Wrong number arguer (short)

[bhskittykatt]

I just got a call from a restricted number.

Me: "Hello?"
Caller: "Hi, is Jessica there?"
Me: "You have a wrong number."
Caller: "No, I don't."
Me: *click*

[Jay 2K Winger]

I can already predict the follow-up.

Caller: "I think you hung up on me!"
bhskittykat: "Really? Did it sound like this?"
*click*

[Anglesmith]

My brother got a call like this once. Except his caller kept calling back and even left him a nasty voice mail.

[Crossbow]

Please hold for Mr. Dialtone. *click*

[taxguykarl]

Please hold for Mr. Dialtone. *click*

I'm going to have to remember that one.

[Ophbalance]

Back when the missus and I first got married, we moved into a new place near her Grandmother. In doing so we got a landline for the house. This was the late 90s and cellphones were still really just becoming a household occurrence, and I used this landline for dialup internet access as well.

The unfortunate side affect of getting this line was the number assigned to it. For years, YEARS, we received calls that were supposed to go to a local security agency. Turns out this company had gone out of business JUST before we got their number. In fact, their number was listed incorrectly in telephone directories for at least a year they went MIA.

The calls coming in expecting there to be a security agency usually asked "Do you know the new number?". Why... why on earth would we have this information?? Do people not realize that a phone is not just assigned to a physical location?? Or maybe, that's simply not a good question to ask about these parts .

Anyway, most were similar to the above. Except one. That one special snowflake coot. This gent called multiple times, no less. This old geezer just could not fathom that we were NOT the security agency, and called back several times in an attempt to... catch us off guard? In a lie? Who knows. And so, after much exasperation, my wife finally says to the coot "Fine, how about I put you on with our head of Security. Thumper. THE DOG!" *click*.

On the plus side, the calls from the geezer ended after that .

[Sundassa]

Years ago when I had Nextel, you know their whole Direct Connect thing, I received a wrong number direct connect, and he didn't listen to me when I told him it was a wrong number, and I was pregnant, my husband worked late, and we only had the cell phones. This guy would DC me at all hours of the night, and curse me out. It was bad. And while you were in a DC, you couldn't call or DC anyone else. So, I had to wait until he stopped, or I had to power off my phone (because Nextel didn't let you block certain people from DC'ing you) and then upon turning it back on, I'd quickly dial my sister, and tell her to just talk to me for a bit. That, and their merger with Sprint, were my only complaints about Nextel.

People just choose to be asses. Now, I have Verizon, and I have a jailbroken iphone with iBlacklist. If a unknown number calls me, I send it to VM, if they don't leave a voicemail, they get put into my Blacklist ALL contact list, and then they get sent to a busy signal next time they call. I had too much frustration with wrong numbers to deal with it any further.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I once had this girl call my mobile thinking it was some guy she'd spent the night with. When I answered, she immediately tore into me, asking me why I was answering her "boyf's" phone. I told her I'd owned the phone for several years and that the guy had obviously given her a fake number to get rid of her. She started sobbing and hung up. Jeez. -.-

[Aethian]

I had a TON of bad numbers call me one time where it was the same guy on the end every time. Finally he called from a number that you could actually look up. Turned out I had become his favorite past time to bug. So I sent the number off to the bf (now ex) and he called the number back. From his office phone on base, with the approval of a higher rank. Tore the guy into strips and strangely enough I never got another call from the d-bag again.

[thatcrazyredhead]

I received a couple of calls like that on my old cell number. My favorite was this one.

Female caller: Hey, let me talk to Tony.
Me: I'm sorry, there's nobody here by that name. You have the wrong number.
Female caller: I know he's there. I want to talk to him NOW!
Me: There's nobody here by that name. You have the WRONG number.
Female caller: I KNOW Tony's there!! If you don't put him on the phone right now-
Me: *click*

I've always wondered how much trouble poor Tony was in once she finally caught up with him.

[MadMike]

My brother got one who seemed to think that the person he was calling was playing a prank on him. Something like:

"Hey, (wrong name), how's it going?"

"You have the wrong number. There's no one here by that name."

"Come on, (wrong name), quit playing around! I know it's you!"

I'm not sure how that one played out.

[Bob The Random Boy Wonder]

I was getting those for a while, but I never answer numbers I don't know. The voicemails the guy would leave always went something like this:

"'Sup, dude. I'm down at the spot. I've got my stuff. Bring your stuff. Later, bro."

I always wanted to answer and go, "oh, the spot? The one down by the place? And bring the stuff? You mean the one with the thing or the other one with that other thing?"

As you might imagine, the guy always sounded stoned out of his wits. I'm not sure, but I think he might've been related to Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. It sure sounded like it! I haven't had any more of these phone calls in a long time, though. He must've given the stuff to the wrong person, bro!

[Ironclad Alibi]

All this talk of wrong numbers reminded of the following line from Ruthless People.

Sam Stone: [answering the phone] Hello? Debbie? Yeah, Debbie's here, who's this? Well, Ralph, uh, Debbie can't talk right now, my dick's in her mouth. How about if I have her call you back later when I'm done?
[hangs up and laughs]
Sam Stone: I love wrong numbers.

[Really]

When I first got my phone number that I still have today I use to get calls all the time about the past owner of the number. The one that took the cake was someone calling for an interview:

Idiot: Hello is Pam there?
Me: -sighs- No Pam is not here. She gives this number out all the time and it is NOT hers. Please don't call here again
Idiot: Hi Pam. I'm calling in regards to your resume you dropped off last week
Me: Dude, did you just not hear what I said, this IS NOT PAM. Pam gave you a BAD number...
Idiot: Pam I don't understand why you aren't interested in this fine opportunity....
Me: Dude, are you really that big of an idiot? THERE IS NO PAM HERE. Now do NOT call this number again!
Idiot: I'm sorry, if you hang up on me I'll be forced to look at other people for the position
Me: Now that's the smartest thing you've said all night. I just don't give a damn. Bye -click-

Think that was the last time I got anyone calling asking for Pam.

[EricKei]

What scares me is, I used to get wrong number calls claiming that "someone else had this #"...on a landline number that I have since ported to cell phone...to a number that we have been using since at least the 1970's >_>

Either these people had incredibly good memories, or bad area codes. Or maybe just poor dialing skills x.x Sheesh.