Actually, no. I'm not Sam's Club

[Lace Neil Singer]

I once was woken up at stupid o'clock by some brain dead bint who, after I answered (in a very cranky voice as I do not like being woken up early in the morning on my day off!), replied, "Who the f*ck are you and what the f*ck are you doing on my boyf's phone?!" I replied, "This is not your boyf's phone. This is a wrong number." She then accused me of sleeping with her boyf. I then replied, "Check your f*cking number, you stupid bitch. I have had this phone for over five years, it has always been my phone, you have dialled the wrong number. Go the f*ck away and never call this number again, or I will contact the police." The numpty hung up, and never rang again.

[Imogene]

I got a call last night, on my cell phone, from a/to a plumber (I forget which, it was dead of the night, and I didn't listen very closely to the message), and he just wanted Steve to know he'd be around until... 10:00 PM.
I listened, pressed Delete, and forgot about it. Hurray. Note to self: change voice mail message...

[EvilAuthor]

I once was woken up at stupid o'clock by some brain dead bint who, after I answered (in a very cranky voice as I do not like being woken up early in the morning on my day off!), replied, "Who the f*ck are you and what the f*ck are you doing on my boyf's phone?!" I replied, "This is not your boyf's phone. This is a wrong number." She then accused me of sleeping with her boyf. I then replied, "Check your f*cking number, you stupid bitch. I have had this phone for over five years, it has always been my phone, you have dialled the wrong number. Go the f*ck away and never call this number again, or I will contact the police." The numpty hung up, and never rang again.

I'd be willing to bet she dumped her boyfriend for sleeping around anyway.

Stupid people are stupid no matter how much logic and reason you throw at them.

[mattm04]

I got one of those yesterday. A SC called three times DEMANDING to order a pizza. He wouldn't believe that I was not the pizza place. Eventually the SC demanded the manager. I told him the manager would call him back if he left his number, which he gladly did. Moron.

[MaggieTheCat]

I was actually on the opposite end of one of these conversations once. My parents and I are on a shared cell phone plan and we got our phones at the same time, the exact same model. I programmed several of our mutual contacts into both phones right away, including my brothers, my grandparents, my work number, our land house number, and my boyfriend's number. About a year later, I dropped my phone...from about 8 feet up, onto solid concrete. Snapped it right in two. I was sad. Anyway, I was at my parents' house, so I grabbed there phone and proceeded to text my boyfriend something like this, from their phone:

"Hey, this is Maggie, you wouldn't believe what I just did. I dropped my phone and it snapped in two. Give me a call at this number when you get the chance, but please don't txt unless you have to, this phone# doesn't have unlimited txting on it. Love you!"

About 5 minutes later, I got a call from, supposedly, my SO...except it wasn't him. WTF! Apparently I programmed his number incorrectly into my parents' phone when I put it in, and whomever I actually txt'ed called to tell me that I got the wrong number, because he didn't want me to use up all my txts trying to contact him! Awww, how sweet.

Later that night, the same guy called me back (on my parents' phone.) This time, HE got MY number mixed up with someone else's! Haha, oops!

[Spork4pedro]

my BF had the same issue with his phone only his was more amusing than annoying. Some apparently really popular guy (i think his name was Dave? don't remember) had his number before him but didn't tell anyone he got a new one, so for the first three months my BF constantly got calls asking for the guy. All were pretty polite though. The best was when it was the guy's birthday. My poor BF got over 100 calls wishing him a happy birthday!

[Kaylyn]

I've had to change my voicemail message. I kept getting phone calls in the middle of the day (I work nights) for some guy. I finally changed voicemail to say, "You've probably reached this number in error, as my phone barely gets service anywhere here, and most people know to call me at home. Please check your number and dial again. If you are someone I know, then feel free to leave a message and as soon as I can check voicemail, I'll call you back." Ever since then the number of wrong numbers has decreased pretty dramatically. And my friends and family always leave snarky voicemails now in response to my message. :P

[Bandit]

My last phone number was a car repair place.

My answering machine message was "Hello. You have reached 555-555-5555. If you are looking for car repairs, you have dialed the wrong number. Please hang up and try your call again."

When I moved, the phone company put a "This number has been changed to 444-444-4444" message on it. And it's a long-distance call.

Sadly, I kept disappointing people looking to see if their car was fixed after the move. Being a bastard, I kept them talking as long as possible.

B

[KellyHabersham]

Back when I first moved into my apartment complex/got a home phone number, I would frequently get calls looking for the woman whom the number had previously belonged to.......I think she was a real estate agent or something.

[KabeRinnaul]

A couple years ago I kept getting calls on my cell phone from some little kid. I never figured out who he was or where he was from. But it became a pretty consistent occurrence for a month or two. Two or three days a week, in the middle of the afternoon, I'd get a call that resulted in this exact conversation:

Me: "Hello?"
Kid: "I'm sorry I have the wrong number." *click*

And then again about 15 minutes to half an hour after that. And a third about another 15-30 minutes after the second. This kid was maybe 8 years old at the most from the sound of his voice (" 'm sowry I ha th'wron numbuh"), and neither the words nor his tone ever varied.

He may have been a robot.

[IT Grunt]

I remember one night back in my college days my phone went off at 2 AM. Girl on the other end asking for someone other than me, and I had no roommate at the time. (Ah, bliss..) She was absolutely insistent she had the right number. The first time she confirmed the number, she only used the 7 digit number and sure enough, it was the same as my dorm room. However, I assured her no one by that name lived here. This went back and forth several times (I maintained my composure despite being dreadfully tired), until she confirmed the number again. "Isn't this 307-XXX-XXXX?" Aha... now I know what happened. "No, this is 304-XXX-XXXX" Silence.. then complete realization. "Oh, I'm so sorry!" Apology accepted, I went back to sleep. If she'd offered the area code in the first place, we both could have gotten off the phone a lot quicker.

[Argabarga]

He may have been a robot.

More likely he was a "Wobot"

[PepperElf]

Well for some reason, she started using my old cell number

the in me says that's when you tell them, "no she gave you my number to get rid of you... her real number is XXX-XXX-XXXX"

If the guy had called me a third time, I'd have cussed him out or maybe even plotted to call him when it was 2am for him as revenge.

i was thinking quite the same thing

I told him the manager would call him back if he left his number, which he gladly did. Moron.

called him back at 2am eh?


I personally got sick of answering my cell. I asked for quotes for moving my stuff from VA to NY and marked that I preferred email contact but they still kept calling me every day.

So... now that I'm in a different city in NY I got my number changed to a local one and ... ah the bliss of them not calling me anymore

[Evil Queen]

This was said in a very breathy "I want to fuck your brains out" girlie message as my voicemail for the longest time.

"Hi! My name's BRUCE. <giggle> And I really want to talk to you. Just leave your name and number and I'll be sure to call you right away! I'm waiting for your call!"
Very quickly followed by my normal voice.
"If you're looking for <myname> ignore the first part."

Beep.

[JLRodgers]

I remember one night back in my college days....

My college dorm number was somewhat close to another persons..... with the same name (granted all numbers were fairly close, but ours were too close considering). "sadly" mine was first in the directory, and wouldn't you know the other one was into wild sex and drug parties.... and got calls at 2-3am.