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oogyda

Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #30 on: September 24, 2018, 01:31:33 pm »
We had several with our last landline.

We were near a large city that had a different area code.  Except for the area code, our number was the same as the family waiting room at large city's Children's Hospital.  I always explained that and gave callers the correct area code.

For the first 1 1/2 years, we would get robo calls from the local high school telling us our son "Jeff" was absent from one or more classes that day.  I called to explain and was told they could not remove the number without parental consent.  Okay, I get it.  When I saw calls from that number, I would answer and hang up right away.  Then we got a call from Jeff's probation officer who was assigned to the school.  After I convinced him that we don't have a son and we don't have a student in the district, I explained the ongoing situation.  He was a very nice person and said he would be able to fix that for us.  He must have because we never again heard from the school.

I was woken at about 2 am by the phone ringing.  The caller told me that my cows were in his yard again and I better come get them cuz they were shi**ing in his yard(there was a lot of swearing involved).  I told him he had a wrong number and hung up.  By the third call, I realized that it was most likely a prank call (there was some laughing and other background sounds and he sounded young), so i told him that isn't a cow shi**ing in his his yard, it's his mother.  Didn't hear from them again.



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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #31 on: September 29, 2018, 11:57:20 am »
Before robocalls became the norm rather than the exception on my landline, I used to enjoy talking to “wrong number” people.  I’d tell them, “well, you dialed the wrong number, and I’m in city/state.  What city were you calling?”   A lot were from out of state, so we’d chat about the weather, the cities/states we lived in (never specifics), and local news.  Mostly nice people, usually off by a digit or the wrong area code.
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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #32 on: October 01, 2018, 05:54:51 am »
I got this one on my landline yesterday.

The phone rings. I notice Caller ID states it is coming from Los Angeles, CA- I live in Florida.

A lady asks in Spanish whether she can speak to “Azalea” (similar name- will state why soon). I tell her she has the wrong number. She apologizes and hangs up. I chuckle. I had company so I did not ask what number she dialed or the sort- but had I been home alone, I would likely have.

I do have a distant relative by the first name of the person the caller asked for. However, we do not have the same surname. Plus she does not live in my state- nor have we ever lived in the same state at the same time. Finally, I doubt somebody all the way from LA would be looking for her specifically, given the fact that she is still a little girl!!!

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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #33 on: March 21, 2020, 12:57:43 pm »
Hadn't gotten one of these in a while, but I did a couple days ago:

My cell phone rings. It shows a New York number. I answer it because I was bored.

Person asks to speak to Anne Marie.

I tell them it is the wrong number.

Then the person asks if this is Circle K. I said no. Person hangs up.

I looked up the local Circle K's. None of them have phone numbers anywhere near close to mine.

I also looked up the New York area codes. None of them are just one digit away from mine either. From the way the person asked, it seems they were calling a work number instead of a personal cell phone.

Gave me a much needed laugh!!!
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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #34 on: March 21, 2020, 03:03:42 pm »
I married a guy I'd met online. We got married in the States and moved back to my home country of New Zealand. He'd only been in the country 2 weeks and we were about to sit down to dinner when the phone rang. He just heard my side of the conversation:

"sorry you have the wrong number"
"oh do you mean *Francis Newton*?"
"their number is 352 ****"
"any time, bye"

The caller had asked for *Francis* and the only person I knew by that name was my best friend's mum. Hubby was blown away.
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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #35 on: March 24, 2020, 07:43:16 pm »
This happened to me several years ago and I posted about it on my FB page. I'm in the US.

Over the course of the last four months or so I've gotten some voicemails from someone that I don't know. He seems to be an elderly gentleman with a thick Cajun accent. Yesterday he left a long voicemail wishing someone a very Merry Christmas. Today, he called again and I actually picked up the phone and was pretty crabby when I told him that he's been calling the wrong number. I said "I don't know who you're trying to reach, but I'm not them". He hesitated and then said, sadly, "But she wrote down the number for me" - and then asked if I was not 575-xxx-xxxx. I realized what had happened. My area code is 757 and the rest of the number matched. I felt bad for being so crabby and I told him that he had the wrong area code (in a much nicer tone of voice). I wished him a Merry Christmas, he did the same and we said goodbye. I hope he was able to reach his friends today. Merry Christmas, everyone.

He called me once more after that and I again reminded him about the area code. I hope he's well.
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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #36 on: March 24, 2020, 11:22:49 pm »
I got one once when I was living in Glasgow Scotland. The caller was very insistent to get a message through Brenda. Wouldn’t believe that I didn’t know her and the message wouldn’t get through. Luckily I had been living there a while, else I wouldn’t have understood his thick accent.

My daughters cell phone number was owned by a computer repair guy in another state, she got a lot of traffic at first.

On another less funny note my husband received an anonymous text which said ‘You dint know me, but I’m having an affair with your partner’. He thought it was hilarious and I reminded him I could never fall in love with someone who couldn’t spell. But I did think it was awful, some people could get into a lot of trouble with a message like that.
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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #37 on: March 25, 2020, 12:12:50 am »
When I lived in another state, I kept getting phone calls for someone with the same last name. It kind of freaked me out when my ex was deployed with the Navy, but I looked in the phone book, and the other family still lived in the area with a different number.

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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #38 on: May 20, 2020, 02:04:02 pm »
Not a wrong number, but an obscene phone call to my mom- my dad was a long distance truck driver. If the phone rang in the middle of the night, it meant he'd been in a wreck. Mom would get up, throw up, and then answer the phone. Every time.

Mid 70's-phone rings at 3 AM. Mom rolls out of bed, throws up, and answers the phone only to be on the receiving end of an obscene phone call. When mom got a chance to get a word in,  she laid into him for at least 5 minutes about how he scared her thinking her husband was hurt, and made her throw up, and woke up her child (me, who was a teenager and had never heard my mom use that language).

She hung up on him by slamming down the phone. It rang again, mom grabbed it, and it was the caller from before, apologizing to her for scaring her.


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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #39 on: May 20, 2020, 04:40:38 pm »
not my story but worth telling. Heard it on a "good old days" kind of TV show from another New England state. This was back in the days when towns still had switchboards, often in the operator's home. Long distance would be station to station and then the operator would connect to the correct person. So the Boston operator rang up the very small town and asked to put through a call to a John Morrill. The small town operator, who was having a bridge game with her friends, answered and said, There's no one in town by that name. Hung up and went back to bridge. Same thing happened a few minutes later, same result. On the third attempt, the small town operator got quite upset and said loudly into the phone, "This is (town name) and we don't have any Morrills here!" Then hung up, turned around and looked at her shocked bridge club.

Also one from an elderly neighbor (in a small town) many years ago. Her parents were living in the house next door (across from me) and when she was a young married, she and her DH lived in NY several hours away. She was going into the hospital for something and wanted to talk to her mother one last time. Again the operators were involved in making the call. The phone rang and rang at her mom's house, no answer. Finally the small town operator broke in and said, "Jane, is that you trying to reach your mom? I just saw her going into the store" (next door to the telephone company) "I'll ring her there." Which she did, much to the amusement of the NY operator.
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Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #40 on: May 24, 2020, 04:40:11 pm »
Our land line is one digit off from the phone number of a local pet hospital.  Over the years we’ve gotten several ‘interesting’ calls.  Here’s my favorite...

ME: Hello?

CALLER: You’re an Aunt!

ME:  Excuse me?

CALLER (sounding quite hurt) :  You asked to be alerted when Fluffy had her kittens. She’s just had four.

ME:  Oh, you want Dr. Fox.  Her number is  XXX-XXYX.  Still, Congratulations to you and Fluffy.

BeagleMommy

Re: Wrong number stories
« Reply #41 on: October 15, 2020, 02:13:10 pm »
My parents' landline is very similar to the local bus line.  Ex:  parents' phone is (570) 123-4567; bus is (570) 123-4657.

They regularly get calls asking if the busses are running on time, etc.  One person just couldn't believe that they were dialing incorrectly.  The final straw came when this person called again during dinner hour.  My dad answered the phone and said "They're running 97 minutes late".  Never heard from them again.

When I was in junior/senior high school my father worked for a heating company and had to be the "on call" person once per month.  Since I was the lightest sleeper in the family, the extension phone was put in my room.  If the call center called dad I would go wake him up so he could take the call.  One morning, around 2 am, the phone rings so I answer it thinking it's the call center.  Here's the conversation:

Me (groggily): Hello?
Person:  WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP AT THIS HOUR???!!!
Me:  Excuse me?  I wasn't awake until you called.
Person:  Is this (rattles off completely different phone number)?
Me:  No!

They hung up.  Not even an apology for waking up a 14-year-old at 2 am.