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[AriRashkae]

I bet most of them are hitting re-dial instead of dialing the correct number when corrected.

Happened to me best friend, when some "lady" was supposed to be picking up a baby a girl was giving up for adoption. Short version:

BF: "You have the wrong #."

L: "Look, I know it's hard, but it's for the best."

<click>

BF: "You. Have. The. Wrong. Number."

L: "Honey, I'm parked outside your front door. No, I don't."

BF: "You're parked on the lawn of my condo complex? I don't think so."

<click>

<lather, rinse, repeat several time, in different scents>

BF: "You're hitting redial, aren't you?"

L: "........."

BF: "When I hang up, look at the # on the paper and actually dial it. If you redial me one more time, I'm calling the cops for harassment."

<click>

[cinema guy]

Say this~

You: "Hawkins, Hawkins... Oh... right. I'm terribly sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, sir; but, well, there were complications. Your wife is dead."
Him: "...WHAT?! But, but--"
...

You: "There is some good news, though."
Him: *sniff* "...what?"
You: "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance... AND THIS IS A WRONG NUMBER YOU TIT!"

That is completely and utterly evil. I love it!

[Boozy]

That is completely and utterly evil. I love it!

Amusing to joke about, perhaps, but not at all amusing to actually do it.

I understand that no one here would, of course.

[Kirachan]

my parent's house phone is one number away from the hospital, so i feel your pain. though its been happening a lot less than it used to, maybe the hospital changed their number? ah well, anyway the other night i got a call at 4 o'clock in the morning, i thought it was a friend of mine out of state (was too sleepy to notice the local area code) so i said " hello?" and the teenage boy on the other end started a conversation, i said "why are you calling me at 4am?" he quickly hung up, no apology, nothing, so i called back (i was sleepy and mad) and some old lady answered, she was pissed too, confused the hell out of me. i guess her grandson was making some late night calls, gotta wonder why he didn't answer the phone when it rang, he was obviously awake with phone in hand.

[Dilorenzo]

When I worked for the Paging company, I got call for a broken lift for X brand lifts on the Y brand line. We did both companies, but I couldn't help the person by saying "oh, I also do X brand," as I had to pretend to be Y brand.

2 minutes later they called on the correct line.

Amusing part? Absolutely no similarity in the numbers.

[marasbaras]

"Bobs Crematorium, you kill 'em we grill 'em"

I used to answer

"Joe's Morgue ... you stab 'em, we slab 'em."

[Gerrinson]

We used to answer as *cue Mexican accent* 'Paco's Tacos, Paco speaking!'

We even had the one guy (who had the wrong number) order tacos. Unfortunately, the address we gave him for pickup was the entrance to the psych ward. Wonder how that worked out for him...

[Meegz]

We used to answer as *cue Mexican accent* 'Paco's Tacos, Paco speaking!'

We even had the one guy (who had the wrong number) order tacos. Unfortunately, the address we gave him for pickup was the entrance to the psych ward. Wonder how that worked out for him...

Oh god thats hilarious


As for me, my phone number WAS the same as a branch office of Chase Manhatten bank in the same state, only you had to dial 1-800. Of course either people weren't dialing 1-800. They were dialing the state area code. Our answering machine was "This is the blahblah RESIDENCE.." and people would still leave their account information, their social security number, the works. Or if the phone rang and we answered "hello?" they'd go off. What banks answer with just a hello anyways?

Good for those people that we weren't malicious and identity stealers.
And my family had that number for like, 20some years. They never wanted to change it

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I've been known to tell callers "Dave's not here" in Cheech and Chong fashion whenever somebody calls the breakroom looking for somebody who isn't there.

I did it once when we actually did have a Dave working at the store.

[repsac]

I've pulled a few myself. Usually after the person had called a few times and wouldn't listen to "wrong number."

Of them, my favorite are:

City Morgue, Richard Hertz speaking...

Benjamin Meat Packing, Two hundred hours without a lost finger, Richard Hertz speaking how can I help you?

Kitty Kat Club, (whatever day it is) are two for the price of one. Buy one lap dance, get your second one free...

[blas]

When I was being plagued by the ladies calling me, I was so tempted to change my voicemail to "Thank you for calling Dominos, we are proud to be your local fast, friendly pizzaria.....please hold for the next available employee to take your order." I was certain if I did that, I'd check my voicemail and hear "Hello? Hello? I'm looking for a Mommy Blas.." or "Yes, Mommy Blas? This is Gretta, please give me a call back as soon as possible." Just considering how ignorant they were of my own voicemail....

Unfortunately I never did do it......and I had some really, really dumb friends at the time, so you can only imagine how confused they would have gotten.

[freeatlast]

The telephone number given to me when I set up my phone service had been completely out of service for a full year before being assigned to me. Immediately, I began receiving messages for a Jason and an Erica. They each had previously had this number at different times. I even received a message for Erica from the apartment complex she is currently living in which is in a different city. Because the message just said that because of a problem with the air conditioning condenser they had turned it off, I called them back because it seemed like it came from my apartment complex. When I called them, it turned out that the message was not from me. I told them that she had not had this number for at least a year and to obtain her current number from her. I finally recorded a new outgoing message saying "Hi - you have reached the ******* residence. Please leave a message. If you are calling for someone whose last name is not *******, do not leave a message as you have a wrong number." People continued to leave messages for Jason and for Erica. It seems that Erica does not make her student loan payments, as her creditor continued to call me every month. Several times, I was home and answered the call. I informed them that this was no longer her number and they would promise to discontinue calling. Then next month they would leave additional messages. On the other hand, my daughter thought the outgoing message was terribly funny. She would call and tell me to hang up and not answer the phone when she called back so that her friends could hear how mean I sounded in the outgoing message.

[Evil Queen]

For the longest time I was plagued with some Twit looking for her boyfriend, Bruce. (AKA Muffin) Always, I would have just missed the call when I turned my phone on and one day I finally got Mrs. Twit on the line. I told her she had the wrong number, she apologized and hung up. But the calls continued to come through.

Finally, I changed my Voice Mail to the following (imagin the girliest voice I could muster):

"Hi! *giggle* Thanks for calling Bruce! I'm not in right now *gigglegiggle* Please leave a message after the tone!"

The calls stopped.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

City Morgue, Richard Hertz speaking...

Benjamin Meat Packing, Two hundred hours without a lost finger, Richard Hertz speaking how can I help you?

My personal variation on this theme:

"(Name of city I live in) men's clinic, specialists in the treatment of priapism, Richard Hertz speaking."

Why yes, I have done it before. Why do you ask?