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Post by Bara on Jun 7, 2013 15:29:20 GMT -5
Phone rings :
ME : Hello?
THEM : Gavin?
ME : No, I'm sorry you have the wrong number.
THEM : Oh ok.
Hangs up. Phone rings.
ME : Hello?
THEM : Gavin?
ME : No, I'm sorry, you still have the wrong number.
So then we go on. Who are you trying to call? Can you remember his number? (It's one digit away from mine.) So then we go on. Now it's me phoning Gavin.
So I get hold of Mrs Gavin, but Gavin is out. I've left the message.
So it will stop?
"Hello, it's Gail, who are you? Are you in Eshaness?"
"NO! I JUST GOT A WRONG NUMBER! "
Could someone please go to see to this poor person?
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Post by niaru on Jun 7, 2013 16:33:57 GMT -5
Hahaha!
Reminds me of the time when my parents had the same phone #, but for one digit, as a mechanic's. It was too funny, as my mother, too polite to interrupt, would listen patiently to the litany of complaints before venturing a timid "Yes but I'm sorry, but..."
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Post by Bara on Jun 7, 2013 21:48:05 GMT -5
Hee Hee! Your poor mum! Years ago, when I worked in London, we used to get loads of calls for Swissair. One day, some woman just wouldn't accept that she had the wrong number ~(  ?) - so eventually I just took the booking!! I still feel guilty, wondering if they turned up at the airport .... But honestly, no matter how much I told her we weren't Swissair ... |
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Post by ZenRider on Jun 7, 2013 22:09:49 GMT -5
My favorite, "Are you sure so-and-so isn't there?" Yup, pretty sure.
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Post by Bara on Jun 8, 2013 0:26:32 GMT -5
I know - that was the Swissair woman. She just wouldn't take no for an answer. I wonder if she's sitting at the Swissair gate at Heathrow, 10 years on. No, I do feel guilt, I do. But at least I didn't process her credit card .....
Now, do I SOUND like Gavin, to you?
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Post by jbrooks on Jun 8, 2013 13:41:30 GMT -5
We had a number that was one off from a local bar. Every Friday and Saturday nights we'd get several calls. Mostly wife's/girlfriends looking for their men. Some sober, some not so sober, had one who knew this was the bar, and I was not telling the truth, so finally I said "Yes, your right he just left with some blond......OK !!!" and hung up.
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Post by Big Tee© on Jun 8, 2013 13:58:25 GMT -5
New pizza joint in the city, and it has a new phone number. Unfortunately, the number is one digit off from a friend's number. He now gets calls at 3AM for all dressed pizzas and pop. He also has to be at work at 7AM and is getting very cranky. Another friend had a number one digit off from the number issued to Rotten Ronnie's.......er McDonalds and he used to get phonecalls at 5AM and the conversation went much like this - "this is _______ and i'm sick this morning, and I won't be in", he would mumble something then get the incredulous voice saying "well, isn't this McDonalds? I'm sick and can't come in to work!". He said they always acted like it was his fault for answering when the caller made the mistake
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Post by Bara on Jun 8, 2013 14:10:41 GMT -5
You're rotten, both of you. At least I feel guilty about the Swissair woman, And as for Gavin. I did my best.
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Post by Lisa on Jun 8, 2013 20:01:47 GMT -5
Whats a dressed pizza? Is that like a pizza w/ everything? Just never heard that term!!
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Post by Big Tee© on Jun 8, 2013 20:53:51 GMT -5
Wha'd'ya mean what's an all dressed pizza?? that's pizza with everything but the kitchen sink on it!!!LOL Probably one of those regional terms
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Post by Lisa on Jun 8, 2013 20:59:49 GMT -5
Gottcha!!! I'm going to say that the next time I order a pizza just to see what response I'll get!! lol
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Post by Bara on Jun 9, 2013 0:08:53 GMT -5
Well, yeah, Lisa - but dial carefully!
(As an aside : Why do we still say dial? When's the last time anyone used a phone with a dial? Welkie-pops probably hasn't ever seen one.)
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?) - so eventually I just took the booking!!
