The other day, while I was in a tutorial, a number called my cell phone twice. The number came from Kansas City, Missouri. I figured that it was just a telemarketer calling, as my cell phone number isn't a typical one (in SJ, at least, most cell phone numbers have unique prefixes). The number called again today, and this time I was able to answer it. They were looking for a major! I was slightly freaked by this.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
A major ... asshole?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
O4
Did you tell them to get bent???
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
A major as in a military officer or a law enforcement officer
And I told them that they'd reached a cell phone. The guy on the other end apologized profusely and then hung up.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
So you didn't hear noises in the background along the lines of a door being broken down, shouts, a burst of automatic fire, and then the call ended abruptly?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Major Kira!?!
The funniest thing has happened to me, I was at uni one day, and my phone rang - and I didn't recognise the number. I missed it - but retrieved the missed call and rang it back. It was a confusing call at first. We quickly worked out that it was a wrong number. Except his name was ALSO Andrew!! LOL! His mobile phone number differed by just one digit. He lived in Tasmania, while I'm in Queensland. The thing is - I think he's spoken to mum before, because mum rang a wrong number before when trying to ring me and thought it was me mucking around and it turned out to be a wrong number... with an "Andrew" on the other end of the line! LOL! He was very nice about it. And we both had a chuckle.
Andrew
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
i wish i had a chuckle. unfortunately, i have two exams to go take now, so it shall be some time before i ever chuckle again.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I hope that isn't a link to a picture of Charles Capps with a 'nick name' version of Charles
Hey Chuckles! Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
On a similar note, the other day at work I was riding on the elevator when the elevator's phone rang. This being a very rare occurrance (the phone is used for people stuck in the elevator to call out, not for people to call in), I decided to answer it. It turned out to be a telemarketer. I politely told her that I wasn't trying to make her feel stupid, but she just called an elevator. Feeling stupid anyway, she said thank you and hung up.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
LOL! How bizarre - I would have thought those phones were connected to an outside line/outside of an emergency call. Maybe someone gave her/her company that number to stop them calling their real number!?! Heh.
I have another 'wrong number' story. We have two phone lines at home - a dedicated 'telephone' line and one for the internet. The Internet line doesn't have the phone hooked up to it very often - for obvious reasons. Only if someone is using the other line and you have to make a call (and that no one is on-line). Anyway one night, late, my brother had the second line with the phone plugged into it up in the office. At about 11 o'clock/midnight that phone rang - which was very bizarre. That number is also silent - and we never give it out (like what would be the point). Anyway it was this guy wanting to speak to a girl... for argument's sake let's call her Jenny. He was adament he needed to speak to Jenny. I'm there telling him no one of that name lives at this address. I hang up - the phone rings again, it's the same guy - thinking I'm Jenny's brother mucking around (I think he was drunk). I said "no mate, you have the wrong number". He did take that as an answer and was going on and on about how he wanted to speak to Jenny, and how she gave him that number etc. LOL! She gave him a bogus number (probably at a nightclub or something) and she must have given that number which was our second line. It's never ever used, so I wonder how many times he's tried ringing 'Jenny' and it's been engaged with the internet, or he's heard a modem screech!?! heheheheh. Go Jenny! Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: I hope that isn't a link to a picture of Charles Capps with a 'nick name' version of Charles
Hey Chuckles!
LOL, considering the link is to candydirect, or some other nonsense, i should hope that it's not a link to anything besides candy!
Posted by Solommagnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
One time, I answered the phone, and they asked for someone. BUT! Here's the kicker: That person didn't live here! And probably didn't ever! HOLY SHIT!
And then, after explaining the situation, our phone romance clicked and we moved to Vermont and married.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
What a linthole.
Posted by Solommagnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
A navel?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Solommagnus de Pym: One time, I answered the phone, and they asked for someone. BUT! Here's the kicker: That person didn't live here! And probably didn't ever! HOLY SHIT!
And then, after explaining the situation, our phone romance clicked and we moved to Vermont and married.
You forgot to add that you joined a cult, and the person was a trans-sexual named Francis.
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