i am who i say i am

nnewton

nnewton

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every once in a while i will get a telephone call from someone who doesnt know they have dialed the wrong number, and insists (despite many denials on my part) that i am someone else.
this has happened several times over the years (always with a different caller). does it ever happen to anyone else? just wondering....
 
:D If they insist you are someone else, just agree and invite them over...They'll go to the house of the person they think you are and there should be an interesting conversation there for them...
 
At my old house my phone number was one number off from the local Walmart. People would call up and demand we go see if we have purple lunchboxes in stock, or some other stupid shit, I'd always lay the phone down for a minute or two, then come back on and say, "Yep, sure do, come on out."
 
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer's number was one off of MovieFone. :D

I've had people call me at Walgreens thinking it was Walmart. Dumbasses. :grumpy:
 
Someone called my cell phone about a week ago...
Them: Mike? ( I sound like a little girl...not a man:rolleyes: )
Me: you must have the wrong number
Them: well, is Mike there?
Me: No, this is a cell phone, you have the wrong number
Them: can I leave him a message?
Me: I don't even know anyone named Mike
Them: what number is this?
Me: click
 
My parents' phone number used to be one digit in the prefix away from the local Williams Bros. (supermarket, since bought out by Vons, since bought out by Safeway but still under the Vons name). Sometimes my mom would take the call of an employee calling in sick, and so she'd call Williams Bros. to tell them so-and-so was sick that day. Eventually, they told her not to call; if the employee can't get the number right, too bad.
 
my mom used to get calls for a dentist's office all the time, eventually she started making appointments for some of the ruder ones :D
 
Our number is the same except for two transposed digits as the Sopchoppy Baptist Church. We get calls here for them all the time. I've had at least one person try to tell me that they had dialed the right number. Baptists... :rolleyes:
 
Leslie said:
my mom used to get calls for a dentist's office all the time, eventually she started making appointments for some of the ruder ones :D
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My phone number is the same as the Quebec City Hilton. 'Cept for the area code. I started taking reservations, making massive upgrades, and quoting insane prices. I sold a 4 room suite for $100 once. I imagine the hotel had a fun time dealing with that:)
 
My dads business 800 number that he had for 17 years ended up being one number off of a customer service number for a west coast mega monolith HMO. For three years he got roughly 20 bad calls a day from people being jerks. They would call the regular number and get the busy signal. They would then start dialing up and down the number list thinking that they could somehow get past regluar channels and straight into management that way because of the tendancies of large companies to buy up blocks of numbers.
 
Stop Laughing said:
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer's number was one off of MovieFone. :D
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555-FILK:

"Why don't you just TELL me the movie you want to see?" :laugh:

That is THE BEST Seinfeld episode ever.
 
about a month ago i answered my phone, said hello, and waited for the caller to say what they wanted. there was some confused mumbling from the other end. finally someone who sounded like a teenage boy said, "did you call me?" i had no idea who this was or what they meant, so i told him that, to the best of my knowledge, i had not called him. there was a pause, so i asked him if he had called me. he said no, his phone rang and he answered it and it was me. "me too," i said. there was another pause. "so now what?" i asked, figuring we might as well have a chat, but he hung up.
 
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