Stop giving out MY number!!
March 16th 2008 05:07
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve received 6 calls from 6 different numbers looking for the same guy. And that’s not counting the ones who said they had the wrong number when they heard my voice.
I’ve had this number for many years, and it makes me wonder… Did some coward, not wanting to say no to giving out his own number, pick a number out of the air and it turned out to be mine?
Or did someone he knows, not wanting others to find him, give whoever asked for his number a mobile phone number that happened to be mine?
Is this coincidence or is some idiot who has my number giving it out by mistake? Or on purpose?
Well, the calls were quite innocuous. The people call, I tell them they have the wrong number, we hang up.
Some apologised then hung up. Some hung up abruptly as soon as they heard me say “wrong num-“, like they’d go deaf if they heard me finish the sentence. A couple of them couldn’t believe they weren’t going to get to talk to anyone else but me. The poor sods.
I nearly let slip my name during one of those calls. This elderly sounding man kept on asking in different ways, “This isn’t so-and-so’s phone?” There was probably no harm in letting the old guy know my name, but just in case.
Some guy called my land line out of the blue once upon a time and I stupidly gave him my name without a second thought. Within a minute of talking, he initiated phone sex.
I thought it was hilarious at the time and politely declined the offer. My sarcasm had probably been too subtle for him.
Calls kept coming from different horny men calling me by name, so often that I had to change my number to a silent one.
Thinking back, if they’d picked my number out of the white pages, they would’ve had my address too. I think I’ll leave the implications of this line of thought here.
Onto another story now. Some woman called me while I was at the supermarket the other day and demanded what I wanted. She said I called her and asked her to call me back on this number, which is a load of rubbish because I obviously did not. Either her phone company sucks, or some creep’s been giving out my number over the years…
Unless I’m just a wrong-number magnet attracting perverts, telemarketers and common folk alike.
I’ve had this number for many years, and it makes me wonder… Did some coward, not wanting to say no to giving out his own number, pick a number out of the air and it turned out to be mine?
Or did someone he knows, not wanting others to find him, give whoever asked for his number a mobile phone number that happened to be mine?
Is this coincidence or is some idiot who has my number giving it out by mistake? Or on purpose?
Well, the calls were quite innocuous. The people call, I tell them they have the wrong number, we hang up.
Some apologised then hung up. Some hung up abruptly as soon as they heard me say “wrong num-“, like they’d go deaf if they heard me finish the sentence. A couple of them couldn’t believe they weren’t going to get to talk to anyone else but me. The poor sods.
I nearly let slip my name during one of those calls. This elderly sounding man kept on asking in different ways, “This isn’t so-and-so’s phone?” There was probably no harm in letting the old guy know my name, but just in case.
Some guy called my land line out of the blue once upon a time and I stupidly gave him my name without a second thought. Within a minute of talking, he initiated phone sex.
I thought it was hilarious at the time and politely declined the offer. My sarcasm had probably been too subtle for him.
Calls kept coming from different horny men calling me by name, so often that I had to change my number to a silent one.
Thinking back, if they’d picked my number out of the white pages, they would’ve had my address too. I think I’ll leave the implications of this line of thought here.
Onto another story now. Some woman called me while I was at the supermarket the other day and demanded what I wanted. She said I called her and asked her to call me back on this number, which is a load of rubbish because I obviously did not. Either her phone company sucks, or some creep’s been giving out my number over the years…
Unless I’m just a wrong-number magnet attracting perverts, telemarketers and common folk alike.
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