HELLO. I TOLD YOU THAT YOU HAVE THE WRONG NUMBER. THIS IS NOT THE CLINIC. PLEASE STOP CALLING THIS NUMBER, WRONG NUMBER GUY. MY NOT-CLINICNESS IS NOT CHANGING ANYTIME SOON. THANK YOU, THAT IS ALL.
For months at my old flat I would get calls for Lucky Star Employment Agency. At 6fAM. At 9:30. Sometimes it would be the same woman every two hours. "Hello, Agency?" she'd whisper. But the good thing about CallerID is that at least I knew she wasn't the lone crazy. Man, it was a ton of calls. I half-thought about setting up my own emp agency just to do something about it. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
LOL -oh can I relate!! I answer the switchboard at a large Los Angeles law firm and get to speak to every freak in the city!
My fav was the gal who found our number in the phone book under "medical" - and then got all pissed off cause we DEFEND the doctors and we wouldn't take her case! Love it when they ask "can you help me??" ya sure, here - *click*
"if you are calling a clinic, you are definitely calling th wrong number. if you are blind, i strongly suggest you get somebody else to dial the phone for you. if you are plain stupid, then i suggest that you don't use the phone at all."
I live in a college dorm. I got a call from Sears one time - the guy was asking if this was the so-and-so residence. It was a family name; can't remember what, but it wasn't mine. I told him he had the wrong number, and he was like, "Are you sure they don't live there?" I'm sitting here thinking, "This is a really, really small dormroom on a college campus. If there were other people living with me, I would know. I totally hung up. People are weird.
You should just like, make an appointment for them anyway. Then they'll be happy and stop calling, and you'll get your revenge when they go to the actual clinic and find out they don't actually have an appointment.
When I moved into my first flat in London, we'd get this woman calling us early in the morning asking "Is Neo there?" We did get a bit freaked out when the phonebox over the road started ringing (although it could all have been an elaborate joke arranged by our frankly mentally unhinged landlord)...
Friend of mine had a phone number one digit different from a nearby restaurant. It took her a while to figure out why people kept calling for "Indian Fantasy".
Oh my God, I used to get these scary calls from collection agencies (and my credit and financial situations are, as we know, None Too Good as it is) and we practically weeping with fear when I called back, only to find out they were looking for someone who used to live here whose name sounds kind of like mine. I should have been pissed off but I was so relieved I laughed.
OMG one time a while back I was sitting up at like 3 in the mroning waiting for my boyfriend to call after he got off the late shift, and the phone rings, so I figure it's him and I pick up...
Me: Hello Dude: Is Nicole there? Me: This is her Dude: What's up Me: *totally not recognizing the voice, but thinking for some reason I should, seeing as this person thinks they know me* Not much..er....um...who is this. Dude: *sounding more than a little drunk* What are you talking about, you know who this is. Me: Um...no...I dont think I do. Dude: This is Dave. Me: Um dude you got the wrong number Dude: oops...sorry about that...bye Me: Bye
Three minutes later the phone rings again. And I pick it up thinking it's my boyfriend.
Me: Hey sweety, bout time you called Dude: Er...is Nicole there? Me: WTF Wait a minute, you just called here like three fucking minutes ago, wrong number numb nuts! Dude: oh..yeah... Me: *click*
it pissed me off...dude was so obviously drunk. Have you ever notice that when people get shitfaced they always got someone they want to call on the phone all of a sudden, no matter what time of day or night... oh well...
My sister answers the phone with "Domino's Pizza, can I fuck up your order?" she's great...
I have gotten the idiot phone call on occasion. Sometimes I pretend to be Chinese and scream at the jerk in pretend-Chinese. Or I'll say "VD Clinic" - and yes, your results are positive. Or, I'll just hang up and unplug the phone. It all depends on how snarky I am feeling and how rude they were. But I'm never rude to nice people.
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Date: 2004-10-21 08:51 am (UTC)Instead I moved out.
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Date: 2004-10-21 09:04 am (UTC)They do that to me all the time and you cant quite scream at them over it.
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Date: 2004-10-21 09:05 am (UTC)My fav was the gal who found our number in the phone book under "medical" - and then got all pissed off cause we DEFEND the doctors and we wouldn't take her case! Love it when they ask "can you help me??"
ya sure, here -
*click*
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Date: 2004-10-21 09:06 am (UTC)AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. XDDDDD
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Date: 2004-10-21 09:55 am (UTC)I really hate when someone calls and you tell them they have the wrong number and then they call back more than once...people can be quite stupid!
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Date: 2004-10-21 12:58 pm (UTC)man, that icon.. just.. gigglefit. :)
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Date: 2004-10-21 02:58 pm (UTC)*runs*
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Date: 2004-10-21 03:54 pm (UTC)Oh, and nice use of caps lock :D
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Date: 2004-10-21 05:29 pm (UTC)Dude, that's just wrong.
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:08 pm (UTC)NO ONE: *laughs*
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Date: 2004-10-21 09:47 pm (UTC)Oh man, that is so the perfect icon for this entry. XDDD
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Date: 2004-10-22 12:30 am (UTC)Me: Hello
Dude: Is Nicole there?
Me: This is her
Dude: What's up
Me: *totally not recognizing the voice, but thinking for some reason I should, seeing as this person thinks they know me* Not much..er....um...who is this.
Dude: *sounding more than a little drunk* What are you talking about, you know who this is.
Me: Um...no...I dont think I do.
Dude: This is Dave.
Me: Um dude you got the wrong number
Dude: oops...sorry about that...bye
Me: Bye
Three minutes later the phone rings again. And I pick it up thinking it's my boyfriend.
Me: Hey sweety, bout time you called
Dude: Er...is Nicole there?
Me: WTF Wait a minute, you just called here like three fucking minutes ago, wrong number numb nuts!
Dude: oh..yeah...
Me: *click*
it pissed me off...dude was so obviously drunk. Have you ever notice that when people get shitfaced they always got someone they want to call on the phone all of a sudden, no matter what time of day or night... oh well...
My sister answers the phone with "Domino's Pizza, can I fuck up your order?" she's great...
~Nicoli~
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Date: 2004-10-22 12:35 am (UTC)namaste SF Nancy
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