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Posted: Jun 02 2008 07:54 pm

So today, around the time I was expecting a call from my mom, a call came in on my cellphone from a number I didn't recognize. Since I was expecting a call, I picked up. It was some weird guy with a foreign accent, possibly Russian. His reception was terrible so I couldn't really hear him, but he clearly had the wrong number. So I said "You have the wrong number!" and I hung up. He called back 30 seconds later and I ignored it.

So then I got a voicemail from him. It said: "I was sure this was my daughter Alana's number, XXX-XXX-5535. If I am wrong, please let me know."

Well, XXX-XXX-5535 may very well be his daughter's number. Unfortunately for him, MY number is XXX-XXX-2269. HE WASN'T EVEN FUCKING CLOSE! Now, to be fair, 2 is right above 5 on a keypad and 6 is right below 3, but 5 and 9 are NOWHERE FUCKING NEAR EACH OTHER.

Now, I don't want to play on stereotypes here. I'm not the type of guy who thinks that all immigrants are ignorant, worthless people who should be shot or deported. However, I do think this particular guy deserves to be shot or deported. How the hell do you dial 2269 instead 5535, not once, but twice? You gotta be pretty fucking stupid.

So needless to say, I have no sympathy for the man and I made no attempt to let him know that he had made a mistake. I did however attempt to text him the following message: "I am wearing your daughter's head as a hat."

Unfortunately, he had called from a house line so the message bounced. Oh well.

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My Internet's not working at my house, so I had to wait till about an hour and 40 minutes ago to come to a coffee shop to surf the net.

Also, can you explain why Mick Jagger's singing for the most part sucks on "Get Your Ya-Ya's out?"

Posted: Jun 02 2008 08:47 pm

I have an awesome wrong number story 8DDD

One day at 3 in the fucking morning, I got a call on my cell from California (I live nowhere near California). I hit the ignore button, since I was almost asleep and I don't have any close friends in California. Unfortunately, they called back again, and this time I answered it (thinking it might be an internet friend or something?)

Me: *sounding sleepy as fuck* Hello?
Girl: Hi, is Alex there?
Me: ... who?
Girl: Can I talk to Alex?
Me: ... *not quite hearing this correctly* I'm sorry, who are you trying to get a hold of?
Girl: Can I talk to Alejandro?

At this point I tried to turn the volume up a bit and accidently hung up on her instead. I didn't bother calling back, since I don't know any Alex (at all!) and I am clearly not a man. No matter though, she called back that same night twice. You think my voice mail in Japanese would clue her in that she's got the totally wrong phone number, but no such luck. She kept calling back about 8 times over the next two days, until I finally answered the phone again and when she asked for Alex, I told her she had the wrong number and hung up.

Well, that wasn't enough for her and she called me back again the following day. I had this conversation with her:

Me: *answering phone* Hello?
Girl: *apparently recognizing my voice* .... so, does Alex not use this number anymore?
Me: Alright, how did you get this number? And who are you trying to get a hold of?
Girl: ... Alex, I got it from a guy named Alex that I met. He said this was his number.
Me: Do you live in California?
Girl: What? No, I live in [name of my city].
Me: Oh, well it says you're calling from California... Anyway, um, no, this is my personal cell phone and I don't even know anyone named Alex.
Girl: So he doesn't use this number anymore?
Me: I've had this cell phone number for around six years. So unless he was using it over six years ago...
Girl: ... so he's not using this number anymore then?
Me: ... *sighs* No, this is my cell phone and I don't know anyone named Alex.
Girl: ... alright, thank you.

My theory? She banged some guy and he gave her a fake number and now she was trying desperately to get a hold of him all "oo bb i miss u" kind of thing. Or she thought I was his current girlfriend and she was trying to get a hold of him. I dunno, I can't explain why she kept fucking calling when I clearly told her "I don't know who you're talking about, you have the wrong number."

God I hate people. :/

Posted: Jun 02 2008 08:52 pm

JRA wrote:

Also, can you explain why Mick Jagger's singing for the most part sucks on "Get Your Ya-Ya's out?"

It's been awhile since I listened to it, but I remember it being pretty good.

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Hopefully he wasn't Russian mob:

Posted: Jun 03 2008 10:16 am

so, syd, you try hooking up w/the daughter?

Posted: Jun 03 2008 10:36 am

aika wrote:

I
My theory? She banged some guy and he gave her a fake number and now she was trying desperately to get a hold of him all "oo bb i miss u" kind of thing. Or she thought I was his current girlfriend and she was trying to get a hold of him. I dunno, I can't explain why she kept fucking calling when I clearly told her "I don't know why you're talking about, you have the wrong number."

God I hate people. :/

Better yet, he knocked her up and she was looking for her baby daddy......Alejandro.....haha.

I'm just picturing a guy that sounds like Antonio Banderas in Four Rooms

Yes, my name is Alejandro, and I weeeelll take good c'hare of you......

Posted: Jun 03 2008 10:48 am

funny, thats my middle name.

Posted: Jun 03 2008 12:38 pm

username wrote:

funny, thats my middle name.

Oh snap, you're not banging (clearly mentally deficient) girls in one night stands and giving them my cell number as your fake phone number are you?! Evil

Posted: Jun 03 2008 01:12 pm

I get wrong phone number calls all the time, but I think the best was:

A fax machine used to call my house at night repeatedly, trying to send ad's or some shit. I hooked up a fax machine we had laying around and it was ad's for car shit. So I faxed them goatse. The calls stopped for awhile at least.

Posted: Jun 03 2008 01:23 pm

I got a call from some random number 3 times in one day. At the third call, I said to my friend "This number has been calling all day". And he says "Let me answer it" so he does.

Jacob (My friend): Hello?
???: Is Steve there?
Jacob: No, this is my friend Frank's phone. Who is this?
???: Martha
Jacob: Well, Martha, it looks like you have the wrong number.
Martha: Oh. Sorry. Bye.
Jacob: Bye. FUCKING BITCH! *hangs up phone*
Jacob: All taken care of.

Posted: Jun 03 2008 01:29 pm

So this all reminds me. What's the right thing to do when you get a call on your cell that you miss, but when you look at the number, it's not one you recognize, and they didn't leave a message?

I have friends who call the number back, and I have people who just ignore it. What do you guys do? :/

I tend to ignore them (if they want to get a hold of me, I'm sure they'll call back) but my friend would always call the number back. Sometimes she'd even snitch my phone when I got one of those calls and call the person back for me.

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One time i was at my dorm, sound asleep and the phone rang at 3:00AM. I panicked thinking it was my family and something was wrong. Nope, it was some Indian guy (forehead diamond not feather dress) asking if his daughter was present. I restrained from saying "Yah she's here and we were kind of in the middle of something" and instead told him he had the wrong number and hung up. Oddly enough a month earlier an Indian girl called me at like 11:00 at night asking if someone she knew as there. I would like to know if this is the same person they were looking for and i would like there phone number and address so i can order tons of dominos and have them delivered to their house. . . . at 3:00AM.

Posted: Jun 03 2008 01:38 pm

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:

it was some Indian guy (forehead diamond not feather dress) asking if his daughter was present. I restrained from saying "Yah she's here and we were kind of in the middle of something"

HAH. You should've gone with that. Laughing

Posted: Jun 03 2008 02:47 pm

I work at an answering service and I freaking hate it when people dal the wrong number. They acutally get mad because I'm not whoever they're trying to call, like it's my fault they misdialed. Mad

Posted: Jun 03 2008 09:30 pm

I can guess the dorm calling would be pretty common, seeing as that phone number is linked to the room over a number of years.

Speaking of college, there were two three-digits beginnings to all the numbers in the non-college part of Amherst: 256 and 549. My number had one and the pizza place down the street had the other. We had the same last 4 digits. You can guess how many times wasted college kids called the apartment. Fucking drunks.

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S. McCracken wrote:

I can guess the dorm calling would be pretty common, seeing as that phone number is linked to the room over a number of years.

Speaking of college, there were two three-digits beginnings to all the numbers in the non-college part of Amherst: 256 and 549. My number had one and the pizza place down the street had the other. We had the same last 4 digits. You can guess how many times wasted college kids called the apartment. Fucking drunks.

Next time that happens, dress as a pizza delivery guy and deliver them a nice juicy pizza with everything (everything could include non-traditional topping like doggy love juice)

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aika wrote:

So this all reminds me. What's the right thing to do when you get a call on your cell that you miss, but when you look at the number, it's not one you recognize, and they didn't leave a message?

I have friends who call the number back, and I have people who just ignore it. What do you guys do? :/

I tend to ignore them (if they want to get a hold of me, I'm sure they'll call back) but my friend would always call the number back. Sometimes she'd even snitch my phone when I got one of those calls and call the person back for me.

I don't even answer the phone if i dont reconize the number.

Posted: Jun 05 2008 06:11 pm

JEW wrote:

aika wrote:

So this all reminds me. What's the right thing to do when you get a call on your cell that you miss, but when you look at the number, it's not one you recognize, and they didn't leave a message?

I have friends who call the number back, and I have people who just ignore it. What do you guys do? :/

I tend to ignore them (if they want to get a hold of me, I'm sure they'll call back) but my friend would always call the number back. Sometimes she'd even snitch my phone when I got one of those calls and call the person back for me.

I don't even answer the phone if i dont reconize the number.

same here.
leave a message if you want, son. otherwise i aint answering

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well i left my phone number in my AIM away message one day, and tish saw my screenname on the board, got my phone number, and tried to call me.

so It's a good thing I don't answer the phone.

Posted: Jun 05 2008 08:00 pm

I always thought she had a thing for you...

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

ugh.

Posted: Jun 05 2008 08:08 pm

L.O.L.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

you're the only one laughing, and that's because you didn't have to deal with her.

Posted: Jun 05 2008 08:22 pm

You're right. And because I'm obviously like 100% cooler than she ever was.