"Wrong number" stories

[Sparx]

About six months after I got my cellphone number I got obsessive calls from everyone from an insurance company to an angry girlfriend looking for John Gray. I think I actually might have broken up his relationship over that one. She wouldn't stop calling me and asking why I was answering "her MAN's" phone. I finally asked her if he's her MAN why didn't he tell her he got a new phone number. She never called back after that.

 

[cheermom1]

I kept getting calls for some guy from the time I got my cell phone till about a year ago. Every business and all friends and family of this guy would call me. I kept telling them it was not his #. I verified that they dialed the right # but it was not is #. I finally asked one of the businesses that called all the time when was the last time he talked to that guy and got his #? He told me that he had just given him that # a week ago. I told him that he is giving out the wrong # to everyone as it was not his # to give! I also talked to the cell phone company and they said that it was his # before I got it. But I had had this # for the last 5 years, so why was this guy still giving people MY # as his???? At least he stopped in the last year!

 

[Plannin'Shannon]

About six months after I got my cellphone number I got obsessive calls from everyone from an insurance company to an angry girlfriend looking for John Gray. I think I actually might have broken up his relationship over that one. She wouldn't stop calling me and asking why I was answering "her MAN's" phone. I finally asked her if he's her MAN why didn't he tell her he got a new phone number. She never called back after that.

 

[cm8]

This isn't a wrong number story, but still a funny solicitor phone story.
Years ago, my mom answered the phone and could tell it was a solicitor because they said "May I speak with Mr. Name?". Of course, my mom said my dad wasn't there so the solicitor said "May I please speak with his wife, Mrs. Name?" My mom then replies "You mean he's married?!!" The lady quickly says she will call back another time and hangs up. If only you could see people's faces through the phone

, that was too funny!!

 

[surfergirl602]

In college I roomed by myself. my phone number was 555-6900. You can guess just what kind of calls I would get late on the weekends! It was aggrivating, but was no way they'd change the number.

 

[itsheresomewhere]

A few weeks ago, this man calls my cell- "Hello, This is John and I will be in town this week. I like to schedule my massage and how much this time? The tone of his voice said it all. I say excuse me. He repeats his request and I say- Sir, this is sister mary clarence and you have called Our Lady's church. He hung up so fast.


We have had our house number for almost 10 yrs. For two years, someone keep calling our house hunting Mary. This girl could not grasp the thought that Mary at school gave her the wrong number. They were supposed to go out for drinks and Mary would give her this number every week. I finally figured out that Mary would write a 7 but this girl thought it was a 2.

 

[KiminChicago]

One night my DH and I were coming home from a party so it was kind of late and just as we walked in the door the phone started ringing. I answered it and there was a woman on the other end asking if my name was Kim.

When I answered yes, she asked me if I knew XXXX. I asked who she was and how she had gotten my number. She just kept getting angrier and angrier and asking how I knew XXXX and why he had my number in his wallet and I kept trying to find out who was calling without giving out too much information. I was really tired and wanted to go to bed, so I finally snapped "he's my cousin."

The other end of the line got really silent for a second, then a sheepish voice says "this is his wife YYYY". After apologizing several times, she finally let me hang up the phone. I decided not to say anything to my cousin, but I guess she was afraid it would come out sometime so she confessed to him the next day that she had gone through his wallet while he was asleep. The only reason my cousin had my number in his wallet was that he did some work as a mechanic and I wanted him to take a look at my car....

 

[stitchlovestink]

our most recent wrong # story is quite lengthy but pretty funny...
Thru FaceBook, my best friend (from elem/middle/h.s.) and I were reunited this past December. We live about 4 miles apart in the town we grew up in (although said town is MUCH larger now). Well anyway, one day we were bored and decided we wanted to 'prank' the 3rd party (another FB friend of mine, not BF's) who was responsible for reuniting us. 3rd party lives in an adjoining state, so we decided to road trip. 3rd party had revealed enough info to me for me to know where they worked currently, their car type, vanity plate info... So we decided to 'tag' the car. Not damage it, but leave a little present on the windshield. Better yet, we were going to go take pics of their car to post on FB (w/ me beside it ). So we road trip, oh I don't know about 60ish miles (no big deal) and find the company, but unfortunately there's a guard and the business is gated.
okay, so that the trip isn't a total waste, my Best Friend, says let's call. I have a work # from emails that they had sent me. So against my protests, she calls anyway. Okay, now Best Friend and 3rd party don't know each other at all. Best friend, dials from her cell phone and her call is answered on the other end. So she is talking to this poor soul asking VERY odd questions like I hear you are very good at locating very old friends on the 'net', and I have 20 questions for you to answer, do you happen to buy your gas from the WaWa at the intersection of RTxx and RTxxx? And some other bizarre questions...similar in nature...Well after about 4 odd questions the other party hangs up on her. Best friend says well that was rude, I'm calling back. only I take her phone from her and look at it. Third party would NOT have hung up like that, not their style. So when I look at the call, I 'REALIZE' she has dialed the wrong number! She transposed two of the digits and had called some poor soul at work in NJ and we weren't in NJ. LOL. I still feel for that poor soul. They must've been wondering what we had been drinking. Best friend ended up dialing the right number, got their voice mail and called back immediately upon which they answered the phone. Well, we won't go into what happened from there, but it was a rather 'hysterically' fun filled afternoon. And who said only kids can have a good time?? We did end up getting a good practical joke over on Third party. Left 'em rather speechless shall we say!!!!

 

[dawson5]

I have several:

-When I transferred to Truman, my first roommate was named Jessica. I am named Jessica. The roommate she had before me was named Jessica. This resulted in lots of phone confusion! Whenever somebody asked for Jessica, the standard resonse was, "which one?" It always confused them when they would tell us they wanted Jessica R (the old roommate) and we would tell them that she didn't live there any more. I loved those phone calls!

-I got a call last night. I answered and somebody asked, "who is this?" I'll admit, I got a little bit fude at about 9:30/10:00 at night and responded, "you called me." I hate that! I'm not telling some random stranger who I am.

-Not a wrong number, but for awhile a guy in my hometown would call random numbers until a young sounding girl answered and he would say he wanted to leave a message for their father. He would then threaten to kill them if they hung up and would talk dirty to them. Althoguh I was older than most of his victims, I have a young voice. Thankfully my mom was home and listened in. She had heard of it so she knew what it was about and he never got that far in our conversation.

I was the only one he ever called back and he called me a total of three times (that we know of. If an adult answered he hung up). The police were actaully talking about tapping our phone if he called one more time. They caught him several years later, he worked for the phone company!

I had something like this happen to me when I was about 10--thankfully no death threats. I learned that if I hung up, they would call back. So I laid the phone down and walked away, come back an hour later and hang up. I told my mother about it and she went to the police with it. They interviewed me and eventually tapped the phone. I told them it sounded like a friend of mine, her cousin. He was older than us. They talked with her, she said he done this same thing to another friend of hers. I don't know what became of this though and my mother doesn't remember. My parents had divorced a few months earlier and we were moving after school let out. I forgot about it entirely until about two years ago. My mother was on a committee for electing a mayor. It was that guy. I don't think my mom will be working on his re-election campaign.

 

[cybrkitn]

My parents had the problem where their phone number was one number away from a small grocery store called "Meat Farms" (Long Islanders know what I'm talking about). Their phone number ended in 18 and Meat Farms ended in 19. We would always get calls from people asking if it was Meat Farms.

A few years prior to my father passing away in 2008, they decided to change over to having their phone through the cable company. This was prior to where you can move your phone number over, so they had to get a new number. Since then, my mom hasn't had any problems with wrong numbers.

 

[pixiefairy]

My mom used to have some older lady call and just say "Nina?". My mother always felt so bad for her when she would have to tell her that no....this was STILL not Nina's residence.

I answered a call one night on my cell phone....the guy asked for someone else, I told him wrong number. He proceeded to then try and have a conversation with me, asking me my name, telling me I had a nice voice, etc. He tried to call back a few more times, but I ignored the calls. It was really creepy.

 

[MnParrothead]

Our telephone number is an "easy number" that is one digit off from two pharmacies so we get wrong number calls probably twice a week. Sometimes I'm tempted to answer, "May I help you?" but since they are trying to get through to the pharmacy (and not a pizza place or retail establishment), I am nice and give people the correct number.

 

[bonoriffic]

We had a team meeting at work and someone was working from home. He was supposed to call in to the meeting. The meeting is starting and right on time the conference phone rings. I just assumed it was our co-worker, hit speakerphone and said "are we ready?". Well the guy on the phone was ready, but it wasn't the co-worker. He immediately began describing the sexual acts he wanted to do.

 

[luvmy3jewels]

My father is known for pranking people who call his house with the wrong number and reading this thread brought back a lot of funny memories. Dad even once struck up an odd kind of friendship with one "wrong caller" who ended up calling every now and then whenever he was lonely (and drunk).

The funniest memory I have is when a lady once left a message on my parent's answering machine saying that she was calling for the results of her blood test (their number was similar to a local dr's office). Well, my dad returned her call and asked if this was "Mrs. Miller" (or whatever her name was. When she replied that it was, he told her that the blood test results showed that she was pregnant! He said there was a long pause and then she said "WHAT?" Dad told her he was just kidding and that she had left her message on the wrong answering machine and he just wanted to let her know so she could call the right number. She laughed and told him that it scared her because she was 50 years old and thought those days were over!

 

[cybrkitn]

We had a team meeting at work and someone was working from home. He was supposed to call in to the meeting. The meeting is starting and right on time the conference phone rings. I just assumed it was our co-worker, hit speakerphone and said "are we ready?". Well the guy on the phone was ready, but it wasn't the co-worker. He immediately began describing the sexual acts he wanted to do.

 

[wvjules]

Here's one I posted from 2003!

My mother gave me a list of people to call after her surgery. I called this guy named Bob (I have no idea who he is). I read the number to be XXX-XXX-9139. So I called it and left a message with the man's wife. She seemed to have no idea what I was talking about. I asked if this was Bob XXXX's number and she said yes. So I repeated what I had said and she said she'd give him the message.

A couple hours later my cell phone rings with "Blocked Caller" listed. I answered it and the woman asked me if I called this number that it was on her callerID. I said, I made some calls this morning but I didn't think that was one of them. I also told her that the phone had been in the bottom of my purse and it might have been an accident.

On my way to pick up DD the phone rings again with "Blocked Caller" again. It was Bob. He asked if I called and left a message with his wife about someone being in the hospital. I told him I did. When he got home his wife asked him if there was anything he needed to tell her b/c of my phone call. He told me that I might have ruined his marriage. Apparently his wife thought he was having an affair and LEFT HIM. I told him that he could have her call me and I'd try to straighten it out.

After that I looked at the number again. I guess it was actually XXX-XXX-9134. Oops!!!!

So I called the right number and asked to speak with Bob. Bob is actually a woman. I explained what happened to her and asked her that if Bob called me back, would she call his wife (so her number would come up on the callerID) and explain this mix up to his wife if she didn't believe me.

What are the chances that my wrong number would have 2 people named BOB???? I know it's a common name, but wow....

Anyway, I haven't heard from Bob's wife yet.

Oh and Bob is actually Barb. lol

 

[englishteacha]

My husband keeps getting messages on his voice mail for someone else's doctor's appointments. Since it's a tracfone and we don't use it often, it's really annoying to turn it on and have 3 or 4 messages that aren't for you!

 

[PUZZLDY5]

We recently had a call here and the guy asked for John. Sorry no John here. Then proceeded to ask for Jane. Strike two dude. Then told me I was lying. I hung up the phone. My DH told me to let him answer the phone. Luckly they didn't call back.

 

[MouseJunkie]

Luckly our number is blocked..so we have not got any wrong numbers for years.. We used to get the local kid playing pranks and such..

My grandma was one digit off from the local pizza place... and when they kept calling one night she decided to start taking orders... Happened for many years.

So, that's why I never got my pizza! That actually happened one night to me and my cousin. Apparently, someone just "took" our order.

 

[tonilea]

DH answered the phone and some schmuck from FingerHut wanted to speak to me. We don't buy things from FH, so DH knew this was a mistake or a sales call, so he decided to have a bit of fun. He told the guy that he knew who he "really was" and accused him of having an affair with me. LOL He had the poor guy stumbling all over himself.

Ya know, I don't think we have ever gotten another call from them.