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labels_are4tins

Please hang up and try again.

Apr 22, 2009 13:40

Why is it when people call you and you politely tell them they have the wrong number they have to ask 'are you sure ( Read more... )

funny story, rant

Comments 5

rawnee April 22 2009, 13:42:56 UTC

Don't get me started. My husband is disabled and though we have a wireless handset, we leave it in the cradle to charge up every night. Without fail they ring in the morning after I've left for work and if he doesn't recognise the number now he hurls abuse at them and tells them not to ring again ( ... )

labels_are4tins April 22 2009, 19:49:00 UTC

:O @ the escort story. Kenzie's taken to answering the phone and even he's getting used to saying that we are not a taxi company.

What I don't get is why they question you when you say it's the wrong number. Like you'll turn round and say 'oh you got me!'

blonde_in_black April 22 2009, 15:43:56 UTC

IMO the Pratt thing was a prank call... LOL that takes me back to the days before the 1471 when we used to make them all the time >_< (yes, I'm MUCH older than you lol)

labels_are4tins April 22 2009, 19:52:02 UTC

Haha, there was 141 for in my days.

I don't think it was a prank though. We've been getting calls for Pratts (lol) since we got this number. I think the family who had it before us must've gone missing owing money or something. Usually they are polite back to me when I say they have the wrong number, maybe this guy was having a bad day.

arkblast May 6 2009, 12:22:41 UTC

I hear you on the taxi thing! My old number was one number off a taxi company, I used to have to drag myself out of bed at 2am to listen to someone try and drunkenly order the taxi. At least they weren't drunk enough to understand when I told them they'd dialled the wrong number, and I gave them the right one :D