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[bjork]

I'm in the shower, and the phone rings. I go get it, and it's some guy I went to class with a few months ago. He just called to say hello.

Does anyone ever call to say hello any more? I kept waiting for him to ask me for money or something, but he just said hello and that was it. Very odd.

 

[Freestyler]

He wants you!

 

[Leon]

I live in Montreal, Canada.


The phone rings : "Hi, I'm calling from California, but I noticed we have the same last name. I was just wondering, are we related?"

I say no, I don't think we are, and she just says ok and hangs up.

Most random phone call ever.

 

[fart]

he's stalking you.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Came home once to hear this being belted out by a delusional old woman through my answering machine:
"Hello, Patrick? Its Gloria! I've been home since APRIL THE TENTH. Give me a call. I love you darling."

Oh yeah, I'm not Patrick. And I never met a Gloria.
The last four digits of my phone # are sequential, so I get a lot of random shit.

 

[bjork]

I once had a guy try to prank call me, but I usually go along with the gag.

"Hey, you fag"
"yes?"
"Ew, you suck dick, don't you?"
"Yeah, I do. Got any money?"
"Nah, you wanna suck it for free?"
"Sure, meet me at the wal-mart parking lot"
"Alright dawg"
:he hangs up:

I don't know if he went to WM or not, but I still laughed as I hung up the phone.

 

[Idle Will Kill]

I don't see the big deal. He was probably just trying to hang out with you or something, but since you didn't turn the converstation that way, he probably just backed out and made it sound like a quick little hello.

 

[bishoptl]

I turned on my cell phone to check my messages about 3 months ago...and found a 4 minute heated dialogue in Japanese from some guy. I had a friend translate - apparently I've got some merchandise coming into the Port of Vancouver and the original seller is pretty pissed I haven't fronted the money yet.

Needless to say, I've been on the watch for yakuza on my front lawn.

 

[themadcowtipper]

When people call me with the wrong number I usually say the person stepped out, and talk to them for awhile, letting them know later, they have the wrong number.

Goodtimes had by all.

Or I might take a message for the person, and Say I will give it to them When they get back, never letting them know it is a wrong number.

 

[Chrono]

I once got a 2 minute message from some lady at the hospital... she was saying that some other girls is OK and that I should visit her or something. Of course she got my name wrong and I don’t know anybody in the hospital. She never called again so I guess she realized it was the wrong number.

Needless to say, I've been on the watch for yakuza on my front lawn.

:lol

 

[Manabanana]

I like to answer my friends' cell phones and the tell the person they have the wrong number. They never argue, even though they often just called using a programmed number in a cell phone.

 

[Grey Fox]

A girl I knew in middle school would call me every now and then,even after I moved.It was kinda creepy.Especially when she called and wished me a happy birthday.

 

[Alex Anderson]

I go get it, and it's some guy I went to class with a few months ago. He just called to say hello.

Maybe you're his only friend

A girl I knew in middle school would call me every now and then,even after I moved.It was kinda creepy.Especially when she called and wished me a happy birthday.

Maybe you're her only friend

 

[bjork]

Maybe you're his only friend

No, he's like 45 with a wife and kids and stuff. But he's nursing a broken leg, so I guess he must be bored or something.

I should've told him about these forums...

 

[Alex Anderson]

Or I might take a message for the person, and Say I will give it to them When they get back, never letting them know it is a wrong number.

Excellent idea. I'll have to try this, adding some ridiculous reason as to why the person stepped out. "Yeah, we were talking and he said he was really in the mood for some muffins. Weird, huh? I'll tell him you called."

In some unknown location, later that day....

<random dumb bitch who can't dial correctly> SO. HOW WERE THE MUFFINS?
<random dumb bitch's stupid friend> ????

 

[White Man]

'm in the shower, and the phone rings. I go get it, and it's some guy I went to class with a few months ago. He just called to say hello.

Does anyone ever call to say hello any more? I kept waiting for him to ask me for money or something, but he just said hello and that was it. Very odd.

High school or college friend? Funny things happen to people who were solid and inconspicuous in school. I know a few pretty twisted, lonely people whom I never thought would be lower than myself, but there they are, feeding off the brief (but probably emotional for them) interpersonal comunications they have with old friends, like a [flying] cockroach feeding off the spunk spackled to the tile underneath the refrigerator.

 

[fart]

hot

 

[DeEJaYMiND]

Once a received a call from some guy who was instantly pissed because it was a guy on the other side of the line and he asked "Who are you and why are you answering my Girlfriends phone?". I still don&#8217;t know why but I quickly told him "She was all sweaty of the sex and she is in the shower right now&#8230;". The other guy went all "WTF YOU PIECE OF M.F. SHIT&#8230; I&#8217;M GONA KILL YOU" and I simple said "TAKE A NUMBER" and hang up. Never got a second call&#8230; mixed lines are a bitch sometimes :lol

 

[Vormund]

wow imagine what would happen when he caught up with his gf.

 

[DarienA]

bjork I suggest you keep your buttcheeks tightly clenched when you walk around... you never know when this guy might show up!

 

[Suerte]

The plan is working nicely.... eh what

 

[capslock]

"Seven Days."

 

[Suerte]

WOOT

Can't wait for The Ring 2.

 

[DJ Demon J]

Needless to say, I've been on the watch for yakuza on my front lawn.

"But Marge, the little guy hasn't done anything yet! And you know when he does it's gonna be really cool!"

 

[beerbelly]

I get calls that no one answers to, but that's about it.

 

[Cherubae]

I had a call many years ago from a guy saying how he was at the airport and he had been waiting for me to come pick him up. I had no clue who the guy was, but he thought my Samurai Pizza Cats answering machine message was cute.

When I moved into my new place a little old lady called trying to get a hold of her friend. I told her she had the wrong number and she even read off the number she was calling. She called several times and each time I told her she had the wrong number. We wrote it off as something wrong with the phone lines, then after I hung up I realized that she was calling the correct number and that it was my number now. Poor old lady was probably confused for the rest of the day.

 

[B'z-chan]

I get about 4-5 calls a night 2am-7am from unusual people. Just random people. I actually had a conversation one night with some person that i didnt know at all. Just a random conversation about common or current events. It was enjoyable to say the least. And they didnt even know why the picked up there phone in the first place.

I've had people call from China and who are looking for a sex shop in my town (at least thats what i could make out)

Several english people, very nice people i might add. I also talked to one of them for a while. Interesting to hear how things are going on in other countries.

 

[Lemurnator]

I used to have my cellphone number in my AIM profile and certain forum profiles. I got a lot of prank/weird calls. Mostly people calling and hanging up or breathing into the telephone.

 

[Miguel]

Sorry.

 

[Catzgirl]

Sometimes I get calls from this weird Canadian guy in Vancouver. Pfft.

 

[mightynine]

Quick background: I work at a AM radio station and I've had to fill in running the morning show a good bit lately.

So there I am in the control room, just relaxing since the show doesn't start until 5:30. And one of the talk lines ring. I figured it's nothing more than someone letting us know about a traffic situation, but instead it's this crazy woman who's been calling a lot lately, saying her granddaughter who was killed years ago just called in or something along those lines.

Usually she's already talking like she's in a tizzy, but apparently at 5 am, she's refreshed, but still not all there. She starts off by saying she just heard her daughter saying "Help me" on our station, and that she's been saying "Help me" for months now and meanwhile, her son used to be in the army and she saw on the TV someone who looks like her son in his uniform in a dark room about to be beheaded.

Having dealt with this before, I calmly tell her that maybe she should call the TV station if that's what she saw, since she's just rambling. Then she gets all agitated so I just hang up on her, which is how our conversations usually end.

I feel sorry for her, but from what I can gather she's in some sort of home because she talks about managers and what not.

 

[Catzgirl]

I used to have my cellphone number in my AIM profile and certain forum profiles. I got a lot of prank/weird calls. Mostly people calling and hanging up or breathing into the telephone.

Uh, why would you put your cell number online? That's just asking for trouble.

 

[neptunes]

when I lived in an apartment couple years back.

some guy masked his voice and said he could see me from the next door apartment building and that he could shoot me. (you can see into each other's homes from your balcony)

I quickly hanged up, only to realize it was my bigger sister at her friends house..at the same apartment building.

 

[Miguel]

Sometimes I get calls from this weird Canadian guy in Vancouver. Pfft.

Well, you have to specify. Does he sound like Martin Lawrence, Ben Stiller, or have wierd music and feet stomping in the background?

 

[Lemurnator]

Uh, why would you put your cell number online? That's just asking for trouble.

So that people I know offline could call me just in case they didn't know my number or if there was an emergency.

 

[tt_deeb]

My friend one time got this call on his cellphone and it was some chick who just kept blabbing on and on random stuff like "Oh, I fell off my bed today" and she knew his name too and left a number. He called it back but it was some old lady. Never did find out who it was, it was a mad long message and it was odd because she would say something, then a pause and you'd think it was over. Then she would chime in again and speak like she had rehearsed it and would go " My # is...(computing) ....###-####"

 

[Miguel]

I put my cell in my AIM profile once.

I got a text message about 4 months later from a guy I knew on a forum, who lived in Houston, and was wondering why I didn't tell him I was going to the mall. @_@

I then took it down and banned him from the forum for a day.

OMG MIG HAD MOD POWERS YES. But anyway, yeah, didn't do it again.

 

[sc0la]

Satan called and left a message on my answering machine once. True story.

I played the message and there was this noise, some crackling and then this extremely low and vibrant voice speaking some sort of bizzare demonic verse. It was pretty cool, though it made the hair on my neck and arms stand up

 

[=W=]

I've never really received any weird phone calls, but I've made some.

In college, me and some friends had an intramural sports team called Team Sabo, named after Cincinnati Reds baseball player ('88-'93, '96) Chris Sabo. Before one of our games, we went to whitepages.com and looked up every listing for Chris Sabo and called them to try and get some motivational words. Most didn't answer the phone, but whenever they did, we would ask, "Hello! Is this 1988 Cincinnati Reds rookie of the year, Chris Sabo, who played with the Reds from the years 1988 to 1993 and then again in 1996?" Most said no. One said yes, but he lied.

We never did get to talk to Chris Sabo.

By the way, we were an intramural football team.

 

[GDJustin]

Someone called my house phone one night at like 1AM (mind you I live at home with my mom). The only background information you need to know is that I run a pretty big message board.

"...hello?"

"hello. Is this justin?"

"yes... who are you?"

"you know who this is"

*laughing* "..alright"

"yeah how about you stop hotlinking my shit?"

"what the hell are you talking about about?"

"shut up. You KNOW what I'm talking about"

"jesus christ dude, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about"

*voice wavering* yeah... I bet you don't *hangs up*

Obviously immediately afterwards I logged on my boards and I guess some guy had been freaking out there all weekend over a user there who was hotlinking a single image off this guy's server. Yeah my boards are big, but it couldn't have totalled more than a couple megs of bandwidth. My mods had banned him, so I never even saw his posts. To get my home # the guy actually did a whois lookup on my domain 0.o

 

[Mike Works]

Sometimes I get calls from this weird Canadian guy in Vancouver. Pfft.

Sometimes I dial the wrong number and get desperately horny american housemoms. It's sad, really.

 

[Catzgirl]

Sometimes I dial the wrong number and get desperately horny american housemoms. It's sad, really.

No no, the worst is when Canadian guys starts going on and on about moose, aboots, eh, and admins. It's pronounced add-men. Not ad-mean. :rolleyes

 

[raYne]

I usually get:

1) People that call and say nothing on the other line. Because of that I only say "hello" once, if I get no immediate reply I hang up since I'm not the one calling you, so you should be paying attention.

2) People that call and say something in spanish, so I have no idea what they're talking about. But I'll usually reply with que?... que!?... QUE!?. Had one guy on for almost 5 minutes before he gave up.

The weirdest one I ever got was a call from some Lexus dealership telling me my car was ready.... *hint* I have no Lexus.

"Hello"
"Hello, is this Mr. ____? This is ____ from the Lexus dealership calling to tell you that your car is ready."
"Uhh.. sorry, you have the wrong number."
"Oh, ok.. sorry."
*hangs up*

(5 mins later)

"Hello.."
"Hello, is this Mr. ____? This is ____ from the Lexus dealership calling to tell you that your car is ready."
"You just called here and I told you it was the wrong number!"
"Seriously?... ok thanks..." *hangs up*

(10 mins later I get another call but there's a woman on the line this time)

"Hello..."
"Hi Mr.___, this is Kristen from the Lexus dealership. You can pick up your car when you're ready."
"Oh yeah? I have a bad memory, remind me what I dropped off there again?"
"Uhh.. one sec... black 2003 IS300 right?"
"Uh huh..."
"Excuse me?"
"Listen Kristen, I already spoke to two people about this subject in the last few minutes. you... have.. the.... wrong... number."
"Oh, my mistake... sorry."
*hangs up*

(10 mins later)

"Hello..."
"Good afternoon Mr.___, this is Carl Johnson, manager of Lexus of Rockville..."
"Right..."
"You vehicle is ready so you can pick it up at your convenience.."
"Black 03 IS300 right?"
"That's correct."
"Ok, I'll be there in half an hour."
"That's fine, we'll be waiting"

now at this point he takes the phone away from his head to hang it up, but starts talking before he actually hangs it up.
"See? How fuckin' complicated was tha.." *click*

To this day I wonder if that guy picked up his car. :lol

 

[Dan]

now at this point he takes the phone away from his head to hang it up, but starts talking before he actually hangs it up.
"See? How fuckin' complicated was tha.." *click*

Haha. That's gold!

 

[Leon]

I usually get:

1) People that call and say nothing on the other line. Because of that I only say "hello" once, if I get no immediate reply I hang up since I'm not the one calling you, so you should be paying attention.

So true.

 

[way more]

I found this on my answering machine.

"Hi John, its M(chhh)a, I'm here a(chhhhh) not really sure (chhhh) to find (chhhh) Looking overhead (chhhhhh) directly below the moon. Woods (chhhhh) pine needles and a river. Not sure (chhhhh) find it. Goodbye "

It was longer then that but basically that was the message.


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