[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Strangest wrong number call? (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 8/3/2008 9:54:35 PM EDT
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What is the strangest thing you have heard on the phone when making or recieving a wrong number call? Years ago I use to have hispanic people calling and asking for a guy named "Cartoon" |
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for about a week straight, i had the same guy call mea t the same time and ask me the same question. he eventually got it through his head that the person he was looking for was at a different number. i don't know why i get so many wrong numbers, my cell phone number is, to me, at least, not that hard to fuck up. |
What was the question? |
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I got calls at 3:15 in the morning for some guy named Jim. I have no idea who the fuck Jim was, but they kept calling for a few days. Finally dawned on them that I was not Jim nor had any association with them. At work, our 800 number has a 8 in it, and a pharmacy shares an almost identical number, but has a 6 in it - and constantly getting calls about people wanting to renew their pharmacy. I had one old guy who I politely told him he had the wrong number he began screaming at me how he did not dial the wrong number and I was being an asshole and to renew his prescription. |
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I had an old lady call one time and ask for a guy named Tim. Conversation went like this Me: Hello? Old Lady: Is Tim there? Me: No, there is no Tim at this number. OL: Oh, Im sorry for bothering you. Me: Its ok, no problem OL: So how are you doing? ME: What? Me? Im good...........  OL: Thats good. Hows the weather? Me: Its nice  .OL: How are the kids? Me: I dont have kids. Ummmm. I got to go now. OL: Ok bye Me: Bye I could tell this was probably a crazy 80 year old lady, funny as hell tho. |
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I heard that Willie Brown got a strange phone call once. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/12/MN229389.DTL I still dial wrong numbers occasionally, as I still use a rotary dial desk phone for conversations due to its good sound quality. |
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Not a phone call, but I had a chick text message my phone by accident. SHe was pissed off at her ex, and I at first was like WTF?? I didn't do anything to you.. who the hell ARE you? She was quite emabrrased, and we actually started to text each other, then talked on the phone.... and then weagreed to meet. Had coffee, but no sparks, so we parted ways after a good laugh... |
Reminds me of Scooter's roofin' |
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I had a series of text messages from a guy who thought i was his girlfriend's friend. i ended up stringing him a long for a while. i do not remember quite how it started but here goes. Him: Has my girlfriend been seeing anyone else? Me: just that guy she was talking with at the party Him: who Me: the taller guy, i think his name was matt Him: Did she have sex with him? Me: sorry dude i was just messing with you. i have no idea what you are talking about. i am not (girls name) Him: Don't say that (girl's name), i am a player and blah blah blah Me: no really dude stop texting me it's getting annoying (i had been getting random texts from him for the past few weeks) He ends up calling me and getting my voicemail. i have not heard from him since. However, one week later i get a call from his girlfriend asking for her friend. i ended up just saying wrong number and she hung up. My Grandpa also did something similar to some one. A girl (i will call her jane) called for a guy (mike) Jane: Hi is mike there? Grandpa: no he is out with stacey Jane: Stacey so and so? Grandpa: yep Jane: when he gets back tell him its OVER!!! *click* Wrecking relationships runs in the family |
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I'm a preacher. One night my phone rang and someone immediatly starting talking to my wife (now ex) about their problems. Not wanting to be rude and interrupt and not wanting to be embarassed and admit she didn't know who they were she let them talk. Occassionaly she would give basic common sense advice. 30 minutes later, they figured out it was a wrong number. She just thought it was someone from the church. |
LOL I had a very boring conversation with my sister's purse once. Something in her purse hit the speed dial for my phone number and all I heard was some rustling. On another note, I always try to keep the humor in a situation. Some lady called me late at night once; I'd just gone to bed so I wasn't too p.o'd about her calling. She was very courteous and apologetic, so I told her, "You have a cute voice. Why not meet for coffee?" She said she was about twice my age and married, so we parted friends. |
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On my answering machine I once found the following message (the speakers were drunk and hard to understand, but this is how I remember it.) Guy #1: Hey *so-and-so* Guy #2: What? Guy #1: Hey, I got 'im on the phone right now. Guy #2: What d'ya wanna tell 'im? Guy #1 and #2: *Incoherent mumbling* *end of message* |
I had some gay booty call at 3:00 in the morning once. When I told them it was a wrong number, they wanted to know what I was doing. I hung up and didn't answer when they called back.  My brother in law gets calls for the House of Blues all the time. Usually he'll just tell them it's a wrong number, but if they're dicks or he's had a lot of calls lately he'll start taking reservations and telling them concerts are sold out. |
| Had someone call asking for someone with my first name. I identified myself as him. They asked how my family and myself were and assorted other small talk. I didn't want to seem rude and tell them I had no idea who they were so I just kind of went along. After another couple of minutes I couldn't stand it any longer and asked what the last name of the person they were calling was. When they told me it became clear that I had been talking to a wrong number all that time. |
Had lots - Collect call from jails - one was a call from a jealous guy who found my number in his wife's car - turned out he used her car to come to my place for poker and left my number in there. I always kid him about it when U see him. Not a wrong number - but funny just the same. |
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One morning about 0200 I get a call... sounded like a young teenage girl trying to prank me... went like this: Kid: Hey is Debbie there (giggle giggle giggle) Me: HUH? WHAT Kid: Is your refrigeratior running? Me: WHAT? What the hell? Kid: Is Johnny there? Me: Wait.... are you trying to prank me? Kid; (giggles) Me: No no no no.. YOU ARE DOING IT ALL WRONG!!!! Kid: Huh? Me: Get a paper and pen and start taking notes (Now you start hearing a bunch of kids in the background and one kid saying "Holy crap this guy is cool") I go off into a 20 minute lecture and lesson on HOW a proper prank phone call is to be placed ESPECIALLY at 0200 At the end of it all I had these kids laughing and one kid saying "Mister, I am so glad we got to talking to you tonight!!" I said:"Good! now take your newfound knowledge and go have fun... just dont try it on me... got it?" They said "YOU BET!!! THANKS!!!!" 
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OH!!! Forgot about this one. Back in the house where I grew up. My home number was one digit off from a very popular neighborhood restaurant. Very popular that to get reservations, you had to book it AT LEAST 2 weeks out. We always told the people who called ..."Nah, sorry you have the wrong number, replace the last number with a 4 instead of a 5" One day, the conversation goes like this (restaurant name is changed of course) Me: Hello? Dickhead: Is that the way you answer the phone? Me: Excuse me? Dickhead: I SAID is that the way you answer the phone? Me: I'm sorry? Dickhead: You should be!!! this is Mo's restaurant RIGHT? Me: Oh yes it is, I am sorry what can I do for you sir? Dickhead: Yeah, I got a VERY special evening planned this weekend and I want your best table by the window if possible Saturday night. Me: Sure, and for how many sir? Dickhead: 4 Me: You got it and for what time? Dickhead: 6:00 (yeah right... table for 6 on a Saturday night meant a two hour wait around the block if you were lucky) Me: Yes sir, and I apologize for my answering in an unprofessional manner Dickhead: Well you better straighten that out real quick Me: Yes sir... we will see you 6:00 on Saturday for 4 Dickhead: <click> I sure as hell wanted to go up there with our bikes (I think I was about 16 at the time) and watch the fireworks... When I had him on the phone, I should have offered him a bottle of our finest wine as a token of my apology too just to get this guys anger up... What a dick. |
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How coincidental, I had a funny call over the weekend as well: Me-"Hello?" Woman with chinese or similar accent- "Someone want to talk to you and this time you pay!" I'm thinking WTF? After a momentary pause some kid comes on the line and says: Kid- "Daddy!?!" Immediately I figure this is a wrong number or some sort of scam so hung up and told the wife. She laughed and told me to start using the caller ID. |
Come on, fess up.
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You are awesome. Instant karma. |
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We had a voicemail left at our home phone: Basically, "Omni" called for me (used my name) to tell me that she lost the baby and didn't think we should see each other anymore. Cited not wanting to be part of difficulties between my wife and I (used her name), etc. Our voicemail greeting had our first names on it, so either: 1. Another guy with my first/last name was messing around on the side, kept his home phone secret, and she was going through the phone book. 2. A prank. I've never known a woman named Omni, nor cheated on my wife. Caller ID was "unknown caller." |
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Whenever American Idol has their voting we get a lot of great wrong number voicemails where I work. You see every year American Idol always uses 1-888-436-7xxx for their voting. My company has a block of numbers like this: (Metro Detroit Area Code) 436-6xxx and 436-7xxx. You would be surprised how many people never dial the toll free prefix and just use 436-7xxx. Every night a vote occurs a couple people in my department set up their alternate voice mail message to be something like: "Thanks for voting. Please leave me a message." Hilarity ensues the next morning when there are 38 missed calls received and a dozen messages like: "You are the best <insert Idol's name>" "OMG....u r my #1 r0xor..!" "I am crying just thinking about you." |
That would be a funny prank call! |
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I used to work at a place where one of the lines was a single digit off from the "trouble" line for the electric utility. Depending on our mood and the customer's attitude, we either corrected the error, or gave them something like this: Them: My fucking power's out. Again. Second time this year. Us: [Looking at caller ID] You're calling from the Wampisinger residence, aren't you? Them: Yes Us: Well, listen up, you freeloading cocksucker, pay your fucking bills on time and clean up that nasty-ass yard or we're cutting the juice off permanently. Them: What??? Us: You heard me, asshole. We'll send somebody out when we get damned good and ready. If we feel like it. In the meantime, quit being such a jackass. Them: I'M GOING TO REPORT BLAHBLAHBLAH Us: <click> OR Them: My power's out. Us: Did you forget to feed the meter? Them: What? Us: The electric meter. On the side of the house, or maybe the back porch. When's the last time you put money in it? Them: Uh... Us: Happens all the time. Get a handful of quarters and put 'em in the meter. If that doesn't work, call us back at [a real number for the electric co.] Them: OK. Thanks. Us: Happy to help! |
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I use to have some guy call me once or twice a month at about 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning and ask if I was coming over. It would always sound like a big party in the background. I would always say sure, I was just heading out. He would ask me to bring some beer or ice or whatever and I would say no problem and hang up. Probably happend 6-7 times of 6 monthes..... Oh yeah, and for awhile our phone number ended in 0038 and Arby's ended in 0083. Almost daily I would get home and there would a couple messages, 'Yeah, this is so & so and I am not coming to work today b/c I am sick..' I always wondered who calls there workplace during normal business hours and gets a message like 'Hi, this is Dan12 and I aint home, leave a message' and then continues to leave a message that may make the difference between being sick and getting fired... ~Dan |
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For about a month we continuously got phone calls from the local jail with the message of you have a phone call from "cookie" from the jail do you accept? We always just hung up. My husbands name is very common so we get a lot of mistaken calls but we did have one women who called all the time and didnt believe him when he would say it wasnt him. She would just keep asking if it was him. He would say yes that is my name but I'm not who your looking for. |
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Alright, I just have to post this... It's possibly the most unusual thing that has ever happened to me. I was working in Nashville and needed to contact a guy I knew in Baton Ruge for some information. We hadn't spoken in years, and I needed his number, so I called information. The operator said that there were two numbers for Tommy Jefferson (I'm not using his real name.) She gave me both numbers and I quickly scribbled them down. They were both in the 504 area code (long before the switch to 225) but they had two different prefixes. IIRC one was a 928 and I forget the other one... Well I call the first number (not the 928 number) and no one answered and there was no answering machine. So I call the second number and an elderly woman answers the phone: Her: Hello Me: Hello, is Tommy Jefferson there? Her: (Hesitates) Tommy? No... he's next door... Me: Oh, OK, when will he be home? Her: Well, he lives there. Me: (confused) He lives next door? Her: Yes. Tommy is our next door neighbor. Me: Tommy Jefferson, black curly hair, medium build etc. married to Carla? Her: Yes that's Tommy Jefferson... Me: (very confused) Ok, thank you. Bye-Bye. We hang up and I call information back. Operator: How can I help you? Me: Yes, I called a few minutes ago for a phone number in Baton Rouge, and it seems you gave me a wrong number. Operator: Sorry sir. What is the listing you need? Me: Tommy Jefferson. The operator reads the numbers to me again and guess what happened... I had written the second number down WRONG BY ONE DIGIT! It turns out the first number I called was the Tommy's number, but no one answered. I wrote the second number down incorrectly BUT THAT NUMBER HAPPENED TO BE THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR TO THE PERSON I WAS TRYING TO CONTACT!!!!!!! The line where the prefixes changed was between the the two houses. The odds of that happening are millions-to-one. If I had written any different digit down, in the 928 prefix, I could have called any one of thousands of numbers in the 928 prefix. That one kept me thinking for at least a few days... I hadn't told that story in years. |
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Got some pie from my worng number expereience and money. I got a wrong number call from a lady at age 19..She was looking for someone else but said I hd a cute voice..She was 26 and offered me a job selling alcohol at concerts at the company she owned. We screwed and I worked with her for a few months sellng beer at concerts, meeting famous bands,and hanging for after parites..All she hired was younger, atheletic guys, so more people would come and buy beer.. Heck she had one guy living with her during our little escapade. Met alot of girls during that period when working there. Best time of my life! |
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Dunno if somebody cloned my pager number or not (before I had a cell), but just before I got rid of it, I started getting calls from the southern suburbs. (I'm way up by the state line) I'd call back, and they'd ask for Jawon, or Tyrone, or whoever. I even verified the number and area code they'd dialed, and it was mine. Sometimes they'd include "911". They were usually very apologetic, but I finally got PO'd enough after a few months and increasing frequency that I called them back one saturday after yet another "911" page and put on my "official" voice. "Hello" "Tango7" "Huh? Who? "I just received a page to this number. Do you have an incident? Who's the Investigating Officer in Charge?" "Whatchu talkin' about?" "Is this 708-555-1212?" "Yeah..." "I'm an investigator for the City. I just received a 9-1-1 page on my City issued pager. That normally means that there's a hazardous chemical spill or bomb went off. Do you have an emergency or an incident to report?" "HUH? NO! I was trying to get ahold of D'shaun" "<sigh> OK. May I ask which number you called?" They relayed back my pager number. "Well, I hate to tell you this, but I've had the same pager number for over ten years now. Either somebody cloned it or they gave you the wrong number. I suggest you tell them to get another number or stop giving this one out, because if I get any more pages, I'll contact a local officer and have them look into this." "Nononono that's OK. Sorry officer." "Thank you. Have a good day." <click> Another time I was placing a return call to a customer of the software company I worked for. I was talking with a woman who asked me to wait a minute and then I heard the sounds of a fight, and the phone hung up. I called the local PD for a well-being check but never heard back or followed up. |
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The police that want donations for families of police affected by something or another.. I now get calls from 3 different agencies because I donate to 1. I got a call once from someone wanting to buy drugs. Wrong number but I played with them using my ghetto undercover voice. |
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Not phone calls, but.... 1) I am kept routinely abreast on any upper management openings for a certain department store based in Chicago. I'm amazed that the person who keeps sending these hasn't figured out she has the wrong external address... I'm almost tempted to actually apply for one, but I don't want to live in Chicago. 2) I don't know WTF the last person who had the phone number that is now my federal government issued BlackBerry did with their time, but I am routinely contacted by collections agencies, law firms, and (my favorite) text messages like this:
_MaH |
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Shortly after college and starting work, I got a phone call at 2 in the morning from a lady in Switzerland and only spoke German. What's the chances of calling a wrong number in the US and having to have the luck of another native German speaker pick up? I nicely pointed out that she had the wrong number and sent her on her merry way... |
I had an elderly and somewhat senile Vietnamese lady call quite late from New York City on and off for three years. I eventually wound up speaking to one of her grandchildren who was very nice and I learned to just ask for Heather when I got the old lady on the phone chattering to me in Vietnamese. Oddly (or perhaps not, given the ex-ARVN Catholic Vietnamese population in Houston) I know her son socially. I have no idea how she got my cell phone number. |
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I got this call back in the days before caller ID: Me = Me (duh) DH = Dickhead who called Me: "Hello?" DH: "Let me talk to Jenny, RIGHT NOW!" Me: "Who?" DH: "Jenny, ASSHOLE!" Me: "I think you have the wrong number." DH: "BULLSHIT. You better put her on the phone, RIGHT NOW!!!" Me: (starting to get pissed) "Look, you have the wrong number!" DH: "Don't you lie to me, asshole. I KNOW she's there." Me: (OK, enough of this shit) "OK, you got me. I have the bitch spreadeagled nekkid in the bedroom, and as soon as I hang up, I am going back to fucking her good and proper!" DH: "....YOU DIRTY" Me: (cutting him off) "AND, if you think you're man enough, come over here and I will WHIP YOUR ASS!!!" (CLICK!) My wife was giving me the strangest look while that was going on. I knew the silly bastard had no clue who he was talking to. I watched the news for a couple of days, but we had no murders reported. 
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