People answering their phone and saying their number

Antomus Prime

This bugs the crap out of me!!!! It's bad enough that I have to spend my day ringing people and annoying them, but I could never firgure out why someone answers the phone with "Hello 011234567"... I know its 011234567, cause I just dialled 011234567. One time I responded with "Hi 011234567, this is 017654321"..... they didnt like it and called me a smart arse and hung up!!! But all I did was respond to them in the same manor that they answered the phone.

So I ask you AH, what do you guys make of this? Do you do it? And what other phone habits do people have the p**s you off???

Lumbo

22222 1890 22222

IngazZagni

Antomus Prime wrote: »

This bugs the crap out of me!!!! It's bad enough that I have to spend my day ringing people and annoying them, but I could never firgure out why someone answers the phone with "Hello 011234567"... I know its 011234567, cause I just dialled 011234567. One time I responded with "Hi 011234567, this is 017654321"..... they didnt like it and called me a smart arse and hung up!!! But all I did was respond to them in the same manor that they answered the phone.

So I ask you AH, what do you guys make of this? Do you do it? And what other phone habits do people have the p**s you off???

You are calling someone that doesn't want to hear from you and giving them cheek. Telemarketers are bad enough let alone guys like you wasting peoples time.

Reamer Fanny

Never heard of that but what bugs me is someone saying their name only in their voicemail

Antomus Prime

Antomus Prime wrote: »

But all I did was respond to them in the same manor that they answered the phone.

If you were in the same house why did you bother ringing

So I ask you AH, what do you guys make of this? Do you do it? And what other phone habits do people have the p**s you off???

Maybe they just get a lot of wrong number calls and got sick of the "is this not 12345" "no this is 12355" "oh right wrong number sorry" conversations

Oranage2

Hate it so f*cking annoying like "hello 11850"

Mars Bar

Lumbo wrote: »

22222 1890 22222

Six 2's godamnit! 1890 222222!

Balfie

I have never hear this in my life. You must ring some strange people.

Either that or the sex phone lines are just tellin ya the number an the price it is to call per min.

charlemont

052 22222

Antomus Prime

IngazZagni wrote: »

You are calling someone that doesn't want to hear from you and giving them cheek. Telemarketers are bad enough let alone guys like you wasting peoples time.

Trust me I wouldnt be doing this job if I had any success getting another one! And I'm always looking, just dont get why people introduce themselves as their phone number! It's stupid imo

Jaxxy

My grandparents (on my father's side) used to do this, I could never understand it myself. Always assumed they did it because they were pretentious idiots.

What if you thought you rang 011234567 and the response from the other end of the line is 011234576. You'd feel like a right tit then wouldn't ya!

jester77

Do you ever notice on American TV that they always seem to hang up mid conversation, rarely ever conclude a conversation by agreeing something or a simple goodbye or catch you later.

That would piss me off big time!

Antomus Prime

bluewolf wrote: »

If you were in the same house why did you bother ringing

Same house?

Balfie wrote: »

I have never hear this in my life. You must ring some strange people.

Either that or the sex phone lines are just tellin ya the number an the price it is to call per min.

*cover blown..........................

Antomus Prime

Antomus Prime wrote: »

Same house?

A manor is a house
A manner is what you were looking for

don't mind my pedantry :pac:

jester77 wrote:

Do you ever notice on American TV that they always seem to hang up mid conversation, rarely ever conclude a conversation by agreeing something or a simple goodbye or catch you later.

That would piss me off big time!

"hi X, I need this information quick"
"okay it's ..."
*hangs up*
I'd be sitting there going "you're welcome you rude fcuker"

Jaxxy

jester77 wrote: »

Do you ever notice on American TV that they always seem to hang up mid conversation, rarely ever conclude a conversation by agreeing something or a simple goodbye or catch you later.

That would piss me off big time!

Yes! And if they make plans to meet they never set a time! Wtf is that all about? People in American tv walking around knowing they have plans later, but not clear on exactly when later.

du Maurier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntv3QYzvM5I

The appropriate reference is towards the end of the video. He has picked up on it nicely, but he irks me in general.

Antomus Prime

bluewolf wrote: »

A manor is a house
A manner is what you were looking for

don't mind my pedantry :pac:

Looks for speeling for dummies on ebay!! lol

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

Yes! And if they make plans to meet they never set a time! Wtf is that all about? People in American tv walking around knowing they have plans later, but not clear on exactly when later.

I notice that too!! But we could prob start a whole forum let alone a thread on stupid things americans do.... lol

eirn

I think it's just kind of an old fashioned thing, only saying hello when answering the phone was once thought of as being rude and ill mannered, no idea why though!

Wertz

This practice stems back to before the days of speed dial or one touch calling...you didn't turn around and say the family name, you said the number, so whoever it is who was calling could be sure that they'd called the right number.
It's an anachronism now but there are many people who it's a habit for...my late mother used to do this all the time, it wasn't till she got a mobile that it stopped, and even still sometimes she'd lift the housephone and it'd just come out automatically.

Antomus Prime

eirn wrote: »

I think it's just kind of an old fashioned thing, only saying hello when answering the phone was once thought of as being rude and ill mannered, no idea why though!

Me either, saying something like "The Smiths Phone" or something like that would be grand, but the phone number just bugs the s**t out of me

IngazZagni

Well it's interesting that actually. My parents used to answer the phone with the number of their house. They did it because their number was one number off that of a big hotel close by. They constantly got calls of people trying to make a reservation. They would then say "oh is this not 222..". So they decided to answer with the number so people would know straight away that this probably isn't a hotel and they have the wrong number. Luckily the hotel changed its number and they don't get calls anymore so have stopped doing that.

Antomus Prime

Wertz wrote: »

This practice stems back to before the days of speed dial or one touch calling...you didn't turn around and say the family name, you said the number, so whoever it is who was calling could be sure that they'd called the right number.
It's an anachronism now but there are many people who it's a habit for...my late mother used to do this all the time, it wasn't till she got a mobile that it stopped, and even still sometimes she'd lift the housephone and it'd just come out automatically.

I do notice it a lot more in the elderly people alright, but there is quite a lot of young people that do it too.

Rocky_Dennis

jester77 wrote: »

Do you ever notice on American TV that they always seem to hang up mid conversation, rarely ever conclude a conversation by agreeing something or a simple goodbye or catch you later.

That would piss me off big time!

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

Yes! And if they make plans to meet they never set a time! Wtf is that all about? People in American tv walking around knowing they have plans later, but not clear on exactly when later.

It's TV people, I'm sure it doesn't happen in real life situations
Anyway not really a phone habit as such but it drives me demented when I am chatting to someone who has bad reception on their phone, I just end up cutting them off.

Ruu_Old

Are you still living in the 80s? :eek:

Antomus Prime

Ruu wrote: »

Are you still living in the 80s? :eek:

I wish, then there'd be good music on!!

Wertz

I don't think I've ever heard anyone under 30 do it...and certainly not on a mobile.

Ever noticed how few wrong numbers you get these days? Primarily because of one touch dialing systems... the only wrong numbers I do get are usually elderly women.

As for yanks hanging up mid sentence...mostly to do with the ease of calling someone back and just how comfortable they are on the phone...it wasn't until the last 5 yrs or so that we got similar packages to US phone customers where you had free landline calls rather than paying for each one and for the time used...that's been common practice in the 'States since the early 80's.

Antomus Prime

Wertz wrote: »

I don't think I've ever heard anyone under 30 do it...and certainly not on a mobile.

Ever noticed how few wrong numbers you get these days? Primarily because of one touch dialing systems... the only wrong numbers I do get are usually elderly women.

I hear it often enough, but that's because I'm dialing about 400 numbers a day!

JustAddWater

I can honestly say this has never happened to me nor have I even even heard of a phone being answered with a number

Big Nasty

I usually just say 'the Huxtable residence':pac:

weiland79

jester77 wrote: »

Do you ever notice on American TV that they always seem to hang up mid conversation, rarely ever conclude a conversation by agreeing something or a simple goodbye or catch you later.

That would piss me off big time!

I have a friend that does this, very very annoying. So after years of giving him stick about thinking he lives in Hollywood land, i now just preempt him and hang up when he is in mid sentence.

Snakeblood

Antomus Prime wrote: »

This bugs the crap out of me!!!! It's bad enough that I have to spend my day ringing people and annoying them, but I could never firgure out why someone answers the phone with "Hello 011234567"... I know its 011234567, cause I just dialled 011234567. One time I responded with "Hi 011234567, this is 017654321"..... they didnt like it and called me a smart arse and hung up!!! But all I did was respond to them in the same manor that they answered the phone.

So I ask you AH, what do you guys make of this? Do you do it? And what other phone habits do people have the p**s you off???

My parents used to have a number that was one digit removed from a taxi company, 298XXXX1 vs 298XXXXX, so they would frequently get calls from people looking for taxis. Consequently it makes perfect sense for them to say the phone number as given their personal experience, people are ****wits about entering numbers. You may not be, and blessings on you if you are not, but not everyone is.

ALSO. When people ask if someone is there, and you go 'No, I'm afraid you have the wrong number', and they say 'Are you sure?' GO **** YOURSELF YOU **** ****ING ****.

staker

Remember these OP?

Back then it was custom to greet with your number cos it was so much easier to mis-dial a number.I imagine it's just a custom carried on.

Irish Guitarist

It's possible for your phone call to reach a different number than you dialled.

Years ago I got about twenty phone calls in the space of an hour. The telephone lines in the town had some kind of fault and I was getting someone elses calls. Each phone call was a different person and they each spent ages trying to convince me that they didn't have the wrong number. I also got a call from emergency services that day asking if I had dialled 999.

As for you replying to these people by telling them your number, I think you're doing them a favour by annoying them straight away. You were going to annoy them eventually so at least you cut to the chase and they could hang up before you went into a load of telemarketing spiel.

Antomus Prime

staker wrote: »

Remember these OP?

I do indeed, old school!

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

It's possible for your phone call to reach a different number than you dialled.

Years ago I got about twenty phone calls in the space of an hour. The telephone lines in the town had some kind of fault and I was getting someone elses calls. Each phone call was a different person and they each spent ages trying to convince me that they didn't have the wrong number. I also got a call from emergency services that day asking if I had dialled 999.

As for you replying to these people by telling them your number, I think you're doing them a favour by annoying them straight away. You were going to annoy them eventually so at least you cut to the chase and they could hang up before you went into a load of telemarketing spiel.

Ive heard of that before alright, happened in my friends house in carlow a few years back

Big Nasty

staker wrote: »

Remember these OP?

Back then it was custom to greet with your number cos it was so much easier to mis-dial a number.I imagine it's just a custom carried on.

Way ahead of their time - even set up for texting! :eek::pac::cool:

maygitchell

I wish my number was like 01 22222222

So when i give out my number to dubs, all i have to say is, just hit 2 for a while until i answer

Irish Guitarist

Antomus Prime wrote: »

Ive heard of that before alright, happened in my friends house in carlow a few years back

This was in Carlow too. It was probably the same day. I bet there was a lot of pissed off Carlow residents that day.

Antomus Prime

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

This was in Carlow too. It was probably the same day. I bet there was a lot of pissed off Carlow residents that day.

Without a doubt!!!

J K

IngazZagni wrote: »

their number was one number off that of a big hotel close by. They constantly got calls of people trying to make a reservation.

I don't see why they wouldn't take reservations. And book people in. It would only take a couple of minutes. OK ultimately there will be a degree of confusion and frustration down the line, but certainly for the duration of the phone call everyone is happy. If we can all help each other out, then everyone's happy and things run more smoothly.

VenusPlays

The phone number at my parents house is one digit off from the local Bank of Ireland. We are always getting calls for them. I must start taking account numbers and mothers maiden names for security purposes.



I always thought the number thing was because you used to have to get the exchange to put you through rather than direct dial?

homer.j

HAH! That is so 1980's was it ever anything to do with this phone, by the time you dialled the number you'd forget who you were calling.

Faith+1

Victor Meldrew " Hello, 4291"

mackg

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

My grandparents (on my father's side) used to do this, I could never understand it myself. Always assumed they did it because they were pretentious idiots.

I used to do this when I was a kid! Picked it off my mother, always assumed she got from always answering her phone with her extension number in work, then again she was a pretentious idiot (not true my mother is a saint)

Sam Vimes

My mother usually answers the phone with "good evening, how may I help you?" and people constantly think they've called the wrong number because she sounds like a receptionist. Years of taking the piss out of her for it haven't had any effect unfortunately

Benny_Cake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0tiNwOpZ68

4291!