Voicemail from a random number

[DrunkleJon]

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?

 

[stevo4361]

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.

 

[Malted_hops]

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.

 

[b-boy]

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.

 

[passedpawn]

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.

 

[russrob81]

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

 

[Homercidal]

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.

 

[pjj2ba]

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

 

[DrunkleJon]

Did you at least send back a "Congrats on being a baby-daddy!" text?

 

[aiptasia]

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.

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."

 

[CreamyGoodness]

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.

 

[passedpawn]

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.

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.

 

[Grannyknot]

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.

 

[Spc_Scott]

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.

 

[huhwha]

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.

 

[stamandster]

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.

 

[unionrdr]

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?...

 

[forstmeister]

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.

 

[unionrdr]

^^^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...

 

[jmendez29]

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.

 

[h4mmy86]

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.

 

[neosapien]

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.

 

[JohanMk1]

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.

 

[Spc_Scott]

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.

Wow!

How did the date go?

 

[b-boy]

Back when I had my previous cell phone for a short time,this hispanic woman kept calling me,rattling on in hispanic.

I don't know why, but this comment made me laugh. Specifically the 'rattling on in hispanic' part.

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.

 

[Fordmi]

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.

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.

 

[unionrdr]

I don't know why, but this comment made me laugh. Specifically the 'rattling on in hispanic' part.

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.

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 #?...

 

[cheezydemon3]

CALL BLOCKER app works wonders.

 

[unionrdr]

I think my new phone has that. gotta re-read that manual...

 

[neosapien]

Wow!

How did the date go?

Good enough to make an amusing story, not good enough for a second.