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Wrong number stories
By: whiterose Date: July 27, 2018, 4:13 pm
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Can't have enough of them!
Please share them!
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Re: Wrong number stories
By: Luci Date: July 27, 2018, 4:41 pm
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Do mean like the one about an acquaintance who received a wrong
number and ended up marrying the guy? And the divorced about 3
years later?
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Re: Wrong number stories
By: whiterose Date: July 27, 2018, 4:44 pm
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Anything and everything you have received. Or family has
received. Or you have seen somewhere else online.
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Re: Wrong number stories
By: VorFemme Date: July 27, 2018, 5:30 pm
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Two were memorable - back in 1980, when you had an actual
machine with a small tape cassette in it to answer your landline
phone and take messages, I got a phone call from a very
belligerent drunk (slurring words) who asked me for a name that
was so not mine - call her Viola Geranium (not the name) and
telling me to get his daughter (he was not nice about the names
he was calling her or me) to the phone right this minute or
(something not very nice) was going to happen to me if he had to
drive over there to talk to her. Irate just barely describes
the depth of his emotion...
I'd never heard of the woman and we'd had the number for over a
year at our new house. After he finally got off the phone - I
called the phone company and told them that they would be
changing our phone number immediately because of the threats and
the rest of the "conversation" (his side of it, at least). I
was told that it would cost me, as we hadn't had the number that
long - when VorGuy got home, I told him that we had a new phone
number & why. Wish I'd let the answering machine pick the call
up - I might have been able to play the tape for the phone
company and get the fee waived...didn't think about it until
later.
Fast forward several years, and we'd been living in a new house
for about two years - when another drunk calls and starts
calling me by the correct first name but a different last name
and trying to convince me that he is my brother, Bubba. I'd
been trying to get the phone company to contact the family of
that name, because their second phone line (teenagers) in the
phone book had OUR unpublished number printed under that name as
the number for the teenagers. Bubba was quite upset that I
didn't recognize my own big brother (I have two younger brothers
- I am the oldest sibling). Since the phone number was not in
our name, I couldn't get them to change the listing in the next
phone book and I couldn't get the other family to pick up on
their other phone number to get them to contact the phone number
to ask for the correction (not my listing - phone company didn't
care).
I just kept telling the callers that the number they had was
ours and that no one of that name lived in the household. I was
so glad when it came time to replace our DSL modem with a cable
modem - we had two phone lines, we dropped the number that was
in the phone book and the former DSL line became our phone
number. We quit getting phone calls from Bubba, any of the
teenagers' friends, or whoever else was using the wrong number
from the phone book.
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Re: Wrong number stories
By: wonderfullyanonymous Date: July 27, 2018, 7:48 pm
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While I was still living at home, I was home by myself. The
phone rings and I pick it up, and the person on the other end,
says "Hi,Jackie," and starts just a chattering away. She asked
me about someone and all I could says was, "You have a Jackie,
but I have no idea who you are." She asked if I was the number
she dialed, and I said, nope, not my number.
We both agreed, it was very strange.
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Re: Wrong number stories
By: Luci Date: July 27, 2018, 10:29 pm
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Someone in toward the city that we lived 40 miles away from
bounced a check at a grocery chain I had never heard. The check
casher's name was the feminine version of DH's first name and
our last name. The caller threatened to have the law after us
and I told them to call DH when he got home. That didn’t go very
far. DH told them equally firmly we had a lawyer. No yelling or
swearing. Just very firm statements on either side. It didn’t go
anyway.
We were newly weds and some gentleman thought he was calling the
owner of a munitions factory. I looked around at our tiny house
and used furniture and told him same first and last name, but
not us. He said, "Are you sure?"
A little girl kept calling a addressing me as Grandma in a
frightened voice. It was before 911 was developed and I didn’t
know we could dial 6 to get the phone number. I never did find
out. I hope she's OK.
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Re: Wrong number stories
By: Dr. F. Date: July 28, 2018, 10:31 am
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When I was in grad school, there was a kindergarden teacher with
my same first and last name in our small town. This is unusual -
my first name is common, but my last name is fairly rare. So,
I'd pretty routinely get calls about various kids. The amount of
information about their small children that people would happily
leave on an unknown answering machine was mind-boggling. I heard
ALL ABOUT toilet training problems, lice, roundworms, and
various tendencies to bite (but it's not a problem, really!),
but the worst was a woman who called while I was there, and
WOULD NOT believe that I wasn't really the teacher, and just
lying about it. She ended up shouting at me that there couldn't
possibly be two people in this small town with the same name! I
was a lying yadda-yadda (even with the more relaxed rules on
swearing here, I'm not comfortable repeating what she called
me). It finally ended when she yelled, "I don't care what you
lying [expletive] say, my kid DON'T SWEAR!"
I couldn't help it. I started laughing, and she hung up. She
left me several more abusive phone messages before her child
finally graduated from kindergarden and I fortunately had no
further contact with her.
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Re: Wrong number stories
By: Rose Red Date: July 28, 2018, 5:36 pm
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My family used to get calls only for the caller to hang up. We
jokingly made up a name for this caller, Paul.
We moved after almost 15 years in this house to a new town with
a brand new phone number. The first call we received was a wrong
number who asked "Is Paul there?" :o
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Re: Wrong number stories
By: sandisadie Date: July 28, 2018, 6:24 pm
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Back in the 80's we lived in South Florida. We kept getting
calls from a guy who thought his girl friend was at that number
and was shacking up with someone and hiding out from him. No
matter what we told him he just kept calling off and on for
months and months. Finally, my husband had had enough and so he
told this guy that he could stop calling because the girl friend
had eloped with a new man and moved far, far away. We never got
another call!
#Post#: 9900--------------------------------------------------
Re: Wrong number stories
By: Rho Date: July 28, 2018, 10:19 pm
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One Friday afternoon a frustrated teacher left a message on my
phone telling me if my son Daniel did not turn in his homework
Monday he would flunk her class. Not my son, not even a school
in my district. I called back the number to be connected to a
school office. Whoever answered the phone was not interested
and refused to investigate what teacher left a message without
checking if it was to the correct person. I have no idea if
Daniel ever passed his math class. A few months later another
teacher called me about Daniel. T his woman was kinder and
promised to let the school know not to use my number as Daniels
contact.
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