thought i'd put this on a blog that people actually read, as opposed to my own...
is it just me, or are people getting more stupid? this woman has been calling me for two days looking for someone named nancy. i don't know where she got it in her mind that my phone number is nancy's number, but she did. she started calling me about an hour and a half ago, and when i picked up the phone she said, 'i'm sorry, i must have the wrong number, are you nancy?' she's called about every 10 minutes since 9:30.
if you were a person looking for nancy, how many times would you call and get the wrong number before you stopped? personally, after the second time i dialed a number and it turned out to be wrong, i'd start to feel dumb and would stop calling.
ok, the first time you call, what do you do? you ask for the person, if it's the wrong number, you verify that you dialed correctly and then hang up. if you try again, and you get the same wrong number, doesn't it stand to reason that somewhere along the line there has been some miscommunication? then i'd go back to the source to try and get the right number.
calling the wrong number back in hopes that miraculously, nancy has somehow gotten into my pants and now has my phone? odds are against that one, folks.
the last time this woman called, she inquired if i'd had this number for a long time. apparently, i've not had it long enough for her to figure out that she's still dialing the wrong number.
that's it. people are just getting dumber.
Oh that frustrates me...BIG time. I have to say though...using the um, she doesn't live here scheme has finally gotten to me when the cops called me. OOOOOH sounds more interesting than it is. But its always a good story :)
Posted by: Meeta at October 13, 2003 11:15 PMI hate that too!! I just got a new cell phone and I've been getting calls, "MA?" "um, NO". Its pathetic if your mom didn't give you her new number!!
Posted by: Lucy at October 14, 2003 01:01 AMWe started getting new area codes in North Carolina about a year ago (or was it two?) and had to use ten-digit dialing for all calls. People often remember someone's seven-digit number, and use the older area code by default. I've been fortunate, my cell phone has been mine for over four years, the number wasn't in use before I got it, and I only get maybe one or two wrong numbers in a year. (Of course, now that I've said this, all heck's gonna break loose.)
Posted by: keith at October 14, 2003 07:46 AMYoshi, she was not really calling for Nancy. She is actually a phone stalker and she waa hoping you'd ask her out.
Either that or she just had a total lobotomy.
Posted by: Michael at October 14, 2003 08:01 AMMy new mobile # was obviously owned by a guy named "Dave". The same stupid fuckers, 5-6 of them, keep calling me day after day (for the last 1.5 months) asking for Dave, only after I don't answer twice when I see their number come up on the caller id and answer their thrid call out of sheer frustration do they say, "Oh, I forgot, this is not Dave's # anymore...sorry." They will learn their lesson soon enough, their cell phone #'s are now proudly displayed on a few bathroom walls with some cleverly worded invitations to CALL ME, ANYTIME!
Posted by: btezra at October 14, 2003 11:12 AM