Funny wrong numbers????

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My funniest was years ago, I picked up the phone, and an african voice said: "Is that the Nigerian High Commission?

It certainly was not. I got a few further requests for passports, then it stopped.

we are currently getting pestered by people wanting chinese food - just had one 10 mins ago
Maybe i should cook them - calls would soon dry up :o

My aunt continually called the wrong number for my nan. After 10 years or so, they now send christmas cards!

I got a great phone call once from a guy with a VERY posh accent. He was trying to phone The Times to tell them there was an error in their crossword. He would not believe me when I told him it was a private number, and eventually hung up. I bet when he redialled he told The Times that their receptionist had been very rude .

I regularly have a man who calls "about the labels" I patiently tell him that I know nothing about "the labels" to which he always says "oh, ok then." and hangs up. He's called about ten times in a few months....bit of a nutter.

We are Mile End sports stadium.

We have a lot of answerphone messages from 5 aside football teams trying to book us. One day I'll say yes.

Oh Anenome, one day you will have to ask him what he means! And then report back, I am intrigued :)

I've had a few calls and texts on my mobile from a man asking for Roshan, his son. He gets quite irate when I tell him its the wrong number so I usually ignore it. He called on my wedding day just as I was on my way to the ceremony and accused me of stealing Roshan's phone, I hung up on him and switched my phone off. I haven't heard from him recently, hopefully hes got the message!

I had a voicemail left on my phone one saying 'Hello love. It's just Dad, wondering how you're getting on. Not to worry, I'll try again later'

My Dad died 24 years ago - trust me to miss that call!!!

It did make us laugh!

I get an average of 4 calls a month for the Spanish embassy. I can't believe the number of people that dial the wrong city. DS sometimes answers the phone saying hola to confuse.

My mobile number appeared in the Coventry yellow pages under an electrician's name. I lived in Cheshire. I was an accountant. I got loads of messages asking me to come and look at their wiring.

I got £400 from them in compensation. Later, I thought a) I'd given in too easily, they might have offered more and b) it could have been worse, it could have been on a 'business card' in a phone box.

Most mornings around 7.15 an old lady rings up asking 'is that Sue?'
No wrong number I say.
Then today she rang back half hour later saying 'is that Sue?'

Still 'no'.

I hope Sue isnt waiting to hear from her Grandma or something!

A twist on the thread but when I was seventeen, a particularly shitty boyfriend dumped me in a very bad fashion. I was so miffed at the injustice of it all so I got my one-up by placing an ad in the free local rag "Buzz Lightyear toy in box brand new, unwanted gift. £1" This was at the height of the Toy Story craze.

Oh how I tried not to laugh as a mutual friend told me about him and his awful family having to do shifts fielding the calls [ grin]

Should have said I put his home number in the ad!

DH gets folk asking for their dog to be groomed, our house phone gets diverted to his mobile for the taxi.

We once got up to find that in the night DH had a load of missed calls on his mobile. When we played them back they were all from a woman who had broken her leg and been taken in to A and E and was trying to contact her family to let them know.

As the night went on she got increasingly frustrated, irate and then just plain upset that her nearest and dearest had not appeared.

Oh hang on - that's not actually very funny is it? Poor woman!!

We had a series of wrong numbers for a Mr Someone (I can't remember the actual name). They were from social services, the council, the physiotherapy department, the aclohol rehabilitation team and so on. We had one message left that said 'Mr Someone, the carers are waiting outside. We're a bit worried about you because this is the second day we've had any answer. Are you ok Mr Someone? Please call us back!'.

I called all the numbers back to let them know it was the wrong number...I hope he was ok!

We also had one on Christmas Day from some Canadian people claiming to be our long-lost relatives and they were so pleased to have tracked us down after all these years! I don't think they believed me when I told them it was the wrong number!

For about 5 years we got Christmas cards for the ex-owners of the house. I always wondered how close they are if they didnt know they had moved.

We get lots of calls for the hairdressers up the road as our numbers are similar.

I remember once at work there was a problem with the echange and our phones went mad for about half an our with old dears ringing p to complain about Emmerdale and how there was too much death on TV. They thought they were ringing a phone in on This Morning apparently

My gran's telephone number used to get mixed up with a local taxi company... After a couple of months of them having this happen most nights, whenever a family member rang my Gran, it became a family joke to start off by saying "oh hello, I'd like a taxi please..." My poor gran :)

"Hello, is this the Co-Op Bank?"

"No, I'm afraid this is a private residence."

"Oh...are you sure?"

Well, let me just go and check....

I'va had an answer machine message left once about sending a catalogue as this old lady wanted item no xxx on pg x

She left her number so I called her back and explained just in case she got pissed off waiting for it - she was a sweetie

Today got another message from a lady wanting the details of her coach trip next week - departure times, travel times etc

I used to work in an office that had formerly been council offices. Clearly they didn't change the numbers from council phone numbers, as I used to get frequent phone calls on my extension from people wanting to renew their library books.

loving this I once finished work and switched my phone on, there was a voicemail. I heard lots of moaning, I thought someone was maybe hurt but then a male voice joined in by which point I was grinning I still haven't worked out who it is
Also when I used to work in a hotel in North Wales many years ago we used to get alot of crank calls. One particulary sticks in my mind, the reception was at the front of the hotel and opposite the window was a red call box.. we used to get calls saying that the caller could see us on the toilet, cue some rude words and the phone being slammed down. We figured they must have been coming from the phone box opposite but never reported it...I also in another hotel got a call one sunday morning asking if I would do a survey for a well known magazine, it asked questions such as what brand of this perfume do I buy etc then leapt straight into and "what is your fav sexual position" cue again the phone being slammed down !!