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Hi all!
The other day I got a text from someone who obviously had the wrong number... it said something like, Hey mom this is Chris can you help me get my phone turned on, I'll pay half.
I just replied, I'm sorry, but you've got the wrong number, and that was it.
So, have any of you gotten strange, interesting or funny text messages from someone who had the wrong number?
please share! :)
That's kind of ironic that you would get a text asking for help getting a phone turned on. haha.
I think the funniest one I got was: "hey, *insert name here*. It's me. Just making sure I have your number right". I replied with: "No, you don't". Haha.
I've got some rather strange texts over the years. One of them I got a few years ago said "Hey babe, sorry I got so pissed." I've gotten a few from a doctor wishing one of his patients happy birthday, and a one telling someone that she tried to call her, but she keeps getting someone who sounds like a little girl.
Leslie
Wow. You'd think the person calling and getting someone who sounds like a little girl would get the hint after awhile? O well. I guess not.
I've never gotten text messages from people I didn't know, with the exception of ones that are scams.
Hmm, interesting topic. I haven't gotten any strange or funny texts like that, but I got some strange phone calls in college, at my room number. Some guy who called himself Boots kept calling and asking for Jessica or Jess, but I obviously wasn't the Jess he wanted to speak to. Whenever my roommate handed me the phone, he said something like, "Hey baby." I told him he had the wrong number, but he called several more times. One day when my roommate and I were talking to our R.A., we told her about that, and she suggested I break up with him. I thought that was a funny idea and tried to figure out how I would do it, but he didn't call back.
I've never had strange texts from a wrong number. However, I have had strange voicemails from a wrong number. Apparently this guy had been on a dating cite, and was trying to get in touch with a girl he met there. I have never been on any dating cites, so I have no idea how he got my number. Anyways, I checked my voicemails, and he was like, " hey baby. I wanna hear from you real soon. Okay?" It was hilarious and freaky at the same time. He called again, and I answered, and I think he was super embarrassed when he found out he had the wrong number. lol
I've gotten scam texts too, but thankfully not many.
That reminds me of the strangest, and also the creepiest, wrong number phone call I've ever received. some guy called, and apparently didn't recognize my voice, because he said, in a very awkward tone: O, Uh, I...think...I have the wrong number". I said goodbye and hung up. Not 5 minutes later, he called back and added: "You sound really hot, though. Are you single and over the age of 20?"
That's funny.
I just remembered something. One time, I did get a random text from a number. It was a guy who apparently had a friend in the past with my number. I told him that I was not the girl he was looking for, but he kept on texting me. He wanted to know what I looked like, where I lived, and wouldn't stop after I told him that information was none of his damn business. Finally, he stopped after I quit responding to his text messages. He never actually called me though. Thank god.
wow... some of these are rather strange/creepy lol!
I actually talked to a lady for 3 weeks. She miss text me and I explained, but she kept on. I kept inviting her to just call me before I'd tell her who I was, I mean she had my number right, so. Lol
The funny one was when one morning someone was mad and was telling someone off and cursing them out. I text back, "does your mother know you can text? Does she know you talk like this? After a few of these they saw they had one number wrong. Lol
I don't text, but the strangest voice mail I've ever gotten was from someone wanting to know about my restaurant menu. My voice mail says exactly this: Hi, this is Becky, and you've reached my cell phone voice mail." So what part of that message made the person think they had reached a restaurant? Sometimes I think when people dial a number, they hear what they expect to hear so it doesn't necessarily dawn on them that they've gotten the wrong number.
Slightly off topic I know, but has anyone ever gotten a call from someone who thought they had the wrong number for some reason, but actually had the right one? I have. Someone called for my stepdad, and apparently didn't know that he now had stepchildren, so they were convinced they had the wrong number when a kid answered. Lol.
yeah that happened to me too. when I was at my grandmother's, the phone rang and I answered it, and the person thought they had the wrong number at first because they didn't recognize my voice lol.
The only time that has happened to me was when I answered the phone and said,
"Joe's creamitorium. You kill 'em. We grill 'em."
This was when my little brothers friend called, and he was like sorry I got the wrong number. I had my brother call him back though. It was hilarious.
I've only just started texting, so I have little to contribute there. That said, I remember being around 11 years old and having a guy call the house. he sounded like one of those big birley specimens? When I said hello, he said "Cindy? Heeeey baby, how's it going?"
I also used to get voicemails from people who didn't say anything. I knew they were there; they kept playing with the phone. It happened many times. finally I said "look, if you're going to keep doing this, at least have the decency to play some music or something." They did the next time, but after that they stopped.
lol glymmer that is too funny hahahaha! :)
I got a text from someone one time asking if I had a 12 pack in my cooler, so I texted back, "I got your 12 pack" and she text back YeHaw Funny thing is, this kept me on her contact list, so every time she sends out a text for 4h, I get the latest updates! I don't have the heart now to tell her I don't know her!
Go to her meeting. Bring her 12 pack. You'll meet her. Lol
Once, when I was about 7, someone called my house. I think it was a woman, and she had a very distinctive accent. When I asked who she was, she kept saying pussy galore. now, being 7, I had no idea what that meant, so i thought it was one of my aunts playing a prank or something, so my parents came to see what I was laughing about, and when I said pussy galore to them they got pretty mad, took the phone from me and yelled at whoever it was. Lol. Let's see, I've gotten calls from people who have the wrong number, and I politely tell them that, and then 2 seconds later they call back. That's happened to me several times. But as far as i know, I haven't gotten any strange texts.
One time I called a wrong number, and it turned out to be some creep who continued to text me for a few hours. They got bored after I refused to respond to them.
Another thing I take great pleasure in doing is harassing telemarketers who call my cell phone. If it's a female, I purposely try to make them uncomfortable by asking them bizzarre questions, i.e. if they are single, want a one night stand, etc. Other times I just yell real loud in the phone and act like I can't hear them.
Speaking of telemarketers, one of them called me, and sneezed in the middle of his intro. Normally I would have tried my best to hold back my laughter, but this time, I laughed as hard as I dared, right into the phone. I probably sounded like a psycho, but it worked. I never got a call from that number again.
hahahaha that's halarious!
oh I love telemarketers.
I had one call our house when I still lived at home, I answer and the man tried to get me to buy a bumper sticker to support the military. I told him they wouldn't let me drive, he asked me why, I told him I wasn't sure.
Then I started to act as if I had some mental issues. I laughed like people with autism do and kept him going until he was laughing so hard he had to hang up. LOL
I wouldn't want to be a telemarketer for sure! lol!
there's a reason nobody wants those jobs. hahaha!
I have had some rather strange wrong number things happen with in the past year. I got a new iphone for christmas, and with the new phone a new number. Now this number had previously belonged to a male soldier. I know this because people kept calling me asking if Ben was back from base yet or something, but on to my story. I started getting texts one day from a wrong number. They proceded to ask for Ben, and when I told them they had the wrong number they asked me how long I'd had the phone ect. Having answered their questions to a certain point the person was still not convinced, so they called me. Instead of saying oh sorry wrong number bye. They were like see ya later. I was like um no. I also received a text asking if I wanted to go to a strip club. I had no time to think of anything to say back, because I was busy in a skype call or I would have totally done something funny.
Again with my bringing back old topics...My sister used to get all kinds of strange texts (though I never have). Once, she got one that read "Oh my Gosh, Rebecca! We're pregnant!" Her response: "Are you sure its his?" Mean, but funny. "Rebecca...how could you say that?" This, mind you, after the strange person had texted her several times and my sister had told her she had the wrong number. Another time somebody texted her: "Ugh, I made two lasagnas today and now I don't feel like making supper for myself." her response: "I think you're just lazy".
Lol the funniest part of the first post in this topic is that, if they needed help getting their phone turned on, how the hell were they texting in the first place?
I changed my number during the middle of last year. Around Christmas, I got a text from the sister of the person who had my number previously, saying something about how she wished they were closer and hoping her sister had a merry Christmas. I also got a text from that person's grandmother saying the same thing. Whoever she was, I guess she really made a clean break from her family members. And her doctors, considering I had to call 2 or 3 offices and let them know that they were calling the wrong number.
Fortunately now I have an IPhone, and I've made it a habit to put a name with a number in all my contacts. So if I get a text from someone I don't know the number will only show up. So far nothing like that has happened, I just got a couple advertising calls.
When I had my first phone number, I used to get strange calls and texts all the time. I ended up learning a lot about this guy named Santos.
He had a lot of medical problems and collection agents on his trail, and did I mention the loan sharks all trying to get a hold of him. And then, i'd get texts from his hookers he'd hired in the past. I got so sick of having that number, because apparently he just kept giving it to people.
I called collection agents back, doctors, etc... the collectors usually never called me back, but the medical doctors said they couldn't make that change based on my word of mouth... they'd have to talk to the patient about it...
this all being the case, I did get a few really creepy calls from loan sharks Probably the strangest one I answered went a little something like this.
Considered I had friends at the time who called from private numbers, sometimes answering these people if I expected a call was unavoidable.
me "hello?"
guy "Hi, is santose there? Why do you have his phone? If he's there now, please pass it over..."
me. "Nope, you've got the wrong number."
Guy. " What? Wrong number?
"me. "i'm a 19 year old mostly white kid from the suburbs, do you seriously think I sound like an apparently mexican guy in his forties? If I knew where this guy was, I'd tell you, because he's giving everyone he knows my number as his contact number.
man. "how long have you had this number?
me. "about six months."
man. "DAm, i'm truly sorry i've wasted your time. You've probably worked out by now that the man i'm after has a lot of debts. I'm just trying to collect my money, in what ever way I can. If he ever contacts you tell him they're looking for you. Tell him he better have the money, and that he best turn himself over to us quietly. Tell him, that because i've had to spend hours tracking him down, he best hope i'm in a good mood when we finally meet again.
Me. Haven't heard from this dumb ass, ever, but if I do, i'll let him know.
He thanked me for my time, and hung up. As strange as it sounds, he really did sound like one of those guys strait out of a mexican gang movie.
Seems the word got out after that, and none of those guys called again, though the collection agents and doctors never stopped.
when I got my second number, I got a text at 8 or so at night from a kid wondering where her mom was, because she was supposed to be picked upp from school 4 hours ago.
I felt really bad for the kid, but couldn't help.
Oh my god, Ok. No weird texts, but some of the funniest wrong numbers I've got are the following. I was getting a lot of calls for Michaela Mahoney, so I had to change my voicemail because they were leaving voicemails, but the funnier one was the calls about the car. I musta gotten about 6 calls about a car I was selling. Lmfao.
Lol yes great topic.
Don't believe I've ever gotten a strange text but I've had a few wrong numbers calling and they sounded like they were in night clubs having the time of their lives.
I got one call and I still don't know if it was a wrong number or not. A couple of years ago this guy called me and said he's friend told me I was "hot" and that he should call me; Said I wasn't interested - I was single then but no thanks.
My Nan got one severl years ago thanking her for the "awesome date last night and let's do it again babe." :)
I had to change my number last year after my girlfriend at the time gave my old one to all the people she owes money to. It got to te point where the only calls coming in on that line were from people wanting money from her. But since I got the number I have now I've gotten more wrong number calls than texts, though a few of the latter have come in. Mostly I keep getting these calls from a pharmacy in St. George, Utah telling me that my prescription is ready to be picked up. At first I ignored them since I knew I had never done business with that particular pharmacy (I live in Idaho after all not Utah), but when I realized that it was an automated system and would therefore probably continue to call me indefiitely with these voicemails I dialed 411 ans looked up the Walgreens in question. Trying to call back the number that had called me only resulted in either a fax machine or a busy signal. So I had to look up the main store's number and ask for the Pharmacy department. The problem is that I've now called them a total of four times to tell them that the person they were looking for could no longer be reached at that number. Each time they said they'd delete my number from te computer, but a few days later I'd get more calls. The most recent was a few days ago and the guy I talked to talked about a glitch in their system that's making it keep calling me even though my number's supposedly no longer in their databanks.
Ok a couple of wrong number situations come to mind.
For some reason a phone number of mine had been a pizza place's number. So me and my friends would be sitting around, smoking up and having a good time, the phone would ring, some stoner (often it was) would call asking for a pizza. So we would do some strange trip about they could get money off if they would let us suggest some alternate toppings. After we went round for a few minutes on that, we'd hang up, and when they called back pissed in an hour asking where their pizza was, another one of us would answer the phone and just say, "Sorry, you have the wrong number."
The other instance that comes to mind is on a dare as a teenager I answered the phone "Oregon Department of Corrections: Governor's office, is this a stay or shall we proceed with the execution?" You have to remember this was during the 1980s when there was that moral panic, at least among middle class white parents, about the effects of death metal, movies like the Faces of Death series, and all. Well she kinda went off on that one, saying we were all gonna turn out, whatever it was they said we were gonna turn out, which never happened.
Also this was before caller ID.
Ah Leo Leo, how evil you were! ROFL :)
Caller ID has really ruined lots of phone fun, has it not? lol
Anyway, back in the mid-90's, I had one of those pagers where people could leave a voice message and my pager would go off and I could play the audio. Pretty cool for back in the day.
Anyway, one night I got a page in the middle of the night from this guy calling me a bitch and basically reeming me out for treating him like the dog he must have been. It was pretty threatening and scary at the time as I lived alone.
As for telemarketers, woe, to the one who calls my house when I'm feeling spunky. lol I like to just blert out random things or start yelling at my husband like we're in the middle of a good fight or something.
Also, the person who had our number before had apparently skipped out on quite a few debts so that's always interesting. It's not related but I'm kinda waiting for the cops to show up at my door because the person who lived here before us has some outstanding tickets and warrents. We keep getting letters about it in the mail.
That actually happened to me once in college. I was sound asleep and at 3:30 in the a.m. the Arlington PD comes banging on my door. It scared the hell out of me. lol They were very nice though considering I had no clue about whom they were asking.
I remember another incident when I was up in Boise, Idao at the Commission for the Blind's Assessment and Training Center as they called it. THey basically leased apartments for their students to live in while you took their classes. You didn't have to pay for anything for the apartment unless the property manager had to go in and clean it. You would pay for that. But you got a phone number and a phone, primarily so the staff could reach you if need be since they didn't want to make a long distance call to reach you on your cell. The problem was that the number I got had apparently at one time belonged to a pool store. So I'd get calls from all these people asking when we were going to come open their pool and asking if we had pool covers. Then whe I was living in Oregon before I moved out here, I was living with my sister. Te number we got had once belonged to what I assume was an elderly nun, because the people who called used to ask for Sister Allan. The problem was tat even when one of us answered the phone and gently explained to the elderly lady who was looking for this individual that she had the wrong number, she'd keep calling.
For those of you who are disappointed that you believe you can't prank call without getting your number seen, I have some good news. If you dial *67 followed by the number, your number will not come up in the caller ID. I think they may still be able to trace it, but the only reason they would need to do that is if you made some sort of threat or said, or planned to do something illegal that would affect the person. Have fun, and I didn't tell you this. :d
Lol we have that service here in Aus too, only I sadly can't remember the numbers one has to dial before hand.
I use to love pranking calling people when I was young; totally wrong, but I'd get such a kick out of it.
This is starting to kind of go off track not, but when I was little, we use to call random numbers from phone boxes and you were able to talk for a second or two before it would cut you off. So of course, I use to love doing that. :)
LOL. Hope you never got a bartender like Moe on The Simpsons, who'd threaten to carve his name on your back with an ice pick if he ever caught you. LOL.
ouch!
Yeah really. LOL. Then I used to get calls when I first moved in with my sister. It was a kid who kept asking for some guy named Hassam or something. But regardless of ow many times he got told he had the wrong number he kept calling. It almost made me want to pull a Moe LOL.
This has been so entertaining to read!
I've had three numbers in the past four years. The first was on my dad's Metro plan and now belongs to my sister. The second was Metro, too, but my own plan, and when I switched to Verizon I carried it over. But then all my students started clambering for my number, and since I'm their friend as well as a junior counselor, I felt obligated to give it. Well, one or two of them called incessantly, so I had to change it. Throughout the years I've gotten calls for an Omar, a Brandon, and a Rowena respectively, and some of the calls were collections oriented, but others had me worried about the individuals themselves. Not a fun experience to have. I haven't had one of those calls in a while, though, so I think all of that's been fixed.
As far as texts, I don't think I've ever gotten a wrong number text, but I have sent one. Runner Ryan got a new number, and it was one hell of a bitch to key in, for some reason. I texted so he had mine, and it turned out I got a girl named Ariel who went to an arts school. We made friends and talked for a few days. It was kinda cool, actually. And this wasn't a text, but wrong number phone calls seem to be much more common. Once upon a time I got a call from a 216 number at four in the morning. When the man realized he had the wrong number, he asked if he could get to know me anyway. Obviously I said fuck no.
And since we've gotten to telemarketers and pranks, I've played a good few pranks with friends and sisters (using the aforementioned *67, of course). Nonsensical chats in funny accents, answering with "Garland City Morgue" (a favorite of my ex's), speaking in Spanish to a clueless collector. But I think my favorite was back when I was a senior in high school, and a Navy recruiter phoned my house. Since they're not allowed to keep record of who has a disability and who doesn't, they had no idea I was blind. So I listened attentively to his speel, and when it was my turn to speak, I said, "Sir, I'm blind, and one of my best friends is in the Guard. He called me the other day while his friends were learning to use a new type of gun so I could hear what it sounded like. I thought it was pretty nifty. I was wondering, do y'all have accessible weaponry?" The man was absolutely stunned, so I had to reassure him I was joking, thanked him for his service, and we hung up.
Also, have any of you ever been friendly with or even flirted with by a customer service rep? I swear, the other night I was on the phone with Verizon for at least a half-hour having smalltalk with this guy. It was kinda weird, except that he was totally not creepy! Hahahahah! I found that super amusing.
What about butt calls? Have you ever made or received them? My ex always butt-dialed me, because at one point he had a touchscreen phone, and another, a more basic phone whose buttons were exposed. Nothing super hilarious happened, but one time he called me three times in the middle of Spanish class. I was afraid for his life, and of course it turned out he'd forgotten to lock the damned thing. Haha!
As for a text I got one today from someone looking for Joe. Apparently it was his birthday LOL. Then I occasionally get calls from drunk or stoned folks looking for their pals.
I've been getting these texts from people that show their emails, and I've never seen them before. They usually contain only a comma or colon in them, or some sort of punctuation. It's strange because I never got texts like these until I got my IPhone.
The other day I got a text saying: hey, it's me. Lol! That was odd. No number. :D
That's definitely odd. LOL.