We changed our number about 3 years ago.
A few weeks after doing so we were bombarded with calls for a greek restaurant.
After the second week we actually asked the guy to where he was trying to call and he told us it was in Leeds (my old home town), where the code is 01132. I live in Derby where the code is 01332. He even tried to help us by calling BT!
It went of for a few more weeks, finally we got sick of them calling us late at night, (I got so frustrated with it, that sometimes, especially if there'd had been a lot of calls that day, I would either shout at them, just hang up or swear at them for getting the wrong flipping code), we spoke to the manager of the restaurant, who assured us they were going to do something about it, which they didn't. We even got BT to run tests to make sure there wasn't a fault anywhere along the way.
Anyways, the calls started to dwindle off, so I guess that many customers mentioned it at the restaurant, saying they were being told to F off when they called LOL
Now the restaurant has a new number! Finally.
Though we still get the odd call for them once in a blue moon, but that is better than 20x a day up top midnight!
The amount of times I wanted to say 'Yes, we can fit in a party of 30 for Christmas', was very tempting!
On another occasion, a few years ago, I once answered the phone, and what sounded to me as an elderly Indian lady, said something, then just started laughing down the phone. I hung up, she rings back and does the same..... repeat cycle x10000000
It was a bit disturbing actually, though it was sorted out very quickly by BT thankfully.
Our phone number is similar to that of a local property development group and we often get phonecalls from people looking for the firm. We had to get the number blocked in the end, it was driving us mad! We get loads of wrong number calls all the time and my dad even gets them on his mobile!
I get loads of wrong numbers, but I've got an answering machine and I just ignore any calls from people I don't know if I'm in when they call. What amazes me is that people give out all sorts of personal details to my answer machine even though presumably they were not expecting an answer machine.
Last week a woman rang our house one morning and asked to speak to Liz, now no one of that name lives here so I told her she had the wrong number and hung up. A few moments later she rang back again, 'Oh hello can I speak to Liz please'. So I pointed out once again she had the wrong number and had just phoned up a few moments before.
She wouldn't have it though and asked me if she was through to the social security offices or something like that. I said she'd rung my house, not the social security offices.
She sounded bemused and read out the number she'd intended to ring and its similar to ours but with one didgit different. I pointed this out to her, she apoligised and hung up. Then a few moments later she rang back again, this time I didn't answer because I regoginsed the number on the screen. I think I'd have shouted at her if I'd answered it.
This morning im sat in the living room and guess what she rings again. 'Hello can I speak to Liz at Social Security'. Me throuhg gritted teeth, 'sorry you've got the wrong number, and you rang here last asking the same thing week having miss dialied.'. She was flustered and hung up on me, before ringing back yet again:mad: This time I ignored it.
She's really pissing me off now. Why the hell can't she dial more carefully?! Has this ever happened to anyone else?
I would have some fun with her. You have tried correcting her, so I would pretend to be Liz and talk gibberish or say she is living in Australia now:D
We get calls for people to landscape their gardens
Loved that Dashan clip. Have to find some more like that.
Some years ago, I joined a new company and I had to contact our agents in Germany.
Being new and nervous (only my second day I think) I made sure I had the right country code, number, who I wanted to speak with and what I needed to discuss.
Conversation, in English after the first Hello, went like this:
Female receptionist: Hello
Me: Hello, can I speak to Dr Alfred Schmidt please?
Long pause....
Me: Hello
Her: Hello....err...Dr Schmidt?
Me: Yes please
Pause
Me: Is he available?
Pause
Her: I'm sorry Dr Schmidt died.
Me: (silent eeeeeeeeeeek)
I am so sorry.
Was it sudden?
Her: He was the founder of our company
Me: (eeeeeeeeeek...is she going to cry? What the hell do I do now?)
Her: I don't know how he died. It was in 1923.
Phew. I gave her my details and she put me through to the right person.
Last week a woman rang our house one morning and asked to speak to Liz, now no one of that name lives here so I told her she had the wrong number and hung up. A few moments later she rang back again, 'Oh hello can I speak to Liz please'. So I pointed out once again she had the wrong number and had just phoned up a few moments before.
She wouldn't have it though and asked me if she was through to the social security offices or something like that. I said she'd rung my house, not the social security offices.
She sounded bemused and read out the number she'd intended to ring and its similar to ours but with one didgit different. I pointed this out to her, she apoligised and hung up. Then a few moments later she rang back again, this time I didn't answer because I regoginsed the number on the screen. I think I'd have shouted at her if I'd answered it.
This morning im sat in the living room and guess what she rings again. 'Hello can I speak to Liz at Social Security'. Me throuhg gritted teeth, 'sorry you've got the wrong number, and you rang here last asking the same thing week having miss dialied.'. She was flustered and hung up on me, before ringing back yet again:mad: This time I ignored it.
She's really pissing me off now. Why the hell can't she dial more carefully?! Has this ever happened to anyone else?
Oh yes, I get all manner of weirdos ringing me. Not sure why my number attracts them so much. Some people never get any odd calls at all.
As far as your call is concerned, she's obviously either thick, not quite the ticket, or taking the wotsit. Just ignore.
Just say you are going to get Liz and leave her hanging on the phone.
once her bills start coming in she will bne more careful.
Maybe get some easy listening music ready
Oh I hate that, I had a woman call me and was convinced I was her daughter, she just kept saying 'it's me, Mum!'
I said 'I am sure that you somebodys mother, it's just your not my mother!'
She believed me in the end but still gave me a telling off because my t.v was too loud in the background!
I hate it when someone gets the wrong number and ends up calling me and when I answer, they ask 'who's that?'
You rang me! Who the hell are you?!
Oh I hate that, I had a woman call me and was convinced I was her daughter, she just kept saying 'it's me, Mum!'
I said 'I am sure that you somebodys mother, it's just your not my mother!'
She believed me in the end but still gave me a telling off because my t.v was too loud in the background!
I hate it when someone gets the wrong number and ends up calling me and when I answer, they ask 'who's that?'
You rang me! Who the hell are you?!
It's worse when they say "Who's this?" What? If you don't know, I sure has hell don't know!
Last week a woman rang our house one morning and asked to speak to Liz, now no one of that name lives here so I told her she had the wrong number and hung up. A few moments later she rang back again, 'Oh hello can I speak to Liz please'. So I pointed out once again she had the wrong number and had just phoned up a few moments before.
She wouldn't have it though and asked me if she was through to the social security offices or something like that. I said she'd rung my house, not the social security offices.
She sounded bemused and read out the number she'd intended to ring and its similar to ours but with one didgit different. I pointed this out to her, she apoligised and hung up. Then a few moments later she rang back again, this time I didn't answer because I regoginsed the number on the screen. I think I'd have shouted at her if I'd answered it.
This morning im sat in the living room and guess what she rings again. 'Hello can I speak to Liz at Social Security'. Me throuhg gritted teeth, 'sorry you've got the wrong number, and you rang here last asking the same thing week having miss dialied.'. She was flustered and hung up on me, before ringing back yet again:mad: This time I ignored it.
She's really pissing me off now. Why the hell can't she dial more carefully?! Has this ever happened to anyone else?
Years ago I knew someone whose number was very similar to the local pizza delivery place. He got so fed up with all the mis-dialled calls that he would sometimes just take their order
Ours was the same as a pizza place that closed a while ago, and it was always Friday and Saturday nights we got lots of calls. One evening, there was a call, and my father answered it, with "Hello?....Well, the kids have already eaten, but I'm sure we can manage to eat some of that..." Turns out it was his sister that had misdialled.
Back in the days of the pulse-dial (remember those?) 'phones, my parents would sometimes answer to someone wanting to speak to the electricity board.
They had dialled the correct number, but a relay at the exchange was sticking and the code for Leicester (0533) being dialled registered as 0553 (King's Lynn) - the rest of the number was the same as ours.
You could if it caused damage to the person's ear, which is quite possible.
This is a myth. Most police forces will advise that "Don’t try to blow a whistle down the phone - it doesn’t work and you’ll only give
the caller the satisfaction of knowing that they’ve got a reaction." Rather than say your nicked.
To sell phone equipment capable of damaging an ear drum would be negligence on the part of the phone manufacturers
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I remember doing it years ago pranking my friends.
My favourite was a Jack Nicholson one from "A few Good Men" where he says:
"You're effing right I ordered a code red"
A few weeks after doing so we were bombarded with calls for a greek restaurant.
After the second week we actually asked the guy to where he was trying to call and he told us it was in Leeds (my old home town), where the code is 01132. I live in Derby where the code is 01332. He even tried to help us by calling BT!
It went of for a few more weeks, finally we got sick of them calling us late at night, (I got so frustrated with it, that sometimes, especially if there'd had been a lot of calls that day, I would either shout at them, just hang up or swear at them for getting the wrong flipping code), we spoke to the manager of the restaurant, who assured us they were going to do something about it, which they didn't. We even got BT to run tests to make sure there wasn't a fault anywhere along the way.
Anyways, the calls started to dwindle off, so I guess that many customers mentioned it at the restaurant, saying they were being told to F off when they called LOL
Now the restaurant has a new number! Finally.
Though we still get the odd call for them once in a blue moon, but that is better than 20x a day up top midnight!
The amount of times I wanted to say 'Yes, we can fit in a party of 30 for Christmas', was very tempting!
On another occasion, a few years ago, I once answered the phone, and what sounded to me as an elderly Indian lady, said something, then just started laughing down the phone. I hung up, she rings back and does the same..... repeat cycle x10000000
It was a bit disturbing actually, though it was sorted out very quickly by BT thankfully.
I'll join in on that. Get the phone number up.
I AM Liz
PS Why are you answering my phone in the first place?
Liz has retired
Liz is on maternity leave
Liz hates you
Liz left ages ago
etc......
I would have some fun with her. You have tried correcting her, so I would pretend to be Liz and talk gibberish or say she is living in Australia now:D
We get calls for people to landscape their gardens
Some years ago, I joined a new company and I had to contact our agents in Germany.
Being new and nervous (only my second day I think) I made sure I had the right country code, number, who I wanted to speak with and what I needed to discuss.
Conversation, in English after the first Hello, went like this:
Female receptionist: Hello
Me: Hello, can I speak to Dr Alfred Schmidt please?
Long pause....
Me: Hello
Her: Hello....err...Dr Schmidt?
Me: Yes please
Pause
Me: Is he available?
Pause
Her: I'm sorry Dr Schmidt died.
Me: (silent eeeeeeeeeeek)
I am so sorry.
Was it sudden?
Her: He was the founder of our company
Me: (eeeeeeeeeek...is she going to cry? What the hell do I do now?)
Her: I don't know how he died. It was in 1923.
Phew. I gave her my details and she put me through to the right person.
Oh yes, I get all manner of weirdos ringing me. Not sure why my number attracts them so much. Some people never get any odd calls at all.
As far as your call is concerned, she's obviously either thick, not quite the ticket, or taking the wotsit. Just ignore.
once her bills start coming in she will bne more careful.
Maybe get some easy listening music ready
I said 'I am sure that you somebodys mother, it's just your not my mother!'
She believed me in the end but still gave me a telling off because my t.v was too loud in the background!
I hate it when someone gets the wrong number and ends up calling me and when I answer, they ask 'who's that?'
You rang me! Who the hell are you?!
:D:D
Seriously though i've got something pretty similar happening with my phone as well & it's really winding me up also.
Blow a whistle down the phone.
You can be done for assault for doing that can you not?
You could if it caused damage to the person's ear, which is quite possible.
Ours was the same as a pizza place that closed a while ago, and it was always Friday and Saturday nights we got lots of calls. One evening, there was a call, and my father answered it, with "Hello?....Well, the kids have already eaten, but I'm sure we can manage to eat some of that..." Turns out it was his sister that had misdialled.
They had dialled the correct number, but a relay at the exchange was sticking and the code for Leicester (0533) being dialled registered as 0553 (King's Lynn) - the rest of the number was the same as ours.
My mum actually did that once when she kept getting nuisance calls. It never happened again:D
This is a myth. Most police forces will advise that "Don’t try to blow a whistle down the phone - it doesn’t work and you’ll only give
the caller the satisfaction of knowing that they’ve got a reaction." Rather than say your nicked.
To sell phone equipment capable of damaging an ear drum would be negligence on the part of the phone manufacturers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsrfovOPcjk