I just received the strangest phonecall...

[Sandra6]

Hang on, the guy who received the call was the weirdo, or was this a gay thing?

Well they were both clearly strange, but the guy she ended up dating for a while was a complete weirdo. The relationship didn't last.

 

[Vidor06]

My home phone number is one digit removed from a local hospitals estates branch and we get one or two wrong numbers every week asking for lifts to be fixed and things to be cleaned.
One night a lady rang asking for estates. I told her she had the wrong number. She argued with me and I explained her error. She rang off and a minute later rang back. Again I explained her error. And again she argued with me. She rang off and two minutes later rang back again. This time my patience was wearing thin but I told her the problem again but she again argued with me and was convinced that I was lying to her. This time I just hung up and thankfully she didnt ring back.

 

[rich p]

I was in a hick hotel near Dublin and was taken aback when the reception said they charged a euro to provide an early morning alarm call at 7.30.
When the call woke me, the guy said that on this occasion there'd be no charge.
When I asked, why, he said, "cos it's 8.30"

 

[rich p]

But I turned out okay

This is the bit that makes me think you're making the story up Andrew...

 

[swee'pea99]

I was in a hick hotel near Dublin and was taken aback when the reception said they charged a euro to provide an early morning alarm call at 7.30.
When the call woke me, the guy said that on this occasion there'd be no charge.
When I asked, why, he said, "cos it's 8.30"

Superb!

 

[Cubist]

We had a number that was a digit in the area code different to one of the halls of residence at Hull university. Bizarrely I knew this because I had once stayed there for a shooting competition over the summer holidays, and had phoned home from the call box in the common room. I read the number out for Mrs Cube to call me back and we both realised it was the same number, but 01482 rather than our 01484. Anyways, months later we were in bed and the phone rang at silly o'clock in the morning. A drunken voice asked to speak to Laura in room D12 or whatever. I twigged immediately and told a sleepy Mrs Cube it was for her and handed her the phone. Apparently the young man was a "bit forward" and got a bit of a telling off. Mrs Cube hadn't twigged and thought it was one of the staff at her school playing g a joke.

 

[Profpointy]

on a similar vein there's a similar letter story.

A gang of us in a shared house had a bit of a party with a number of the revellers staying over. Next morning the post arrived, (seemingly) addressed to one of the guests. Realising at once it was a mix-up and total coincidence, i woke the guy up and handed him a letter. Utterly befuddled the chap couldn't fathom why anyone had written to him at our house, or who would even have known he'd be there on the particular day. Opening the letter he was even more baffled to see it was a complaint about not paying the tv rent for two years.

I was sniggering by this time as the prank had worked out even better than I'd hoped as I'd obviously had no idea of the contents. It also explained who owned the tv in the flat which barely worked as only 2 of the 3 colours worked and it needed a wooden spoon wedged in the back to fix a dry joint (this is an electrical term just to be clear).

If they ever sent round the repo man they'd have been welcome to it.

 

[Sandra6]

My home phone number is one digit removed from a local hospitals estates branch and we get one or two wrong numbers every week asking for lifts to be fixed and things to be cleaned.
One night a lady rang asking for estates. I told her she had the wrong number. She argued with me and I explained her error. She rang off and a minute later rang back. Again I explained her error. And again she argued with me. She rang off and two minutes later rang back again. This time my patience was wearing thin but I told her the problem again but she again argued with me and was convinced that I was lying to her. This time I just hung up and thankfully she didnt ring back.

Our number used to be the same as an estate agents, but the dialling code was different. Most people accepted they'd made an error when I told them but I had a similar chap to your lady who kept ringing back and getting very angry with me.
We also had a number one digit different to a cab firm which was massively annoying at 2am!!

 

[ColinJ]

Our number used to be the same as an estate agents, but the dialling code was different. Most people accepted they'd made an error when I told them but I had a similar chap to your lady who kept ringing back and getting very angry with me.
We also had a number one digit different to a cab firm which was massively annoying at 2am!!

I had a triple whammy - same number as a big supermarket, nearly same dial code; one digit different to local police station; one digit different to local C.A.B.!

I forgave the people who misdialled just the once but got irate with the ones who kept using 'remisdial' even after I explained why it would not work and asked them to stop!

 

[ufkacbln]

We used to have a similar number to a local takeaway, it was on the border of two dialling codes

We would always point out the error

Cheekiest was the guy who asked how far away we were form the takeaway and if he gave us the order could we nip across and plae it for him

 

[ColinJ]

We used to have a similar number to a local takeaway, it was on the border of two dialling codes

We would always point out the error

Cheekiest was the guy who asked how far away we were form the takeaway and if he gave us the order could we nip across and plae it for him

Ha ha!

That reminds me ... I was in my local chip shop a couple of weeks ago and saw a notice on the wall ...

A drunken customer staggered in and asked if we did takeaways.
We said "Of course we do!"
He said "Okay, so whash 379 takeaway 164?"
We laughed so much we decided to give him a free bag of chips!