Me: Hello
Angry Man: Who are you?
Me: Um, I believe I am supposed to ask you that question.
Angry Man: Oh, this is Kevin. Who are you?
Me: Are you looking for someone?
Angry Man: Yah, where's Bill.
Me: You have the wrong number.
Embarrassed Man: Oh! I am so sorry!
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Brrrrrrring
Me: Hello?
Person: Is this [name]'s Automotive?
Me: No, but their number is one number different from ours. Try ###-####.
Person: Wow, lots of people must make this mistake.
Me: Yep!
..........
Brrrrrrring
Me: Hello?
Old Lady: Is this the [random name]'s home?
Me: No, you must have the wrong number.
Old Lady: Okay, thank you.
1 minute later-Brrrrrrring
Me: Hello?
Old Lady: (frustrated) Oh, it's you again. Now, tell me, what numbers I am getting wrong? I have the last numbers as ####.
Me: Yes, those are the last four digits of my telephone number.
Old Lady: I must be mixing up the prefix, then. What prefix am I dialing?
Me: ###. Do you want me to look up a phone number for you?
Old Lady: (angrily) No, no. I don't need that. What prefix is [other city]?
Me: Well, there are a lot, but try this one. ###.
Old Lady: Thank you.
20 seconds later-Brrrrrrring
Me: Hello?
Old Lady: (shaky voice) Can you please help me?
Me: Is everything okay? Are you okay?
Old Lady: (crying) I need to call my sister, and I don't know the right phone number.
Me: Let me look up the phone number for you...
...........
My Mission: To help random people, one wrong number at a time.
5 comments:
It's good to have a mission...
You are a much better person than I am.
And my biggest phone pet peeve is when someone calls me and asks who it is. You called me, you idiot!!
Well... we should all have a mission in life. ;)
Wow! You get the oddest wrong number calls! Though once I had a thief use my phone number to write bad checks all over the country. I kept getting calls from collection agencies looking for him. Funny thing was, all I had to do was tell them I wasn't him, and they always believed me! That knowledge helped me later on in life when bill collectors started coming after me. But I always wanted to say, "Sorry, I don't know anyone named Stu... or do I?"
Old Man: Hello?
Su: Hi, I Su
Old Man: Hi Su
Su: You come get me airport. I all arone.
Old Man: Okay.....
Su: You hear I say, you no understand?
Old Man: Where should I meat you?
Su: Click
Old Man: Very confused!
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