What screwy telephone calls do you get?

Same happens at my house. Our number is similar to a large frozen food manufacturer, so at one stage we started to pretend it was the right number. The lack of deliveries/job application forms etc seemed to make people dial more carefully in the future

Originally posted by SheroN
Always get numbers for the chipper up the road..numbers are only one digit out....we've started taking orders and all now....
"batter burger and chips please..."
"no bother boy, give us a few minutes"....

The exact same thing used to happen to us!

any ideas how long it is before a previously used number is thrown back into circulation?

Originally posted by gobby
they dont say like, 'oh sorry, wrong number', they just hang up. bloody annoying.

have you tried re-enacting the scene from fawlty towers 'the germans' episode? probably wouldn't help, but it would be funny.

not quite the same, but i get calls every couple of weeks from eircom asking me if i'm happy with my internet service. fvckers rang today, and i ended up swearing at the silly cow over not being taken off their cold calling list even though i've asked about 6 times.

i ended up taking her name (Janine btw, if she calls you tell her to piss off) and telling her i used to work for them and if she didn't call i was going to get hold of her manager and give them an earful. it's surprising how much you can get from people when they think they might get in trouble.

My house only has 1 digit difference with a local police station!

- "I've just been robbed"
- "Good for you. Try calling the cops next time."

UGH!

I applied for a job through a recruitment/temping company last year. I apparently have the same name as one of their temps so I get the occasional call asking me what the situation is with my work, what my rate is, letting me know there's a staff party, etc.. Normally this wouldn't bother me that much at all but y'see recruitment agency people are a special kind of people... they come from the same level of Hell as marketting people and market researcers.

Everytime they call, as soon as I answer they rattle off their little speach they prepared earlier.

Them - "Hi John [like I'm some kind of old friend] this is blah at blah blah blah, blah temp blah blah recruitment blah blah blah.... "

Me - "You hav..."

Them - "Blah blah blah blah..."

Me - "You have the wrong number!"

Them - "Blah bah... huh? This is John XXXXX isn't it?

Me - "Yes but I think you have two John XXXXX on your system and I'm not the one you're looking for."

What follows can sometimes be a question and answer session while I try to explain to them that two different people can have the same name and not know each other or have anything else to do with each other.

It's their little rehearsed speaches that annoy me most. As soon as I answer they just fly into them regardless of the person on the other end of the line. I can imagine them breathing deaply and chanting their lines just before they dial my number and then spewing out their lines as soon as the phone is answered.

The latest one really took the biscuit. The recruitment agent was so bothered by the fact that her little speach might actually be interupted and she would have to interact with another person and think on her feet that she called my voicemail directly and left her little speach on there. This cost me money to access.

In my last house, we had a recycled number from the tax revenue. That was fun!!!

Originally posted by Magic Monkey
Boiler Room

Thats the one.. cheers

From a ten (or so) year old: "Daddy!"
Me: "Not me."

Used to work for a firm where one partner shared a name with a solicitor.

We got an extra number in that office that was the same as a taxi rank with the last few numbers transposed. Some guy (American accent) phones looking for a taxi form the American Embassy to the Airport. I tell him that we were surveyors not taxi drivers and tell him to get the Aircoach from across the road, cheaper, as quick, more practical. A few months later the same guy phones back looking for a taxi. I say "from the American Embassy" and he says "why yes, well actually it's just around the corner, but how did you know?". I reply "remember we're the surveyors, no the taxi drivers, go across the road and get the bus".

Originally posted by Sposs
Once got a black guy (with very bad english) screaming down the phone at me about his rights because he thought i was the eastern health board

He sounded black, right?

In eircom I got a couple of people ringing me on the wrong line (ie the expensive one), going mad because they couldn't get through on the subscription no ("I pay for this service", etc etc), all they heard was strange noises before it hung up. It usually turns out they were ringing the dial-up internet number :rolleyes:

In the old place I used to work in, weird calls were par for the course. Most Irish people have no idea how a paging system works or how call divert works. So trying to explain that no, I'm not the solicitor responsible for getting your scumbag son slung in jail, or that I'm not John Magnier, millionaire horsey-type person, was a regular feature.

Colleague had a 30 minute call of an old man reading parables and verses from the bible, when he though he was speaking to Cardinal O'Connell.

Originally posted by Victor
From a ten (or so) year old: "Daddy!"
Me: "Not me."

LMAO Good one.




...but how can you be so sure :eek: