So Someone Dialed the Wrong Number, so what?

[DawnCt1]

There are 5 people who live in my house and all use the telephone. In addition to the five people that live in my house, 3 of them have friends who visit and use the telephone. In addition to that, DS 26 drops by and occasionally uses the telephone. Didn't I get a call today from someone who said; "Did you call my cell phone"? I said, "I don't know, who are you?". He then goes into this long winded explanation about how my telephone number showed up on his cell phone a week ago and since then, it has showed up a couple of times and that he has called here to find out who called. So I said, well I guess someone dialed the wrong number. "Oh". "So have a nice day". So the question is; What did we all do before we had caller ID and had to know every time someone called and got the wrong number. When I get the wrong number, even if no one is home, if there is an answering machine, or a wrong cell phone number, I leave a message and say, "Sorry, wrong number". I even had someone call me to be sure that I meant that I got the wrong number. DS 24 always checks the caller ID when he walks in. His friends don't seem to leave messages on the answering machine, so a telephone number on the ID means he must return the call. I figure if they want me to return to call, they will leave a message.

 

[Sparx]

I've gotten a few of those calls. I usually don't do that, but if I pick up and you just hang up, I will probably call you back. I don't like being hung up on.

 

[worm761]

i check the caller id. and it bothers me if someone calls and doesn't leave a message. i don't know everyone's number that calls me. but in my case it has alot to do with work. if someone calls and doesn't leave a message then i dont know who it was or if it was important enough for me to call back. this just happened to me last week...i missed a call, i did not recognize the number and he didn't leave a message. he called about work from his cell. i was completely in the dark about an important issue because he assumed i would call back.

 

[DawnCt1]

..i missed a call, i did not recognize the number and he didn't leave a message. he called about work from his cell. i was completely in the dark about an important issue because he assumed i would call back.

I don't see how that is your fault. If he wanted you to call back, he should have left a message. Just having someone's number on your caller ID does not make you obligated to return the call. When I see my MIL's number on the caller ID, I don't call back because she doesn't leave a message.

 

[jbdreamer]

I hate when they just hang up!

I get wrong numbers all the time at work. My extension is 411!
I have been here over 2 years and still get co-workers calling for information once a week! I now often answer "Information" when I see it is an in-house call.

 

[Christine]

Dawn,
I'm with you on this one! I just don't understand a persons burning curiosity to know who called them. I do not have caller ID on my home phone so I never have to see who calls me. But my cell phone has caller ID and I will occasionally see a number I do not recognize. I have absolutely not one care or interest in who that person might have been and I cannot imagine calling them back to find out. If it was important and they are responsible, sane individuals, they WILL leave a message.

But, I have had people call me and say "your number showed up on my caller ID, why did you call me?" This was back when my kids were younger and they were learning to dial their grandparents' phone number. Once or twice they got it wrong. I actually had a guy call back and yell obscenities and my 8-year-old daughter for accidentally calling him. It scared her so bad, she wouldn't dial the phone for at least a year!

 

[Free4Life11]

I do NOT return calls unless they leave a message. If they dont bother to leave a message, I don't bother to call them back. Period.

 

[ForTheLoveofDisney]

I do NOT return calls unless they leave a message. If they dont bother to leave a message, I don't bother to call them back. Period.

 

[DawnCt1]

DS24 and his friends live by the caller ID. He gets home from work or school, checks the caller ID, calls everyone that called him, perhaps connects with one of them, then he leaves. Of course after he leaves, all of his friends who saw our number on their caller ID call back leaving me to answer the phone or check the caller ID to see if I want to bother. With regards to my cell phone, I will usually return a call to a number I recognize. My friends and I don't often leave messages on a cell phone because of the charge for minutes to pick up the messages. I do have one friend however that leaves such a long winded message on the cell, that I end up deleting it mid message because its easier to return the call.

 

[jennyl772003]

UGH! I hate when people call with "someone from this number just called me"

I get it all the time at work. I try to explain what we do at our office to see if it rings a bell with them. It drives me batty!

I would NEVER call a number I didn't recognize just to find out who they were. If they want me to call back, they need to leave me a message!

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

I do NOT return calls unless they leave a message. If they dont bother to leave a message, I don't bother to call them back. Period.

Ditto. I'm too busy doing important things (like DISing) to call people back that didn't bother to leave me a message.

 

[va32h]

I used to get this all the time at work. We have dozens of extensions. It could have been any one of 50 employees, for who knows how many reasons.

And I just had one at home yesterday - I misdialed the number to retrieve my voice mail and five minutes later I get a call "Who is this? Why did you call me?"

Now my second pet peeve though - are the ones that call you back just because they saw your number on caller ID and don't bother to listen to the messages.

"What did you want?"

"I left you a detailed message explaining everything, didn't you listen to it?"

"No, I just saw you on caller ID and called back."

 

[Planogirl]

I think that people are going to evolve with a phone as another limb eventually. People are SO tied to their phones!

 

[disykat]

I would NEVER call a number I didn't recognize just to find out who they were. If they want me to call back, they need to leave me a message!

ITA! Not only that, but I think it's extremely rude to do so. I don't have caller ID, nor do I have a burning desire to know who hung up on my answering machine (I actually wouldn't even know if they did, my machine only records if you don't hang up before the beep). I would think it was extremely weird if someone called by accident and kept listening to my message long enough to tell me they had dialed me by mistake.

If I get someone on the phone accidently I apologize and say I've got the wrong number - that's the polite thing to do. However, I would not stay on the phone and listen to a whole message if I knew I had a machine and not a person.

I've misdialed once without even knowing it. I thought it was strange that I didn't get my friend's answering machine, but figured it was broken or they were ignoring call waiting. I knew I'd had a wrong number when someone called me and without saying hello, demanded "who is this?" "why were you calling me". Very rude.

 

[msdznyduck]

I do NOT return calls unless they leave a message. If they dont bother to leave a message, I don't bother to call them back. Period.

Me either.........my phone is for MY convenience. It is not convenient for me to call back people who won't leave a message.

 

[Feralpeg]

There are a lot of strange people out there. I had a similar incident a few years ago. I dialed what I thought was my daughter's daycare number. I misdialed. When a woman answered, I realized that I made a mistake. I apologized and hung up. A few minutes later, I get a call from this woman. She wants to know why I called her number. I told her it was a mistake. She told me not to make that mistake again. What the????

 

[DawnCt1]

There are a lot of strange people out there. I had a similar incident a few years ago. I dialed what I thought was my daughter's daycare number. I misdialed. When a woman answered, I realized that I made a mistake. I apologized and hung up. A few minutes later, I get a call from this woman. She wants to know why I called her number. I told her it was a mistake. She told me not to make that mistake again. What the????

People like that make me glad that they can't see where I live....or can they??

 

[NCDisneyMom]

I work from home, so I've got caller ID in order to see if it's a personal call, or a work call that needs to be answered professionally. It's also for dh to know whether he can answer a call from a friend, or let it go to voice mail (which is for my work). Amongst my friends and family, they know that if they want me to return their call, they must leave me a message. I will not do so simply because their name is on my caller ID....since I don't usually check it to see who called while I was out. I check my voice mail, but not the ID.

 

[Poohnatic]

Yeah, I get that, too. Typically, it's when I'm at work. I'll call a candidate to come in for an interview, leave a message and then less than a minute later, the phone will ring. "Someone from there called for me?"

Way back when, my answering machine message said "You haven't called Psychic Friends. If you don't leave a message, we can't call you back"

Suzanne

 

[Lil_Tink]

I once did that, because they called alot and said , "Excuse me did you call 45830583458394535?" and they were like "Oh yes, I dialed the wrong number" Me "Ok, sorry for calling back"