Let me repeat the answer for you...

[MisseLaneius]

Not so much of a sucky customer as an oddity.

Our landline phone at my house is used rarely. We all use our mobile phones and so I don't know the number of the landline at all - seeing as I'm rarely home, and always have my mobile with me, its pointless giving it out as a contact number.

Home phone rings - I answer it, knowing that its probably going to be a telemarketer of some sort.

ML = Me
SC = Strange Caller

Me - MisseLaneius speaking.
SC - Hi. Can you tell me the phone number that I've just called?
Me - No. I don't know the number, I'm sorry.
SC - I'll repeat the question for you. Can you tell me what this telephone number is?
Me - Let me repeat the answer for you - I do not know what this telephone number is.
SC hangs up.

Now, I'm still dicey about the whole thing - after all, if he called my number, he'd have to have a record of what number it was. And is it so hard to believe that I don't know my landline telephone number? After I very explicitly said so? Or am I some kind of freaky non-number-knowing personage?

[BookstoreEscapee]

Heh, I don't know the landline number at my apartment, either. Actually, I do know the last 4 digits cuz they're the same as the HR number at work (which at one point I had to call often enough that I will remember it even when I am old and senile and don't recognize my own face in the mirror), but I can never remember the first 3. (When I do need to give it to someone I always have to look it up in my cell phone.)

Besides, that guy doesn't know that you're not a visitor who just happened to answer the phone or something like that.

[Shadowwalker]

if it was at home I would've just hung up on that guy when he was being rude to you. you don't have to take that shit at home.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I'm wondering if the guy was checking up on his wife or something, and hit redial trying to figure out who she's been talking to...that's a scary kind of thought...

[Dave1982]

SC - I'll repeat the question for you. Can you tell me what this telephone number is?


"The number is whatever YOU just dialed, dumbass." *click*

[Boozy]

My first thought was wrong number and they needed to know if they mis-dialed or just flat-out have the wrong number.

But then it should have gone like this:

"Hi is So-and-So there please?"
"No, I'm afraid you have the wrong number."
"Oh! Is this 555-5555?"
"No, this is 555-5556." (Or in the OP's case, "I'm not sure exactly, I only know there is no So-and-So here.")
"Sorry about that. Thanks."

So if this person thought that they reached the wrong number, they should have just said so instead of being so pushy.

[donruss]

This comes up more often than you would think. I have people call me at my house or on my cell that act in a similar way. Just yesterday I had someone call me on my cell and this is what followed:

Me: "Hello"

DT (Dumb Twit): "Who is this"?

Me: "Excuse me, you called me, who ARE you"?

DT: "You don't have to be so rude about it"!
<hangup>

Fail on so many levels. First you call me and then ask who I am.:headscratch:
Second, when I ask who you are you get all offended and third, you get rude in return with me. :wtf:

[MadMike]

I have removed the comments where people were sniping at each other and arguing over the proper placement of this post, and am moving it to OT.

We do not attack each other here, and in the future, if you think a post is in the wrong place, use the report button instead of starting an argument over it.

And a big thanks to the one person who apparently does know how to use the report button.

[Knightmare]

There's a report button? Where? Why isn't it a giant, red flashing button that's easy to see? I can't find it, even though I know there is one. :D

Back on topic

That dude was a douche. Or woman. Either way, sucky.

[ArcticChicken]

You're not alone, I don't know ANY phone numbers anymore, they're all in my cell phone. I keep thinking I should copy them out someplace else, just in case it gets stolen or I lose is, but I'll never get around to it.

[Juwl]

Me: "Hello"

DT (Dumb Twit): "Who is this"?

"I'm the mail lady, I've been bonking your husband for months now! *evil laughter*"
"What? I was trying to call Pizza Hut."
"Well, then, why the hell'd you ask who this is? You seemed naturally suspicious, so I was just trying to allay your fears and make them real."

[blas87]

The report button is the little ! in the corner by the reply #. It's not just a "dreaded tattling button". You can also report yourself (I have!) for putting a thread in the wrong spot or posting a link that you later discovered didn't work, etc etc.

Back on topic....I have to wonder about people like that. Who calls someone and then proceeds to ask "Um who did I just call?" "Who are you?" unless they are drunk dialing, of course. That's not excusable, but understandable.