If you see

[jrmasm]

a missed call on your phone from a number you don't know, do you call it back?

eta: If no message was left......

 

[Myothername]

No. But I have had some fun with text messages I get by mistake. Last year while on vacation with bunch of family we were playing cards when I got a text from someone I didn't know. We spent the next 2 hours messing with them. It was lots of fun.

 

[happygirl]

a missed call on your phone from a number you don't know, do you call it back?

I do. I can never tell when someone might be broke down along the side of the road having to use someone phone.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

usually, no.

I have called back when someone has left an important message or repeatedly left messages for the wrong person! Just to let them know their message has not been received or that they need to find the correct number.

 

[Ohiodislover]

Not unless they leave me a voicemail telling me why they need to speak w/ me.

I usually don't even answer numbers I don't know. That is what voice mail is for.

 

[Ohiodislover]

No. But I have had some fun with text messages I get by mistake. Last year while on vacation with bunch of family we were playing cards when I got a text from someone I didn't know. We spent the next 2 hours messing with them. It was lots of fun.

I did this one time w/ a cell I had that had belonged to someone else. It was a work cell, and he held my position before me. I knew him and he was quite a tool...married man with a girlfriend or 2. A woman called me about midnight and asked for him. I told her he was in the shower, and then proceeded to yell for him--"honey you have a call" and then told her he would call her back. She called many times and I always answered. This went on for a few weeks.

 

[FireDancer]

I Google it first. If it doesn't come up anywhere I will usually call it back but not from my cell phone but from Google Voice. That way just in case it is some solicitor that hasn't make it onto any lists yet they don't know my number is a valid one.

 

[NMAmy]

No, and I hate it when people do--especially when I've left a voicemail message explaining the reason for the call.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

usually, no.

I have called back when someone has left an important message or repeatedly left messages for the wrong person! Just to let them know their message has not been received or that they need to find the correct number.

I did this once and never will again. It was a lawyer's office so I called them back to let them know they had the wrong number. OMG! I was grilled like I was a criminal. They wanted my name, my number, address, etc. I just kept repeating that the message they left for so and so was left at the wrong number. Geez. Never again!!! I ended up hanging up and them because it was like a dog with a bone at the other end and just wouldn't let up.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

nope...

I figure that if its important (car broke down, family emergency, and so forth, they WILL leave a message)

if it wasn't important enough to leave a message, then its not important enough for me to call back.

 

[dawson5]

I did this once and never will again. It was a lawyer's office so I called them back to let them know they had the wrong number. OMG! I was grilled like I was a criminal. They wanted my name, my number, address, etc. I just kept repeating that the message they left for so and so was left at the wrong number. Geez. Never again!!! I ended up hanging up and them because it was like a dog with a bone at the other end and just wouldn't let up.

That happened with my youngest son on his cell phone. He's 12. He was getting remind phone calls from H&R Block in Virginia, we're in Indiana. He called to tell them they had the wrong number and he's only 12 and they asked him all this info.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

I did this once and never will again. It was a lawyer's office so I called them back to let them know they had the wrong number. OMG! I was grilled like I was a criminal. They wanted my name, my number, address, etc. I just kept repeating that the message they left for so and so was left at the wrong number. Geez. Never again!!! I ended up hanging up and them because it was like a dog with a bone at the other end and just wouldn't let up.

I don't blame you!!!! "no good deed......!"

 

[georgina]

We don't have caller ID on our home phone, so I never see missed calls there. On my cell, if someone called and didn't leave a voicemail message, no, I don't bother calling them.

 

[MAKmom]

Only on my cell that I use for my Tupperware Business. I say this is Kathleen from Tupperware & I missed your call.

 

[XTinabell]

I did this once and never will again. It was a lawyer's office so I called them back to let them know they had the wrong number. OMG! I was grilled like I was a criminal. They wanted my name, my number, address, etc. I just kept repeating that the message they left for so and so was left at the wrong number. Geez. Never again!!! I ended up hanging up and them because it was like a dog with a bone at the other end and just wouldn't let up.

This happened to Dh once (he always calls back, I never do if I don't recognize the number) with a collection agency. A collector kept calling and leaving messages for someone that was not us, so dh called him back to tell him he had the wrong number. Dh was on the phone for over a half hour. The collector didn't believe dh and thought Dh was the person who owed money and grilled him for info. Dh kept saying, you have the wrong number, nobody here has that name or has an account with so-and-so. It was ridiculous.

 

[MIGrandma]

Nope, I don't call a number back if I don't recognize it and they did not leave a message. I just figure it must have been a wrong number. If they truly want to talk to me they will call back.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I do in case it is someone I know calling in an emergency, but I don't answer any questions. My canned response is: "You called me and I am doing you the courtesy of letting you know you didn't reach the person you wanted to reach. Don't ask me any questions because I don't know you and won't answer them, good luck finding the person you are trying to reach." If they call back I say, "Nope, still me. Try again. Have a great Day." I say the same thing to telemarketers.

 

[Sneezie]

I do, because my cell phone is also my business phone and I don't want to miss out on a potential client.

However, just recently I missed a call on my cell and I called back. Here's the conversation:

Me: Hello, this is Sneezie
short pause
Them: And?
Me: I had a missed call from this number.
Them (rudely): Well, I called your number by mistake.
Hang up.

 

[Robinrs]

No. VERY few people know my number so I figure it's a mistake.

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

Nea, if they don't leave a message I figure it isn't that important. I had a real funny (in a bad way) message the other day though for a wrong #..it went like, Hi, we are trying to reach "such and such" if this isn't "such and such" please hang up now...then they proceeded to detail all about the poor guys recent medical tests (and can I say I feel for him). I think THAT Drs office needs another lesson on HIPPA!! If you aren't sure of the number then DON"T leave that kind of message, simply req a call back for goodness sake. The only reason I didn't hang up was I had it on speaker while I was brushing my teeth lol..