Comments on: Cell phone # madness!

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:48:04 +0000

For a very long time I had constant texts from some girls friends. They usually were extreamly drunk, and when I tried telling them it was the wrong number, they rarely cared, and kept rambling on, wasting my texts.

While this was simply annoying the best was deffinately when this wonderfull womans gyno called to tell me about some test results.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:27:46 +0000

I got my first cell phone 12 years ago so that I could be in touch with my groomsmen who were coming in from all over the country for my wedding. The very first call I got on my phone was from “Ashley” who was “returning” my call for an “out call appointment.” This was three days before my wedding mind you. Apparently Ashley did not like being stood up by her date and so she proceeded to call me 10-12 times a day to berate me.
Fast forward to my new wife and me sitting at the airport waiting for our flight to Hawaii and my phone rings. Wife answers my phone and tells “Ashley” that she is my wife, she knows all about her and if she calls me again she will be found in the trunk of a car like the last one. Never heard from “Ashley” again.

I also got a new number after moving to DC three years ago. Apparently the guy who had my phone before was of Middle eastern decent as I kept getting calls in Farsi. (I know enough Farsi to get a pretzel and find a bathroom.) I got calls all day and night even after explaining I was not Mahmood everytime. I finally started telling them this line was tapped by the FBI and to “use the other number from now on!” It worked.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:47:13 +0000

A couple of years ago I had a Georgia number that was previously used by a guy named Kelly as a “business” number. The only problem was that Kelly happened to be a male escort and the number was listed on a couple of web sites that specialized in that sort of thing.

The hardest part was getting the number removed from those sites. Whenever someone called and discovered that they called a wrong number, they’d get off the phone real quick. I had to speak quicker to keep them on the phone long enough to tell me where they got the number.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:28:01 +0000

A couple of years ago, when my uncle was a police officer, he told me about a phone call that came into his station house when he was on duty. Apparently, the man on the line was trying to get directions to a restaurant certain intersection (this was before the days of OnStar and personal navigation devices). The only problem was, the intersection that the caller insisted the restaurant was on did not exist in my uncle’s town.

After a long and frustrating conversation, my uncle told the caller that he had lived in Holbrook his entire life and the intersection simply was not there. To which the caller replied: “I have lived in Holbrook, NY for the past 20 years and I know that it is!”

One problem, the caller was not calling Holbrook, NY. As it ends up, the area codes for the towns of Holbrook in two different states are off by one number and the phone numbers for the two station houses were the same.

I don’t know if this has happened again but we had a really good laugh about it.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:48:44 +0000

At one point my phone number was one digit away from the gas station down the street, and I’d get guys calling me and asking what king of oil I had and if I could fix their brakes…

Another incident happened with my cell phone a couple of years ago when I was in high school. I kept getting calls from this little kid who apparently didn’t know that his mother had a new phone number. The wierd thing was though that the calls would always come during school, which got me into a lot of trouble but made me wonder what this kid was doing all day.

By: Stew

Stew — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:55:48 +0000

On my home phone we get calls/messages about once a month (always when we are not home) from a drunk who asks to speak to Jeerrrrryyyyy (in his nasal whine). The message usually contains a please as to why Jerry never calls him back. Of course he never left his name or telephone number. These calls lasted for about 5 years, until once I actually answered it and explained that this wasn’t Jerry’s number. Then the calls stopped. However last week we got a message from a drunk Lou, who sounded a bit like the caller for Jerry.

One more story a friends father had a mean streak. One night at about 3 in the morning he got a call for Bob. He told the caller he had the wrong number. 15 minutes later he got another call for Bob. He told the caller, “Wait a minute Bob’s sleeping. (pause) Hey Bob, BOB, BOB!!! Oh my god, I think Bob’s dead!!! I got to go I have to call an ambulance!!!’

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:25:30 +0000

When I got my phone back in high school I began getting phone calls for Amanda or Mandy. Her friends didn’t seem to have a problem when I explained that she was no longer at the number; I didn’t know her as I had recently received the number from Sprint. I did, however, get daily calls from a collection agency. They were under the impression that I was Amanda and that I was trying to get out of paying. I explained countless times and the calls continued, so I started letting them ring to voicemail. At that point the collection agency starting leaving multiple messages each day. I finally answered one and explained to the caller in no uncertain terms that I was not Amanda, did not know her nor how to reach her and they were not to call me again. I then asked to speak to the manager, refusing to be put on hold seeing as they had called me. I explained the same thing to the manager, and repeated the process with the manager’s supervisor. I remember someone in the chain tried to apologize and I replied that it didn’t matter if they apologized if they were incapable of communicating within their company that Amanda was no longer connected to my phone number. That was the last time I heard from them, though I would have had a few choice words for Amanda, too had the opportunity come up.

By: Hayes

Hayes — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:43:53 +0000

I changed my phone number last year and kept getting calls for some guy who disappeared off the face of the earth 4 months before. His father and sister left several emotional voicemails before I finally called the father to say he had the wrong number.

By: Mandie

Mandie — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:58:35 +0000

My cell is one number off from a local country music station. Late nights and weekends I get plenty of half drunk, half depressed, half angry (I know that’s 3 halves)calls to dedicate a song to someone who probably wasn’t even listening to a radio when it played. And, I knew not to even answer my phone when said radio station gave away Panther Super Bowl tickets a few years ago.

By: Ki

Ki — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:04:11 +0000

Often, I get phone calls from a very angry or drunk sounding man telling me to “Get yourself down here you … Why aren’t you here? I’m going to tell your mother, and she won’t be happy.” I feel very sorry for this woman the messages are intended for.