guy, his guest and myself could not continue as we were all laughing, and trying not too..for ages after people came up to me and said 'I heard you on the radio' and walked off laughing..

The funniest phone call we had went something like.....

voice; hello, do you do Swedish massage?

Me; (Thinking its my bro-in-law messing about ) yes...we do all kinds of massage.

Voice; How much do you charge?

Me; Oh we're very cheap!

Voice; Do I need to make an appointment?

Me; Colin..that is you.....

Voice; no...it's micheal...

Me; come on...stop messing about!

Voice; I'm not, I'm serious.

*Hang up phone with a red face.*

I found out after several more calls that our number was one digit different from a massage parlour!

t was about 2 days before my birthday last year. I'd just moved to the US, and knew nobody, but I got a text message from someone saying 'Happy Birthday! So where's the party?' So I looked at my husband accusingly for about 5 minutes before he noticed, and I asked him if he was planning a party I didn't know about. He got upset because I was accusing him of something, and the poor guy didn't have a clue what I was on about! So I text back and asked who the guy was, and he said "It's me, Liam!". Only Liam I know was about three months old at the time!

My phone number is one digit off from a lawyer who advertises in the subway for people who have been injured in 'any kind of accidents', and the ad also says they speak Spanish. Once in a while I get someone who calls up and blathers at me in Spanish until they realize I am not understanding them, then blathers on in broken English about how they want to sue their mother for making them trip over her hall carpet and sprain a wrist, or how they dropped their groceries while crossing the street and now want to sue the City of New York (apparently clumsiness is the fault of the government now).

Once in a while I take the case (especially if it has absolutely no merit... like the girl who wanted to sue somebody because when it was raining, she passed under a store awning and it was dripping, which made a puddle, and she stepped in it and soaked her shoes and when she was trying to shake the water out, she fell down and now has whiplash and can't go to work anymore...)

I tell them to come into the office on Friday at 3pm and bring all their documents and I guarantee we will win this case. I also give them a confirmation number, so they can check that the case has been entered in the computer when they come, and tell them I am sure that we can get at least $200,000 for pain and suffering, and unlike scam lawyers who take a percentage of the winnings, that we don't charge the client ANYTHING EVER.

The way I figure it is, the person trying to sue someone because it is raining AND the lawyer who clogs up the courts with spurious lawsuits both deserve the agravation.

I have never had one of those really funny ones...

But when I was a kid our number must have been similar to the local veterinarian's, because people kept calling and asking for him.

Now that I live in a university residence, we all have four-digit extentions that require no exchange. One night I got several calls from some drunk girls asking for someone else. I could understand getting the same wrong number twice, as someone might redial a wrong number thinking they just pressed the wrong button, but why would anyone dial the same number for a third (Or fourth) time?

On the other end, I once had an urgent call to make to someone. As soon as the person answered (She had a similar voice to the person I was calling), I started spouting off these directions. I felt awfully silly when the person on the line interrupted to tell me I had the wrong number.

The way I figure it is, the person trying to sue someone because it is raining AND the lawyer who clogs up the courts with spurious lawsuits both deserve the agravation.


Yay for you! 'Bout time someone gave them their come uppance!

not really getting called by mistake..but once i offered my services as a manwhore to a telemarketer once..they never called again :)

Oooh, for about three years, people called my parents house looking for Theresa, but there's no one by that name there. So my mother started asking them for the number they had dialed and sure enough, it WAS our number. Well, looking into it, our number had never been used before we got it, it was one of the first in a new numbering system, so we couldn't figure it out. EVENTUALLY, we found out that the people calling were indeed calling a local number, which was ours, from our own hometown, but Theresa was living just outside the area (ie, separated by a fence and not much more), and had a different area code prefix which she had conveniently forgotten to give to people.

Another story, a friend of mine started getting random calls to her cell phone from people wanting to leave messages for someone called Suzanne or something similar. It went on for nearly two weeks when she managed to catch someone, and asked them what the hell was going on. Turns out that this Suzanne had turned on call forwarding on her landline and redirected her calls to her cellphone while she was away on holiday abroad so that she could keep in touch with her friends at home, and had dialled in the wrong number. My friend got so pissed that she called the phone company and got them to cancel the call forwarding service.

not really getting called by mistake..but once i offered my services as a manwhore to a telemarketer once..they never called again :)
In that line of thinking....I always tell them that I am sitting talking to them in the nude....they soon hang up!

Once, while being pestered continuously day after day by a guy/company trying to sell me something, I answered a call, to find it was them again, so I said 'sorry, I don't speak English'. Cue moment of utter confusion on other end before I hang up, laughing my arse off

Once, while being pestered continuously day after day by a guy/company trying to sell me something, I answered a call, to find it was them again, so I said 'sorry, I don't speak English'. Cue moment of utter confusion on other end before I hang up, laughing my arse off
:D Oh, I'm going to have to try that one!

The remarkable thing is that people refuse to believe they could make a mistake and prefer to believe that you are somehow on the wrong phone.

I used to take lots of calls intended for a bakery. Normally people would apologise and I would say it was quite alright. Sometimes they would not believe me and I would take their order and promise it would be on time.

Well my number used to be only 1 digit different from an area Pizza Hut's number and so I got calls all the time wanting to order a Pizza. Sometimes I just told them they had a wrong number and hung up. On occassions where I was feeling "frisky" or was fed up with the calls though I would take the order and repeat it back like a real Pizza Hut guy and then tell them that the total for the order would be $450.00 plus a $500.00 delivery charge if they wanted it delivered and delivery would take about 3-4 hours. When they protested I would tell them that since they had called me at home and not a real Pizza Hut I was free to charge whatever I wanted but they were free to cancel the order if they so chose and more than welcome to call a Pizza Hut instead since Pizza Hut's stuff was cheaper. On other occassions I would take the order and quote a proper price of like $15.98 or some such and then just hang up knowing that in about 1 hour they're going to be calling the real Pizza Hut demanding to know where their pizza was.

Apparently some guy named neil gave out my number to all of his friends, so they all called me in the middle of the night and left very strange messages pertaining to some sort of a deal that was about to go down. anyways, I got really pissed off and called them one day, this is how the conversation went:

Me:Hey could I speak with Rob
Some chick:Just a sec
Rob:Hey Rob here
Me:This is neil
Rob: Havent talked to you in a long time
Me: Ya, Im ready for that deal
Rob: ok meet me at subway on centre
Me: How big is it?
Rob: Its big
Me: Ill be there
*I hang up

3 hours later*rob calls me

Rob: hey neil
Me:hey
Rob: where the f**k are you.
Me: a party
Rob: get your @$$ down here and than you can go back to the party and sell some of this $*!t to them
Me:Im sorry we cant be lovers anymore
Rob: wha??
Me: all these nights have left me needing a new partner
Rob:what the h**l you talking about
Me:you know what im talking about

Strangest wrong number experience of my life

Most confusing phone call I've ever received was received at four in the morning in my dorm room. I was asleep, as was my roommate, and the phone rang. I sleep very light, so I was up and ready to get it right off, the conversation begins:

Me: Hello?
Other Dude: Is Craig there?
Me: No, dude.
OD: No, he is there, put him on.
Me: Dude, there's no one named Craig here.
OD: I know Craig is there.
Me: No, he isn't.
OD: *angry*Yes he is there, put him on right fucking now!
Me: Dude, there's nobody named fucking Craig here, you got that?
OD: *very angry* Don't fucking swear at me, I know Craig's there, put him on right now. I want the money he owes me right fucking now.
Me: Dude, shut the fuck up.
*hangs up*