Ahh the joys of wrong numbers

[Bluenomi]

I just had the following conversation:

Me: fab as always
SC: Poor confused man

Me: Myoffice, Bluenomi speaking
SC: Bluenomi was it? I was after Anne, sorry Chris, ohhh, yeah Chris, mumble, mumble.
Me: I'm sorry who were you after?
SC: Chris, I might try another number
Me: We don't have anyone by that name here. We you after Myoffice?
SC: I don't know!

Ahhh what fun I could have had. Poor guy had no idea. It really did sound like he was trying random numbers until he got who he wanted!

[SpyOne]

Long ago, before the internet and fabulous online phone books, my brother got a call that went basicly as follows:

"Hello, you don't know me but my name is John Smith and I am calling from France. I have a friend named Bob Jones who lives in your town, but I cannot remember his phone number, and the French Operator cannot connect me to your local directory assistance as I don't know that number either (It wasn't always 411 everywhere). Do you have a phone book?"
So, my brother looked up the number for him.

I kinda miss those days: the occasional random human experience. And people were generally polite on the phone.

[rerant]

Ahhh what fun I could have had. Poor guy had no idea. It really did sound like he was trying random numbers until he got who he wanted!

I sort of did something like that last weekend.
I woke up from a birthday night and couldn't locate any of my belongings so I figured I would call my friend who was with me and ask her if she knew what I did with my stuff.
But since my cell phone was one of the things I couldn't find I was trying to get her number from (still slightly drunken) memory.
Now, the last four numbers of both her her cell number and home number are the same, with the first three, as well as the area code, being different.
I was calling the cell area code with the full home number, then the home area code with the cell number, then some ridiculous combination of both before I finally gave up and called work (we work together) and had them give me her number because, quote, "I'm too stupid to use my brain..remembering... thing..."
Yeah I was still VERY out of it.