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DrunkleJon

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I finally checked my voicemail message that I got on Sunday night from a number I do not recognize. In my defense I was at work at 9 something when the call happened and I am not supposed to have it on. Well, it turns out I got a call from a jail that is over 4.5 hours from my house and do not know who it could have been that called. I am bored, have been working on drinking my strangely cidery second keg from the same batch cream ale for the past 3 hours, and am wondering... What is the most bizarre random wrong number call you have received? Or am I just the only one who has an easily mistaken number?
 
I had someone ask via text if I was coming home soon. I asked "Who is this?" They responded your mother. I assumed it was one of my ahole friends, so responded with quite rude language to the effect of suggested self fornication. Got a phone call from the number, during which it came to light that she was indeed looking for her kid, but texted the wrong number.
 
I use to get a call from a ( older sounding ) guy about once a month looking for Jerry. That's not me. Don't know if he was hitting the wrong number button or two at the same time, but it happened once a month for about 6 - 8 months in a row. Strange.
 
I once got 4 voicemails on my work phone over the weekend. They were from 2 extremely drunk women looking for someone named Bill. They wanted Bill to come over and take care of business. The messages went on and on and were pretty graphic. I'm guessing Bill missed one hell of a good time. I kept the messages for about a year. I think everyone in my company stopped by to hear them. Poor Bill.
 
The voicemail message on my phone was a play on the song "laid" by James and one night a teenager called by accident and heard it and for a month or two I got a lot of random teens calling my phone and if I answered they would ask to call back so they could hear it. It was pretty funny actually. I also had someone texting me for awhile thinking I was a friend of there's. they stopped when I kept forwarding some really weird naughty pictures my buddy sends me
 
Once when my wife and I were vacationing in Ontario, a lady called my cell phone asking for her daughter. When I replied that her daughter was not here, she got pissy and demanded to talk to her. She said, "I KNOW she's there and you need to send her home right now!" I insisted that it was just me and my wife, but she cuts in and tells me that she KNOWS her daughter is staying with me.

I told her she had the wrong number, but she insisted that this was her daughter's phone number. I told her, no, it was MY cell phone number and I was from Michigan and taking a holiday in Toronto and she was calling me at the hotel and it was just me and my wife. Finally had to hang up on her!

Then she called back like twice, and I had to turn my phone off.

Kind of felt sorry for her, since it sounded like her daughter was getting into some pretty awesome trouble with some guy.
 
After several years with a trak phone ( I think I sent and received a grand total of 3 texts) I finally broke down and got a smart phone this winter. Here is the very first text I received on the new phone

"She is 3 cm and contractions are whopping her right now. Baby k today yall"

No clue who it was from
 
b-boy said:
I once got 4 voicemails on my work phone over the weekend. They were from 2 extremely drunk women looking for someone named Bill. They wanted Bill to come over and take care of business. The messages went on and on and were pretty graphic. I'm guessing Bill missed one hell of a good time. I kept the messages for about a year. I think everyone in my company stopped by to hear them. Poor Bill.
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I wonder if they recycled your number from one written on a bathroom wall somewhere.

I think the weirdest voicemails we get are from my Wife's ex-husband, usually drunk and looning on about something or another. The last one was a long drunken rant about how much he needs a busted lamp table that we tossed out years ago. Every once in a while, my step-daughter intercepts one on the answering machine before we check messages and always busts him on them.

His usual response is, "I don't remember that. I never called and said that.":drunk:
 
Im sitting here laughing at my desk thinking about some random dude calling pawn and instead of finding "Steve" having the conversation he wants to have anyway. Awesome.

Apparently Graham Chapman once got a man's number at a bar or club and called him soon after for a date (the story goes). Other members of Monty Python were with him when his date arrived... in a wheelchair. He had called the wrong guy. But, as the story goes, he didnt let on to his new suitor, and went on the date as they had agreed.
 
CreamyGoodness said:
Im sitting here laughing at my desk thinking about some random dude calling pawn and instead of finding "Steve" having the conversation he wants to have anyway. Awesome.
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I even stored his number as a contact on my phone. Very old guy, probably lonely. I sometimes wonder if there even is a Steve.

My brain has assigned my dead grandpa's image to this voice. I guess we both get something out of it.

George The Wrong Number Guy.jpg
 
Not exactly a text or phone message, but back in the day of pagers, my friend Cal had one in college that he had got from a super shady pager company kiosk at the mall. When I would page Cal, about half the time, he would never call me back, then say he never got the page. One day I paged him, and he called me right back. About 5 minutes later my phone rings again, but its an unrecognizable voice saying "who is this that paged me?". I said, this is Cody, but I didn't page you. "Yes you did, is your # ......?" yes, but I didn't page you. I paged my friend Cal a minute ago, but not you. Then he goes "AW man, WTF, did yo friend get his pager at Star Page at the mall?". I was like yeah, I think so.

Anyway, kind of a lame story, and not very funny, but I found it incredible that this crappy pager company was able to give the same pager # to 2 people. Don't ask me how that even works.
 
I once got a text asking me if I had any green to sell him(and that's just how he put it). Of course I didn't so I sent him a message back letting him know that I didn't and that he had the wrong number and to be really careful he doesn't accidentally get a LEO next time.

He even said thanks. Still makes me laugh a little.
 
I got a voicemail from a very drunk chick about 2:30 in the morning. Apparently she was so drunk she didn't hear my greeting clearly stating in was my company phone. Anyway, she goes on for almost 5 minutes ranting and raving about what a no good so-and-so I am and how she's gonna kick my a$$ and throw my $hit out in the yard. Hysterical! I kept it for a couple of months and played it for a bunch of people.
 
I get calls at work for a Steven Fokus (or something) from some telemarketing firm. I keep telling them that he doesn't work here and to take my number off their list but they keep calling. So last week they called and they asked for him. I said "Sorry, I killed him", she's like "What I'm sorry I didn't hear you", "Oh I killed him, he died" (in a chipper voice which was nice a creepy), she asked when, I said "oh a couple weeks ago". I had to hang up because I started to crack.
 
Back when I had my previous cell phone for a short time,this hispanic woman kept calling me,rattling on in hispanic. I told her she had the wrong number. "Oh,ok,sorry". This went on for a good couple of months. The next time she called,I let her praddle on for a good couple of minutes. Then I said Ke'? (what?) And she goes through the whole thing again. I told her "wrong number" & hung up. I think she finally figured it out or got better glasses?...:drunk:
 
A few years ago when I opened a cell account with AT&T I was assigned the number of some deadbeat chick. For almost 2 years I got calls from collection agencies looking for her. I still get texts from her friends and family. Her dad and I got into a text argument a couple years back during local elections. He kept texting me telling me to vote for some dude.
 
^^^We used to get calls like that from legal beagles looking for this guy we went to catholic grade school with when we were newlyweds. I guess he was a deadbeat dad for starters. The first two letters of our sirnames is identical. But mines 5 letters & his is only 3. They made all kinds of threats against me & my family leagally speaking,because they were sure I was a bold faced liar.
I told them you come anywhere near my family,& you'll get a butt full of squirell shot! I finally had to go to the cops & tell them about it. I even had to give my license ID so they could prove to them I wasn't this guy using an alias. He'd given them our address,etc. I don't know how the world he found that out though? It's not like we were friends or anything...
 
I've had my cell number for almost 13 years now. Every few years I start getting random calls and texts for some other person. I can only assume that someone got a phone number close to mine and they either give out the wrong number or it gets transcribed in the passing of said number.

About five years ago, I was getting a bunch of random texts from people, nothing interesting there, just told them it was wrong and that was the end of it. But I also got some phone calls, apparently from prospective employers for some girl. Probably 8 or so in total. And on one of them, I even confirmed the phone number that she had listed on her resume and it was definitely my number. I kinda felt bad, but then I thought it was her own ******* fault.
 
My gf has the same last 7 digits as a QVC line, so we often get calls from random old ladies who think they don't have to dial 1-800

We get a lot of confused "hello?"-s usually followed by a hang up and 2 or 3 more calls before we get a verbal admission of wrong number.

Her phone blows up around the holidays.
 
I once woke up to a phone call at 2 in the morning from a very sweet woman crying hysterically asking me "who <insert my kid sister's name> is?" she found the name and number in her husband's wallet.

we ended up talking for many hours and few weeks later went on a date.
 
I get a fax from some anonymous fax number every month. It's a proof of payment for someones mobile service. Not enough information to try and get back to the person to let them know they have the wrong fax number.
 
neosapien said:
I once woke up to a phone call at 2 in the morning from a very sweet woman crying hysterically asking me "who <insert my kid sister's name> is?" she found the name and number in her husband's wallet.

we ended up talking for many hours and few weeks later went on a date.
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Wow!

How did the date go?
 
unionrdr said:
Back when I had my previous cell phone for a short time,this hispanic woman kept calling me,rattling on in hispanic.
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I don't know why, but this comment made me laugh. Specifically the 'rattling on in hispanic' part. :D

I get a Happy New Year text message from someone I don't know every year. I always respond back. I used to get pissed back when I was paying $.25 per text.
 
Six years ago I relocated to CA and got myself a CA phone #. I STILL get the deadbeat calls for some guy named Patrick. They come in spurts so you can always tell when a new company acquires his debt. They even leave me voicemail even though my greeting clearly states my name and some job information.

The kicker: I work for Verizon Wireless but there's nothing we can do about it other than change the number. It took just long enough for the first round to come in that I was we'll acquainted with this number. Changing phone numbers sucks.

forstmeister said:
A few years ago when I opened a cell account with AT&T I was assigned the number of some deadbeat chick. For almost 2 years I got calls from collection agencies looking for her. I still get texts from her friends and family. Her dad and I got into a text argument a couple years back during local elections. He kept texting me telling me to vote for some dude.
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b-boy said:
I don't know why, but this comment made me laugh. Specifically the 'rattling on in hispanic' part. :D

I get a Happy New Year text message from someone I don't know every year. I always respond back. I used to get pissed back when I was paying $.25 per text.
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Since the town I live in is near Lorain,where many hispanics among other denomanations live,I'm used to hearing Puertorican spanish,& some Mexican/central American. It got so frustrating over a couple months,that one day I guess I just snapped & lol'd to myself. The Ke? thing I just couldn't resist. Nowadays,it's the particular voicemail with no msg that I get every morning at 3:34am! A new one to deal with. Idk how telamarketers got my #?...
 
I had a really sad one, it was about 7 years ago when I was working at Circuit City. I missed 2 calls from the number while on the floor, but 3 calls in a row I figure something is wrong.

Call went like this:
Me: Hello?
Him: Hey this is Bob (don't remember actual name), you hit my car this morning and said you'd call me with your information? You have it yet?
Me: Uh... I have been at work all day, who are you looking for?
Bob: What? Is this John?
Me: Nope, and I don't know anyone by that name. Sorry man.
Bob: Mother****er.... (hangs up)
 
I opened a Virgin Mobile account about 2 years ago with my fiance during the same day. Our numbers were about 30 digits from each other. Yet, I'm the one that keeps getting debt calls for some women. It's funny to hear the Indian accents question why the same "guy" keeps answering the phone...

Anyways, after about a year and a half of clamoring to not be called again because I don't know any women by the name they were trying to reach, I get a call from the state police.... Uh oh...

In the year this happened, I did get my only traffic violation, but paid it the next day. In my mind, I'm wondering if something is awry. They wouldn't tell me exactly who they were looking for at first, but proclaiming they had a warrant for my arrest. When I asked the person what I could possibly have done, they recited to me that they couldn't tell me. Ugh!

Well, after a couple more calls from the state police I finally asked if it was for the woman (previously from the debt collectors). They answered yes. I then asked them how could they possibly think that a guy who answers the phone every single time (and explained the debt calls as well) could possibly be some woman they were looking for, they got really quiet. Finally they stopped calling me.

Another few months go by and the state police calls my number again. They reluctantly apologize to me. I'm now confused as to why since they didn't state it at first. They finally ended up telling me they found the woman, and were really sorry for all the aggravation it may have cause me. I do sort of give them props for that!

But, wth, I still get the debt calls. Never ending I guess...

*I am fingerprinted and on record since I used to work at a casino (that's why I might've been scared since I'm in the system)...
 
I got a call from a wrong number answered with "This is John". Woman on the line I'm guessing in her 60's or so goes all indignant with "uh yes this is Mrs. Smith".

Me: "okay"
Mrs. Smith: "Mrs. Smith"
Me: "Yeah"
Mrs. Smith: "I have reservations!"
Me: "Oh yes let me see, which day again?"
Mrs. Smith: "Thursday."
Me: "oh yes right here. How can I help you"
Mrs. Smith: "well we made reservation for dinner Thursday because we have a lot of family coming into town that weekend for the holidays"
Me: "of course"
Mrs. Smith: "well they won't all be here early enough to go to dinner Thursday so we'd like to move the reservation to Friday."
Me: "absolutely Mrs. Smith let me see what we have. How many?"
Mrs. Smith: "you have the original reservation!"
Me: "I know I just want to confirm it will still be the same"
Mrs. Smith: "10."
Me: "how does 6:00 clock on Friday work?"
Mrs. Smith: "that will be fine."
Me: "great, we look forward to seeing you all then."

Had she been nice and not insistent that I should have known her name off the bat I would have probably informed her it was the wrong number. She was not. I sometimes wonder how it went down when they missed their Thursday reservation and showed up Friday with no reservation and pissed off.
 
McBrewskie said:
I got a call from a wrong number answered with "This is John". Woman on the line I'm guessing in her 60's or so goes all indignant with "uh yes this is Mrs. Smith".

Me: "okay"
Mrs. Smith: "Mrs. Smith"
Me: "Yeah"
Mrs. Smith: "I have reservations!"
Me: "Oh yes let me see, which day again?"
Mrs. Smith: "Thursday."
Me: "oh yes right here. How can I help you"
Mrs. Smith: "well we made reservation for dinner Thursday because we have a lot of family coming into town that weekend for the holidays"
Me: "of course"
Mrs. Smith: "well they won't all be here early enough to go to dinner Thursday so we'd like to move the reservation to Friday."
Me: "absolutely Mrs. Smith let me see what we have. How many?"
Mrs. Smith: "you have the original reservation!"
Me: "I know I just want to confirm it will still be the same"
Mrs. Smith: "10."
Me: "how does 6:00 clock on Friday work?"
Mrs. Smith: "that will be fine."
Me: "great, we look forward to seeing you all then."

Had she been nice and not insistent that I should have known her name off the bat I would have probably informed her it was the wrong number. She was not. I sometimes wonder how it went down when they missed their Thursday reservation and showed up Friday with no reservation and pissed off.
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Haha I wish I could pull something like this off, well done sir.
 
I would get random texts about setting up a appointment to get hair done. After about a couple dozen exchanges that this is the wrong number, I finally just started setting appointments. Always wondered how that went, but, I never heard back from anyone. I still get one occasionally.
 
Great stories. I get international texts in spanish 2-3 times every 4-6 months. I would write back, but really do not want to pay the (i am guessing) $1 to send back to them nor do I want to confirm my number to them.
 
Trying to think of a mistaken call but can't for the life of me think of any memorable enough to care. The closest I have is a mistaken housecall.

I was sitting on my couch one evening playing playstation when the door flung open and this drunk woman wearing some kind of weddingish veil strolls in, drops her bag by the door, closes it... Then walks over and faceplants in my lap. After shaking her to some similance of coherence I got her phone number out of her finally, called her boyfriend and tried to explain my confusing predicament. Turns out she was in the apartment building one row over in the same house but surely was probably one of his weirder telephone calls I'd think.
 
passedpawn said:
There's an old guy that calls me all the time (once a week). He always asks for Steve (that's not me). But then we chat about all sorts of things. Nice guy.
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I'm pretty sure you're the most interesting person on HBT. If I make it down for some Florida brewery visits in September, I hope we have a few beers.
 
neosapien said:
I once woke up to a phone call at 2 in the morning from a very sweet woman crying hysterically asking me "who <insert my kid sister's name> is?" she found the name and number in her husband's wallet.

we ended up talking for many hours and few weeks later went on a date.
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Uh, you went on a date with the wife of a man your kid sister was screwing? Wow.
 

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