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Subject: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: lebeiw15 on 05/27/02 at 11:24 a.m.
What are some embarrassing things you have said while getting a wrong number? For instance, the other day, an older friend of mine's mom was making potato salad for graduation and ran out of red potatoes. So, she called the (number she thought was the) grocery store, and asked, "Do you have red potatoes??" The person on the other end said, "Um.. yeah..?" The mom said, "Do you have twenty pounds' worth?" It turned out it was not the grocery store, but a woman who lives in an old blue house on the corner of Hall and Main.
Any funny stories you have? ;D
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Natski on 05/27/02 at 11:59 a.m.
well I was trying to ring my friend because he was supposed to be meeting me and he was late. so I dialed his number and someone answered. I just assumed it was him.
I yelled down the phone, "Where the heck are you? You're late!" and started saying other stuff.....
Then some lady on the phone said, "Who are you?"
I'd dialled the wrong number..I'd actually dialled some lady's house number! :-X
I hung up the phone and when I told my friend he laughed his head off. Well I suppose it was kinda funny ;D
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: philbo_baggins on 05/27/02 at 12:11 a.m.
We used to have a number which was the National Tyre Service number, but with one digit reversed - it didn't help that one issue of Yellow Pages actually printed our number for them... so I have lots of the following sorts of stories:
Me: Hello
??: Do you do front bumpers for Minis?
Me: No, do you think I should?
Me: Hello
??: How much for a pair of Pirelli 195/50s?
Me: Why don't you try phoning a tyre shop, you're more likely to get an answer you can use
...though the number of people who don't believe you that you are not a &^^$$*"! tyre centre and think that if they shout loud enough you'll suddenly say that you'll fix their car...
Phil
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: jamminoldies on 05/27/02 at 12:32 a.m.
It always happens in our house.Someone calls up and asks for"John"or"Michael"or so and so.So I say"You got the wrong number".I should never say"What number are you trying to call"?That's wrong.I figured out that some people call the right number with the first 3 numbers correct and the last 4 numbers incorrect.-howard- :)
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Wicked Lester on 05/27/02 at 12:39 a.m.
A couple of years ago we were going to visit my oldest brother, who lives several states away. When we were about a mile from his house I dialed what was supposed to have been his number... someone answered, and not paying close attention, I said "Hey sh*t for brains, roll out the red carpet and set the banquet table, because I'm just about there!". There was a moment of silence, and then in a very annoyed voice, "Who the hell is this?" ;D
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: langdon_hughes on 05/27/02 at 01:39 p.m.
Lester, that'll learn ya!
I'm pretty good about calling, but once I received an obscene call... in Spanish. I could tell from the husky whipery voice and heavy breathing, but had no clue what he was saying. So I let it go for a few seconds, getting what education I could, and finally said, "Um, I don't speak Spanish. No habla."
There was a long silence and the guy said in a totally normal voice, "Oh. Sorry," and hung up.
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: dagwood on 05/27/02 at 02:19 p.m.
I don't usually say anything embarassing when I dial a wrong number...I do get people calling me and saying "are you sure?" when I tell them there is no one named bob here.
My sister used to have a phone number almost exactly like Big O tire...Big O began with 734 hers was 723...the last four numbers were exactly the same. She would get calls with people yelling at her because their car broke down. There were a few times that she would ask them where they were and say she'd be right there with a tow truck.
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Zella on 05/28/02 at 03:19 a.m.
Well, when I was in my teens, my friend Belinda had a number that ended in 8823. Sometimes when I was in a hurry and not thinking, I would dial 8233 and I always got this same elderly lady. Since my friend lived with her grandmother, I would ask for Belinda, thinking her grandmother was answering. After about the fourth time, the lady got very miffed and said something like: "Young lady, I am getting very tired of this, and I think you should be more careful when you dial." I was very embarrassed and was careful after that not to misdial. About a month later, I was looking thru my mother's little phone book for someone's number and I came across the number I'd been misdialing. It was our elderly neighbor across the street! (And this in a city of 280,000--what were the odds?) I'm certainly glad she never realized who it was who was plaguing her! :-[ :-X
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Gis on 05/28/02 at 03:35 a.m.
A while ago our old phone number was one digit different from the doctors surgery! As you can imagine we used to get people phoning up all the time and going of into a long description of their symptoms(not always pleasent I can tell you!!)whilst you'd be on the phone trying to get a word in edgeways to say they had the wrong number.Most people were completely outraged when they realised which I always found quite amusing as it was there mistake not mine.
Best one though was my parents phone number being the same as a hotel but with a different area code.My Mum got a phonecall 'Hello we are just confirming your order for a 1000 toilet rolls' My Mum'I didn't order any toilet rolls'
'Oh,so you're cancelling the order'
'Well since I didn't place it yes!'I just had visions of the hotel having to cut up squares of newspaper or something...... ;D
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Banasy on 05/29/02 at 02:27 a.m.
Me: Hello?
Other Person: Is (Blah blah) there?
Me: I'm sorry, you must have the wrong number.
OP: Is this (my phone #)?
Me: There is no one by that name here.
OP: But is this (my #)?
Me: Yes, but...
OP: Well, is (Blah blah) there or not?
Me: Nobody here by that name!
OP: IS THIS (my #)?
Me: YES!!!
OP: Well, dammit, is (Blah blah) there?
Me: Yes, he is! He doesn't want to talk to you. Goodbye!!!
Me: Hello?
OP: Who the hell is this?
Me: (Blah blah)'s b i t c h...who the hell is asking?
And folks wonder why I never pick up!
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Scorpian on 05/29/02 at 12:51 a.m.
I was calling my aunts new cell phone number and I kept getting the wrong number...
Guy: Hello
Me: Hello
Guy: Hello
Me: This isn't who I'm trying to call.
G: Are you looking for Mike.
M: Uh NO
G: David
M: Uh No I think I'll go
G: I'll find on of em for you
M: Goodbye (click)
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Junior on 05/29/02 at 01:38 p.m.
My neighbor and I have the same numbers except for two reversed digits. We're quite used to getting calls from the other's family or friends. ::)
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: DJ Midas on 05/29/02 at 02:03 p.m.
This call came into me about 12 years ago - kinda freaked me out at the time:
Me: Hello?
OP: Yes, may I please speak with Matt?
Me: There's no one here by that name. (my name is not Matt)
OP: Naw, this is Matt...
Me: No, it's not.
OP: Yeah, this is Matt...
Me: Dude, my name's not Matt.
OP: Yeah it is, Matt, and you better pay me that $600 you owe me.
Me: F*** you.
OP: Now you've really pissed me off, Matt! Ooh, just wait 'til I find you...
Me: Whatever dude. Look, my name is not Matt, and whoever this Matt guy is, I hope you do find him and I hope he takes your $600 and shoves it up you're a**, 'cause you're a d***. Have a nice day. <click>
He never called back...
Thank goodness for caller ID nowadays.
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: XenaKat13 on 05/29/02 at 08:10 p.m.
When I got my first apartment on my own, my head was full of nightmare stories of young women living alone in the Big City. Some of the main cautions were: 1) get an answering machine. If no one answers the phone, burglars will know you are not home and will rob you blind. And 2) never say you are "not at home" on the greeting message, for the same reason.
Keeping this in mind, my first answering machine greeting said something to the effect that I was either across the hall doing laundry, or was in the shower.
My very first message was my first wrong number ever. It was apparently from a 13 year old boy. The first message was of him saying "oh, shoot. I think I dialed it wrong". My second message was him again, (I think he used the automatic re-dial) and he had obviously been dared to say this: "Well, (giggling and snorting all the way) don't forget to wash your @!#%&$$%# while you are in there!!". :o :o
At first I thought it was horrible (such language!), then I realized I had been asking for it. :-[ :-[ :-[ I revised my outgoing message after that. :-[ :-[ :-[
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Banasy on 06/01/02 at 04:50 a.m.
Quoting:
This call came into me about 12 years ago - kinda freaked me out at the time:
Me: Hello?
OP: Yes, may I please speak with Matt?
Me: There's no one here by that name. (my name is not Matt)
OP: Naw, this is Matt...
Me: No, it's not.
OP: Yeah, this is Matt...
Me: Dude, my name's not Matt.
OP: Yeah it is, Matt, and you better pay me that $600 you owe me.
Me: F*** you.
OP: Now you've really pissed me off, Matt! Ooh, just wait 'til I find you...
Me: Whatever dude. Look, my name is not Matt, and whoever this Matt guy is, I hope you do find him and I hope he takes your $600 and shoves it up you're a**, 'cause you're a d***. Have a nice day. <click>
He never called back...
Thank goodness for caller ID nowadays.
End Quote
Hey, Matt, I know that's you, I want my freakin money!!! You are about to sleep with the fishies... ;)
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: MissInformation on 06/01/02 at 09:03 p.m.
Oh my. I called a management company to complain one time (which I had never done before or since). It went like this:
"Hi, this is (my name) from 2128 Oakwood Drive #100. We had a gas leak in our stove last night and the fire department turned off the gas to our apartment, and we called you and you said someone would be out to replace the stove first thing this morning. Well, it's now 10 o'clock at night and no one has been here. It's only 40 degrees outside, and we have no heat and no stove to cook any food on. We're hungry and cold and I want to know what you're going to do about it!"
"Um, Ma'am... this is The Peperoni Post."
MissInformation
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Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Indy Gent on 06/02/02 at 01:31 a.m.
The main phone number in the house is 1 digit off from one of my sister's friends. We've known her family since the 70s. So when someone asks for an "Angel", "Stephanie" or "Vickie", we usually give them their number. But we stopped doing that so they can figure it out themselves.
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 06/02/02 at 07:11 a.m.
Mine is not embarassing but rather unusual.
One morning at about 3 o'clock my Dad answered the phone in a drowsy state, only to be asked by the operator from Warsaw (Poland) if he was prepared to accept a reverse charges call.
This was before the current Pope so he declined. As we were nominally Anglican he probably would have declined, even if....
FBVP :)
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: Tarzan Boy (Guest) on 06/02/02 at 07:19 a.m.
Quoting:
Lester, that'll learn ya!
I'm pretty good about calling, but once I received an obscene call... in Spanish. I could tell from the husky whipery voice and heavy breathing, but had no clue what he was saying. So I let it go for a few seconds, getting what education I could, and finally said, "Um, I don't speak Spanish. No habla."
End Quote
That was YOU!?
Tarzan Boy
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Wrong Numbers
Written By: DJ Midas on 06/03/02 at 12:40 a.m.
Quoting:
Hey, Matt, I know that's you, I want my freakin money!!! You are about to sleep with the fishies... ;)
End Quote
Wowwwwww. ...Is your voice still that deep or deeper? ;)