Sorry, wrong number!!!!

Posted: Sun, Feb 15 2009, 2:11 pm Post subject: Sorry, wrong number!!!!

So, you ruuuun to pick up the phone, only to hear someone is looking for Mrs. X, fine, the problem is---you're Mrs. Y. So you say, SWN!! The phone rings again, the caller doesn't realize, she's got a wrong number again!!! Do you answer straight forward, SWN, or are you a little more creative in answering?
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Posted: Sun, Feb 15 2009, 3:47 pm Post subject: re: Sorry, wrong number!!!!

I usually ask then which number she's trying to dial, so she can find out if she copied the number wrong or just misdialed again.
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Posted: Sun, Feb 15 2009, 3:55 pm Post subject:

don't ask what I do when it's 4:22 am Twisted Evil

first I interrogated Banging head

then I called the police Twisted Evil

now for my next plan ...
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Posted: Sun, Feb 15 2009, 4:02 pm Post subject: re: Sorry, wrong number!!!!

we have a voip telephone with a NY #, so wrong numbers here do happen in truth at 4 AM - BH not often (and not yet time after time, or I may get to be like greenie!)!

Posted: Sun, Feb 15 2009, 4:04 pm Post subject:

by the way this really happened this morning and I am still witchy grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Twisted Evil

Posted: Sun, Feb 15 2009, 4:19 pm Post subject: re: Sorry, wrong number!!!!

actually, we have a number that aparently is just like someone else's number because we keep on and keep on getting wrong numbers for them. I even called bezek up to try and find out what their number is so that I could tell people who called for them their correct number, but they were not listed.
ive gotten calls from doctors offices as well as last week we got a call from some court office for them.
its annoying but its even more annoying when that doc office called and left a message. thank g-d they left their number and I was able to call back and tell them that the number was a wrong number.

Posted: Sun, Feb 15 2009, 5:43 pm Post subject: re: Sorry, wrong number!!!!

hehehehehe, I remember when my parents had a person calling their house every day asking for george washington. My father told him he died almost 300 years ago!

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I had a guy call and ask for Henry. Informed him it was the wrong number. He called again, I told him once more. Then he called a few more times and left messages. This was over a week or so. The next time he called, I picked up, told him that he's been calling the wrong number all this time.
I started to tell him that he left a few messages here that Henry will never hear, but I didn't get past the word "messages," when he said, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'll erase them."
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First time offense: sorry, wrong number
Second time offense: Um, you still got the same wrong number
Third time offense: Don't pick up.

Posted: Sun, Feb 15 2009, 11:40 pm Post subject:

hehe I once told someone she had the wrong number and she didn't believe me!! she was looking for her friend Anne so I was like sorry you have the wrong number so she said oh stop it anne thats not funny!! she literally KEPT CALLING BACK and texting and I could NOT convince her she had the wrong number. lol. eventually I just stopped picking up.
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Posted: Wed, Feb 18 2009, 1:31 pm Post subject: re: Sorry, wrong number!!!!

I have this happening a few times a week for a lumberyard, and several additional times each week for some guy that the recruiters are crazy to hire. Something techie related. It's gotten so bad that almost all of our messages are for these other people! Our message used to give our names and say leave a message.

Now, our answering machine message now says something like "You've reached X and Y. If you're looking for X, or Y, congratulations! You've got the right number! Please leave us a message. However, if you're looking for someone else, anyone else, you've got the WRONG NUMBER. Please don't leave a message--whoever you are looking for is NOT here, they will NOT hear it! Please look up the number again, and good luck. Have a great day."

I still occasionally get messages, but not as often. Finally. Very Happy

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Gold Member Joined: Jul 11 2008 Posts: 1897

I do not have caller ID, and I feel so bad about it today.

I got a long message on my answering machine from a very young boy to his grandma saying how much he enjoyed her visit and how much fun he had and how he cant wait till she comes back to see him and please call him back soon. I wish I had his phone number to let his mom know it didnt go through... I hope grandma calls him soon.

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Over the last couple of years I've had several phone calls asking for a particular bank!

I usually tell them I wish I could help them but....

Gold Member Joined: Oct 25 2007 Posts: 1607

Our number used to be the number for a police station... Confused

We get some interesting phone calls...

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when I was engaged I called DH and got hte wrong number but thoguht he was just playing games with me... took me like a bunch of phone calls and embarrasing conversations to re-look up his number and noticed I was off a digit Embarassed

Posted: Wed, Feb 25 2009, 8:59 am Post subject: re: Sorry, wrong number!!!!

As a kid we would sometimes get calls for a Jewish chiropracter - the first two digits were dif, last five were the same.
When DH and I moved in to our first home, WE accidentally gave everyone the wrong number, it was for a plumber! Embarassed