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Oleg
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Re: Too many wrong number call on cell
said by TearAbite  :i think what's going on is a lot of stupit people in your area don't know how to dial ? Hell it's Alabama what do you think?
One of those idiots called me three times after telling him he got wrong number! | |
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| When my wife first got her new cell number a few years ago, she was getting a few calls a day for "Sylvia" .. apparently, Sylvia was pretty popular with the stupid crowd..
Several times she would tell a caller "no, you have the wrong number, Sylvia does not have this number anymore".. The person would hang up, dial back 10 seconds later, she would tell them again "noooo.. thissss issss nottt sylviaassss phoneeee nummberrrr anyyymoreee" (slow, so they would understand).. they'd say sorry, hang up, and call back again! the record was 3 times.
THEN she changed her voicemail to say something like, "hi, this is christina, please leave a message. if you're calling for Sylvia, this is no longer her phone number, please do not leave a message" - and she'd STILL get messages for Sylvia..
we have become convinced that the vast majority of people are phuking retarted, with a higher percentage in the under 25 age-group. | |
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Birmingham, AL | Well good to know i am not the only one »phronko.blogspot.com/2009/06/mat···ers.html | |
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| Some years ago after getting all manner of wrong number calls, I did some thinking and I started writing down the numbers that these idiots THOUGHT they were calling. I was flabergasted when one person got every single digit except the first one, wrong. Well, it turned out that my phone number had two repeating digits. Something like this: 335-8227. What apparently would happen is that people would be trying to call 358-227x or 335-827x and would get confused (or already were) and would hit the 3 or the 2 key twice without realizing it. The phone co equipment doesn't seem to care if you dial an extra digit at the end.
And then there was the bitch that kept calling asking to speak with Debbie. First call she says "let me speak to Debbie" and I answer, "there is no Debbie at this number 335-8227". Caller says "yes there is, put her on". I ask what number she's calling and it turns out she did not misdial. This turns into a 2 month ordeal of phone calls at all hours of the day or night, with this bitch (Debbie's Mother, I assume) refusing to acknowledge that her daughter has intentionally or not, given her the wrong number. No amount of begging or pleading with this woman could get her to try to find out her daughter's real phone number from some other route. I got plenty of suggestions from others on how to get rid of this caller that ranged from "Debbie can't talk right now, because she's giving me h***" to "Debbie asked me to tell you to f*** off and die". I never tried those but finally after being awakened from a sound sleep at 3am by one of these calls, I told this woman that she was insane and that if she really believed that Debbie did live here and that I simply wouldn't let her speak to her, then should she hang up and dial 911. I told her to give the police my phone number and that they will know where I live and have them send over a squad car, as I'd be happy to discuss the matter with them. Then I hung up. I never heard a word after that. No squad car, no more phone calls. I returned to the world of simple repeating digit idiot wrong numbers.
As for the OP getting wrong numbers on a new phone, I'd heard that service providers normally give numbers a cooling off period after someone discontinues service, but that if you piss them off enough when ordering new service, they'll assign you a hot number that just went out of service for non-payment and your life will be a living hell for a few months.
There is always the strategy that my daughter uses where she refuses to answer any calls from numbers that she doesn't recognize. It's a pain, as I have to remember to unblock caller id from the home phone when I call her cell, else no answer. I have noticed an interesting difference between the attitude women and men have towards cell phones. Women tend to see them as only for their personal convenience to make phone calls. Actually being able to receive calls, seems more of a nuisance than benefit to them. Men tend to be more pragmatic and recognize the benefit of both making and receiving calls.
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| said by a101 :
There is always the strategy that my daughter uses where she refuses to answer any calls from numbers that she doesn't recognize. It's a pain, as I have to remember to unblock caller id from the home phone when I call her cell, else no answer. I have noticed an interesting difference between the attitude women and men have towards cell phones. Women tend to see them as only for their personal convenience to make phone calls. Actually being able to receive calls, seems more of a nuisance than benefit to them. Men tend to be more pragmatic and recognize the benefit of both making and receiving calls.
That's actually what I do as well though I take it one step further. Unless I am expecting a call from someone and I might not know what their caller ID info will come up as, I refuse to answer the phone if I don't know the number. CID shows "unavailable", "Unknown", "private" or anything like that, forget it, I'm never answering your calls. My boss in Atlanta has his work number blocked like that and I never picked up when he tried to call my home or cell number. He eventually programed a speed dial for me that had the unblock code in front of the number and no more problems after that. When he would call the office number I did answer that obviously but he ended up being the only person to call with a blocked CID so I knew it was him anyway. | |
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said by Oleg :said by TearAbite :i think what's going on is a lot of stupit people in your area don't know how to dial ? Hell it's Alabama what do you think? One of those idiots called me three times after telling him he got wrong number! Oops sorry about that, if you get a call from a 975, or 807 number ignore it, it's me idiot dialing 
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said by TearAbite :When my wife first got her new cell number a few years ago, she was getting a few calls a day for "Sylvia" .. apparently, Sylvia was pretty popular with the stupid crowd.. Several times she would tell a caller "no, you have the wrong number, Sylvia does not have this number anymore".. The person would hang up, dial back 10 seconds later, she would tell them again "noooo.. thissss issss nottt sylviaassss phoneeee nummberrrr anyyymoreee" (slow, so they would understand).. they'd say sorry, hang up, and call back again! the record was 3 times. THEN she changed her voicemail to say something like, "hi, this is christina, please leave a message. if you're calling for Sylvia, this is no longer her phone number, please do not leave a message" - and she'd STILL get messages for Sylvia.. we have become convinced that the vast majority of people are phuking retarted, with a higher percentage in the under 25 age-group. After the third call my response would be "I am so sorry. Sylvia is dead, oh and you missed the funeral it was yesterday."
I used to have phone # 305-740-0221, and the phone # to Nike Town was/still is 305-740-0121. It wasn't too bad but I would get calls for Nike town. After a while when people would call for directions I would tell them it was located somewhere 10 miles away. I figured if they were too stupid to dial the right number or read an address there was no harm.
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1 edit | Ouch, that's mean. But I like it anyway 
Atlanta has several area codes that serve just the metro area. Last count I saw was three, 404, 770 and 678 with a fourth in the works (470 I think). I used to have 404-867-8200 and would get calls every so often for Chateau Elan. At first I just told them they had the wrong number but something told me to investigate it. I looked all over their site for a vague reference for my phone number but I was looking in the wrong place. Out of desperation I googled the 770 area code version of my number and voila, there it was. I see just now that googling the 404 version of my number reveals it still points to Chateau Elan in some winery directories that no doubt haven't been updated in a while. When I got that number back in 2002ish it was a new block Nextel had recently acquired IIRC.
After discovering they had the 770 version of my number I told callers to try that instead. Every misdialer was obviously grateful to get the right number and I never got any repeat callers. Granted the age group going to a winery is a little different than the age group that can't understand that Sylvia doesn't have this number anymore lol. | |
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