Get a load of this call I just got

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

From a number in town, or at least this area code:

Me: Hello?
Caller: (with a pronounced lisp) Are you the bitch who made fun of my lisp?
Me: What?
Caller: Are you the bitch who made fun of my lisp?
Me: I don't know you. You have the wrong number.
Caller: Oh, fuck you.

So far, the dumb cuntpickle hasn't redialed. But I'm waiting.

[blas]

Makes me glad all I get are calls for people from church looking for my parents, or the confused idiot Mason who keeps wanting Amanda. Only, I'd love to meet this Amanda girl. She gave him my number as a fake, I assume, or one number off.

[pzychobitch]

cunt pickle? wow, that's a new one! I'm stealing it.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

My number has already been called once by a debt collector looking for somebody else. Fortunately I told them I wasn't who they were looking for and they never called again.

I guess my number must be close to the numbers of some no-goodniks or being handed out as a fake. I dunno. Next time I upgrade my phone I may have it changed.

[dendawg]

From a number in town, or at least this area code:

Me: Hello?
Caller: (with a pronounced lisp) Are you the bitch who made fun of my lisp?
Me: What?
Caller: Are you the bitch who made fun of my lisp?
Me: I don't know you. You have the wrong number.
Caller: Oh, fuck you.
Me: You couldn't afford me, honey!

Added for amusement.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Added for amusement.

If only I had the chance....

I looked up the number (hat tip http://mrnumber.com/) and it was shown as being in my city. They haven't called back. I'm almost sad at this. I have a response all ready to go if they do.

[blas]

I'm going to have to save that link.

I usually just don't answer numbers that I don't recognize (though my phone does have a "city" feature that says what city it comes from, even once showed when my grandparents were calling from Washington, but other times, like with telemarketers and 888/800 numbers, it doesn't say what state) and Google them as soon as I get online next. From there, it usually takes me to some page or another where it'll give you the closest tower that the call came from (if it's from a cell phone) or if it's a landline, it sometimes even shows a map of where the call came from. Some form of reverse phone number lookup site.

[bhskittykatt]

My friend posted on her FB wall that her iPhone wiped all her contacts and for everyone to message her so she could reinput all her contacts...I took the opportunity to troll her with the Cat Facts prank and she said when she tried looking up my number whatever site she used said I was in [podunk city 20 miles from here].

For about a year, I was getting wrong calls. They kept coming in at like 2am. Fortunately with the paper route, that's not an inconvenient time for me, but seriously it was the same people every time, and for months they kept calling my phone trying to reach people who weren't there.

We did have a weird situation with Hubby's phone. When he got it, I programmed BFF's number in there, and he texted her. The response said it wasn't her. I held up my phone to Hubby's and checked and rechecked the number, and it was the right number. So I called BFF. She said she hadn't received any texts. Simultaneously, Hubby is texting this guy who magically has the same number as BFF, area code and everything! It was bizarre and freaky. Since he moved up here though he's able to call BFF and text BFF no problem. Didn't change the contact info or anything.

[Merriweather]

We did have a weird situation with Hubby's phone. When he got it, I programmed BFF's number in there, and he texted her. The response said it wasn't her. I held up my phone to Hubby's and checked and rechecked the number, and it was the right number. So I called BFF. She said she hadn't received any texts. Simultaneously, Hubby is texting this guy who magically has the same number as BFF, area code and everything! It was bizarre and freaky. Since he moved up here though he's able to call BFF and text BFF no problem. Didn't change the contact info or anything.

Moving around for military in pre-cell phone days, we of course had new phone numbers every few years, keeping family and friends up to date could be a challenge. Sometimes more than others. When we moved to West Virginia and got our phone, we were notified by mail a day or two later to disregard the number they gave us at first, the number would now be a different one. We had already given the number to a few people, and had to re-notify them. Found out later what had really happened - they had given us a number that was already in use, we could call out fine, but anyone calling us got the first holder of the phone number. We found that out, and who actually had the number, when we called one friend to give her the changed number, and she exclaimed "aha, so that's why when I called you yesterday I got the city police department".

[Andara Bledin]

We did have a weird situation with Hubby's phone. When he got it, I programmed BFF's number in there, and he texted her.

Bad circuit (or something) at the exchange.

I've run into this a couple of times. When it happens, I always go through the operator. That helps determine where the issue is. Either it goes through, and you know it's on your end, or it doesn't and you know it's not on your end.

^-.-^

[Draco]

Moving around for military in pre-cell phone days, we of course had new phone numbers every few years, keeping family and friends up to date could be a challenge. Sometimes more than others. When we moved to West Virginia and got our phone, we were notified by mail a day or two later to disregard the number they gave us at first, the number would now be a different one. We had already given the number to a few people, and had to re-notify them. Found out later what had really happened - they had given us a number that was already in use, we could call out fine, but anyone calling us got the first holder of the phone number. We found that out, and who actually had the number, when we called one friend to give her the changed number, and she exclaimed "aha, so that's why when I called you yesterday I got the city police department".

...

lol. I admit, I laughed hard. I could only imagine the panic your friends and family must have felt when the called and got the police.

[PepperElf]

d "aha, so that's why when I called you yesterday I got the city police department".

and that's not a small fuckup. Although I'm betting it probably freaked some people out if they had caller ID when you called them.


which reminds me I should check my phone to see if Billy's friends called again. Sometimes they call me up at midnight but usually only when the phone is nowhere near me.

Nope. nothing of late. but still it gets annoying cos... i think he still gives the number out. even though i've had it since april.

[mariamousie1]

Makes me glad all I get are calls for people from church looking for my parents, or the confused idiot Mason who keeps wanting Amanda. Only, I'd love to meet this Amanda girl. She gave him my number as a fake, I assume, or one number off.

My name is Amanda...but I don't know anyone named Mason. Don't hit me!

[Crossbow]

If only I had the chance....

I looked up the number (hat tip http://mrnumber.com/) and it was shown as being in my city. They haven't called back. I'm almost sad at this. I have a response all ready to go if they do.

I love Mr. Number. It makes things so much quieter on my phone.

I've had a few texts come through that wouldn't believe they had the wrong number. Irritating, but no longer a problem. ;-)

[FormerCallingCardRep]

There is a guy here locally named Christopher that when out in the club will purposely transpose the begining of his phone number. His number is XXX-428-XXXX and my number is XXX-482-XXXX. I have gotten several irrate females because I am answering their boyfriend's phone