Wrong number

[sprinks]

I've had many a call or text from a wrong number, and I've dialled a few myself. Today some random number called me and I anwered, only there was merely noise and no talking so I hung up. Then, the same number texted me, saying that I didn't sound like Rachel. The conversation got a bit weird after a while so I stopped replying. I think that's the first time I've actually had quite a bit of a conversation with someone from a wrong number. Have any of you had any strange/funny experiences with people calling the wrong number or you calling the wrong number?

[Niamh]

I hate it when poeple dont put their phones on lock and they call you from their bags or pockets. All you can hear is muffled traffic and keys dangling.
Get wrong no.s all the time. Its funny when its a house call and they are looking for a business. you tell them they have the wrong no. and they go " are you sure?"

[optimisticnad]

I hate it when poeple dont put their phones on lock and they call you from their bags or pockets. All you can hear is muffled traffic and keys dangling.
Get wrong no.s all the time. Its funny when its a house call and they are looking for a business. you tell them they have the wrong no. and they go " are you sure?"

Sounds like the residence of Lady Bucket - sorry, that's 'Bou-quet' I'm not sure if you'll understand this joke...

[papayahed]

Around christmas time I texted a complete stranger: "Do you still want feet pajamas?" They responded back with "Who are you?" and sent back a smart *** reply because I thought it was my cousin being stupid. The stranger then called and that's when I realized my cousin didn't have that number any longer.

[oopsycandy]

lol I got a txt that said 'don't forget its your turn to bath mom tngt' I was laughing so much at the thought I couldnt reply.

[Niamh]

Sounds like the residence of Lady Bucket - sorry, that's 'Bou-quet' I'm not sure if you'll understand this joke...

Of course i get it! I grew up watching keeping up appearance!

[mmaria]

Once my phone rang and I answered and the voice said «Please, would you tell me when the train to this and that place is departing?» I said, «I don't know.» And the voice yelled, «Who knows, then?» I said, «Probably the information office at the railway station.» And the vioce said, «Isn't it the railway information office?» I said, «No, it isn't» And the voice said very angrily, «But, why are you answering the call, then?» And he cut the connection.
It was really very funny because, somehow, I was sure that the man was not just trying to make a joke.

[maraki16]

well, someone used to call me and said he was a friend of mine, but i did not know him. he did not tell me his name, but he insisted he was a friend. but still, he said i did not know him. then he gave me a description of his appearence: tall, with muscles and brown eyes. and then he told me:so, what do you say? when are we going to go on a date? ha? he kept annoying me for .....well, i think more than a week. maybe for about a month several times a day. it was awful. i had to close my mobile. then one day, after many days, i opened it and he called. i pretended to be someone else. he was concerned and asked 'me', if i knew if this was mary's number, and if i was ok haha! of course i said no, i am not mary, i don't know her....you must have called a wrong number. he never called again...lucky me!

[manolia]

I've had many a call or text from a wrong number, and I've dialled a few myself. Today some random number called me and I anwered, only there was merely noise and no talking so I hung up. Then, the same number texted me, saying that I didn't sound like Rachel. The conversation got a bit weird after a while so I stopped replying. I think that's the first time I've actually had quite a bit of a conversation with someone from a wrong number. Have any of you had any strange/funny experiences with people calling the wrong number or you calling the wrong number?

Yeah..at my office. I have this number for three years now and there are still people calling me and asking all sorts of things..i wonder whom the number belonged to and what he/she did for a living (i have some ideas about that). I grew really suspicious when a guy called a while ago and persisted on meeting me because he liked my voice

[Madhuri]

When I changed my number a few months back, I would get calls from people who were looking for some girl. I realised that probably my number belonged to her earlier, so I told them that it's not her. But one particular guy, simply would not listen.....he would call me some 20-30 times a day I was fed up of repeating the same thing again and again. He then started sending me love messages (he still didnt believe that I wasnt the girl)....along with making missed calls. I ignored, thinking he would slowly realise....But no...then he started sending me dirty messages.....by this time it was already a month...and I was fed up....I called up the service providers asking them to block that number....and all they said they couldnt block a single number... and they advised me to go to the police.... The police here is of no use....they would increase my troubles even more..... Its been seven months of ignoring..... and finally he doesnt call me.... It was a nightmare...

[Wilde woman]

My brother got a cell phone a couple years ago when he first went away to college and he said he repeatedly got phone calls for some guy named "Vernon". Apparently this Vernon was in some deep trouble because every time my brother picked up, it would be someone demanding money or an automated message summoning "Vernon" to court.

I recommended he change his number.

[sprinks]

some of those are funny . The scary weird ones wouldn't be so nice though

I grew really suspicious when a guy called a while ago and persisted on meeting me because he liked my voice

That's a little like the one I had yesterday! When I answered there was just noise and I said "hello?" but got no response. Then the guy texted me and said I sounded cute. We eventually worked out that I wasn't who he was looking for, or any relative of hers, but then he started asking other questions and although he said he lives in Sydney... I was still a little freaked out.

[Lily Adams]

Around christmas time I texted a complete stranger: "Do you still want feet pajamas?" They responded back with "Who are you?" and sent back a smart *** reply because I thought it was my cousin being stupid. The stranger then called and that's when I realized my cousin didn't have that number any longer.

I've had many a call or text from a wrong number, and I've dialled a few myself. Today some random number called me and I anwered, only there was merely noise and no talking so I hung up. Then, the same number texted me, saying that I didn't sound like Rachel. The conversation got a bit weird after a while so I stopped replying. I think that's the first time I've actually had quite a bit of a conversation with someone from a wrong number. Have any of you had any strange/funny experiences with people calling the wrong number or you calling the wrong number?

lol I got a txt that said 'don't forget its your turn to bath mom tngt' I was laughing so much at the thought I couldnt reply.

These made me laugh really hard.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Have any of you had any strange/funny experiences with people calling the wrong number or you calling the wrong number?

Absolutely! I have a sort of running gag going on with my cell phone at work: Apparently my number has been in use before... By somebody in sales of all possible positions, in a food industry company. He obviously quit years ago, but I still get calls from people wanting to put in an order for a food shipment: I usually answer something like:

- Sorry, I can offer nothing edible. Would you like a couple of tonnes of stainless steel instead?

That usually produces a Duuuuh, what???? kind of reply.

/Claes

[kasie]

Funny wrong numbers calls: we used to have the same number as a local security company in the next town - we often got their calls and when we explained the caller needed to re-dial and use the long distance dialling code for that town, we sometimes got profuse apologies or else indignant claims that the caller had already done that/ didn't need to do that/ we were the wrong people answering. Sometimes however they didn't check they were through to the firm they though they were calling and launched straight into their request: on one occasion my husband could not get a word in edgeways to explain to the manager of a local supermarket that he could not send a security van to the back door of the store to collect the weekend takings on Monday instead of Tuesday as usual. He (my OH) spent the weekend working out where he could hire a dark blue van, get himself a blue boilersuit and crash helmet - we already had the alsation who would have been very happy to sit in the back and bark - and turn up as instructed at 10 o'clock Monday morning and take their cash to a 'safe' place. Another time I was asked in a whisper if I had a dog; how did he know about my new puppy, I wondered, but whispered back 'Yes'. Could the caller have a dog for three weeks at a building site at X? Me, realising at last what the call was about, but still whispering for some reason: 'She's only four months old, I wasn't thinking of sending her out to work just yet....'

Not so funny wrong numbers: well, not wrong numbers really, but cold calls: we used to get regular calls at work from an investment company somewhere in USA (sorry to all American readers) - the caller, always the same man, wanted to speak to my husband who was listed as MD for the company but no matter how many times he told the caller sometimes politely, sometimes in imaginatively impolite terms, that we had no money to invest and if we had, we'd be investing in the development of our own business, the man still called back in six or eight weeks. On several occasions I offered to take messages, only to have the phone put down on me. On another occasion he asked to speak to someone who had financial authority in the company and I said, 'You can talk to me, I'm a director,' only to be told, 'We don't talk to women'. But on one occasion when I told him my husband was not in the office, this **** said, 'You're lying, I know he's there.' Me: 'Oh, and how do you know that?' 'Because I've just spoken to him on his mobile and he said he would be back in the office by half past four.' Me, spluttering with laughter, 'That was clever of you - he hasn't got a mobile.' 'Oh, yes, he has, you don't know about it.' Me, still spluttering, 'How was he managing to use this phantom phone when he's in hospital, wired up to heart monitors, and mobile phones, real or imaginary, are totally banned?' Phone was slammed down. But perhaps the worst of all was when he called and without thinking, because I had been making similar calls or answering letters all week in these words, I replied, 'I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but Mr C passed away last month.' Did the ******* offer condolences? Did he apologise for the call? No, he just put the phone down. (No, we could not trace the calls, as they very well knew, because you couldn't in those days trace international calls on the British system.) Grrr.