What screwy telephone calls do you get?

kano476 · 21-01-2004 08:22PM

my friends house fone is one digit off one of the local taxi numbers so at like 2 in the morning ppl ring up looking for taxi's and my friend always tells them that they'll be down in 5 mins. so funny when ppl ring back 20 mins later wondering where their taxi is

Walter Ego · 21-01-2004 08:31PM

Originally posted by Einstürzende
My house only has 1 digit difference with a local police station!

But on the plus side 998 or is it 1000 is a handy number to remember.

You should really consider changing it to 112:D

tinkerbell · 21-01-2004 09:06PM

Originally posted by mycroft
My name starts with an "A" and I'm first in everyones phonebook.

Which means if a phone is in someones pocket, and the keypad isn't locked I get a call.

Happens three or four times a week, It's really fun if it's three in the morning and you're listening to someone leave a nightclub.

Or the memoriable time a friend left a voicemail of her having sex......

haha, that must've been one hell of a voicemail to get!!!

I once got a phonecall on my mobile from some skanger woman "haalloo, can i get a taxi roight?" And to jus play along, I said "where you located?" "I'm fram da nurdsooiiide in Duuubliin". I was like "uhh first off, I ain't a taxi, second off, I'm about 150 miles away from Dublin". Hehe, that shut her up

nlgbbbblth · 21-01-2004 10:07PM

anytime someone dials my phone and it's a wrong no I always play along

"John?"

"Yes"

it's very funny when the penny drops

dazberry · 21-01-2004 10:14PM

[OT] Many moons ago in my teenage years

a friend of mine used to think it was cool to answer the phone with the phrase: "City morgue, you kill'em, we chill'em".

Naturally his parents weren't too happy about this, but when his father rang one day to say that their granny had died it sort of put an end to it :eek:.

In fairness, it was better than the "I listen to the red hot sounds of Sunshine 101"

D.

dazberry · 21-01-2004 10:22PM

Originally posted by nlgbbbblth
anytime someone dials my phone and it's a wrong no I always play along
"John?"
"Yes"
it's very funny when the penny drops

LOL - I got a call one day... sort of went like this:

> Darren? (phonetically it was Darden)
< Yeah
> No, Darren (Darden)
< Yeah (me/lowers pitch)
> Is that Darren (Is daht Darden)
< Yeah, who is this?
> Darren (Darden) [a second name]
< Nah, sorry you've the wrong number
> Ah sordy bud [hangs up]

That was a mind fooker

D.

Tommy Vercetti · 21-01-2004 10:23PM

A couple of years ago I started getting calls and voicemails from a woman who apparently was getting married soon, she thought she was phoning a DJ from what I could gather. She was leaving long messages and stuff (I stopped answering because I tried to explain many times that she had the wrong number) about the wedding. Anyway this went on for 3 or 4 weeks and the last one I got was something along the lines of "you never got back to me and now the reception is ruined wah wah wah" filled with various expletives.

ColinM · 21-01-2004 10:35PM

Originally posted by sceptre
He sounded black, right?

Oh give over, sceptey! Yeah, right like it was just as likely to be a regular Irish PAYE worker who just happened to have a Nigerian accent.

Victor, I really liked the taxi story.

nlgbbbblth, I took to doing this as well after repeatedly explaining to people (and the same people) that they had dialled the wrong number didn't work. I began to treat it like prank calling, except they paid for the call. I used to get loads of calls from people thinking they had called a doctor's surgery. I used to apoligise and tell them that they had the wrong number. They would argue with me and tell me that they had dialled correctly and that they dialled the number listed in the book. I would explain that they had made an elementary mistake by reading the number listed underneath the one they wanted. I even explained to some of them what an "error of parallax" was. They'd even ask me for the correct number, and to save my time and theirs in case they had something life-threatening, I actually had the correct number sellotaped to my phone.

Some people just would not accept that I was not a doctor, no matter how clearly I explained the situation to them. I decided that if these people were so thick as to demand medical advice from me, then they would get it. The more annoying they were, the more creative and potentially injurious advice I gave them.

kmart6 · 21-01-2004 11:09PM

Originally posted by Einstürzende
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!

haha

I cam imagine me doing the same

oneweb · 22-01-2004 03:47PM

Originally posted by dazberry
[OT]"City morgue, you kill'em, we chill'em".

OMG, one of the stockroom lads (sort of manager but not quite) often answered the phone like that, until - completely out of the blue - customer calls started diverting to the stockroom :eek:

ToxicPaddy · 22-01-2004 04:43PM

My parents number is one number off what used to be the local butchers number
and this old dear used to ring almost every single saturday morning to ring in
her order for her pork chops and her "nice piece of lamb for the Sunday dinner"..

When we used to explain to her that this isnt the butchers, she'd apologise and
hang up, then ring back about a minute later, after, im sure, checking the phone
number and dial it incorrectly again... lol

It was very funny and went on for years, until the butcher retired and closed his
business..

Miguel_Sanchez · 22-01-2004 04:56PM

I moved house and had to change phone number. Because I was working from home I kept the old number on the exchange and had it permenantly forward on to my mobile. Eircom assured me that the forwarding was set up and working fine.

I rang it one day to check and was very surprised to find that my mobile didn't ring but instead someone answered. When I asked them their number it turned out to be different from mine but yet dialling my number still got them.

Got on to eircom and they sorted it out.

A few weeks later a different thing happened. When some eldery woman in Galway rang anyone my number came up on their caller ID so I got lots of voice mails and calls from people wondering did Auntie Margaret have a new phone number.

Agent Smith · 22-01-2004 07:44PM

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"....

so it's you.....

grrrr

cyclopath2001 · 27-01-2004 11:07PM

I know of once where a UK bank (might have been Midland) sent letters to all their Irish customers giving a customer service number for corporate credit cards, without the UK prefix. They had their customers faxing the Irish Revenue instead.....sending in confidential details about their company credit cards!

exCrumlinBoyo · 28-01-2004 08:59PM

I'm from Dublin but Live in Florida in the US. If anyone has ever lived here they will know what its like with getting calls from telemarketers.

Well one day I got a call and they piss me of really bad. The lady calling said to me "Can I speak with Bessy? " I said wha ? She said again, "Can I please speak with bessy" ? Holding my laughter I said hang on a minute please and I will get her just now. I shouted to my wife "Samantha call bessy in will ya" and my wife said. "where is the dog ? " That's right the telemarketer was calling up to speak with me fcuking dog. I could not stop laughing when I said. Bessy our dog in on her way in, you will have to excuse they delay because she is rather old and takes her time coming in to the house to get the phone. Oh.. by the way she does not speak english so how are you going to speak with her ? I will hold the phone so you can both chat !

Well let me tell you.. I have never laughed as much in my life and I could feel the womans face burning on the other end of the phone and I could imagine she wanted the ground to swallow her up. She just hung up in the end.

What screwy telephone calls do you get?

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