Have you ever had someone that keeps leaving messages on your cell phone thinking you are a work contact?

I would call and tell them. Someone with a doctor’s office left a message for a client on my phone to verify an appointment. I called and explained she had called the wrong number. The receptionist thanked me and said she’d call the person again.

I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve called the wrong number, realized what I’d done after it started ringing and hung up the phone only to have someone call me back wanting to know who had called their number. They sort of grill me. That always make me shake my head. Don’t people dial wrong numbers anymore.

A wrong number is one thing. Leaving a message is another. I’d try to straighten it out if it was more than one message.

I often get calls from the same elderly woman. My number and her granddaughter’s are similar and she mixes up two digits. She is mortified when she hears my voice and always apologizes for bothering me. I really don’t mind. I still say “Hi” and ask how she is doing. We are now on a first name basis. .

I’d call the number back and tell them.

I’ve never gotten a work message, but I get wrong numbers all the time, from people thinking that I’m a condo association or someone’s grandkid (kept my Florida number, haha). I’ll call back if someone leaves a message, just so they know that their message was not conveyed to the right person. Recently I got a message from someone’s grandmother telling her grandson about when the funeral was… I thought it was really important to call her back, and she was grateful!

I get wrong number messages left on my home phone almost every month. The last one, in fact, was from “Gary, across the street”, calling his neighbor “Steve” about something that Steve was going to give away, but Gary had changed his mind and wanted to buy from him after all.

I’m not Gary, or Steve, and none of my neighbors has either of those names, either. So I called back Gary to let him know that he hadn’t actually called Steve, and he should try again.

The funniest one, though, was a message that was left on my machine (on a Friday afternoon) from “Dr. Smith’s office”, and a message left that “Alex’s procedure went well, and his penis should heal normally with routine care, and he could be picked up and taken home any time”. Ouch! I spent a certain amount of trouble tracking down the number from my caller ID to find that “Dr. Smith” was a veterinarian, and Alex was a dog. But I still called the answering service for the vet to try to alert them to the error and make sure Alex got home okay.

No kidding? Too funny. That is hilarious, @CWOTUS.

This reminds me of a bizarre story. I got a new mobile phone and soon after, I was receiving calls for a Paula someone who clearly owed people a lot of money.

The calls were not that frequent. But would come at inopportune times. And would go something like:

“You are not Paula? are you sure? could you put Paula on the line?

One day, I was patient enough to engage in a conversation with a caller wanting Paula. I explained that since I had this phone, I have been called by people. That no, I was not Paula nor did I know her at all.
Shortly thereafter I received a call from a supervisor who said “Hello Paula, you chatted with our call center agent a few days ago and he said you are happy to pay us back a certain amount each month, can you verify this in writing?”

I gave up. When they rang after that, I’d hang up or fart on the phone basically

If i intercept the call, i just say wrong number.
If it is voice mail, i just delete it.
If it is a stray text, i may play with them a bit.
A stray email, i block it.
I just don’t have the time to correct their mistake.

Actually, the person leaving the calls was me. I was calling a fairly high up official in the organization named Lisa leaving a few messages that was dealing with a crisis going on in the office. One call last week was for her to call ASAP on a conference call. Another call to her today was requesting information that was needed immediately. Both times I didn’t hear back from her and my boss had to call her.
Later in the day I get a call from a woman saying “this is Lisa, is this Chyna from Fluther?” I’m thinking “WHAT?! This woman is on Fluther? How did she know I was Chyna?” Then she tells me she is Auggie! I had Auggies number in my phone from when we met two years ago!
I was totally delighted to hear from her and to know I needed to add last names in my cell phone.
Thank you Lisa for clearing up my phone message debacle!

It was so funny! The first message, I just thought, “Oh, wrong number” and disregarded it, since I didn’t hear it til hours later. When I got another one today, it finally clicked that it was @chyna and I called to let her know she’d got the wrong Lisa.

You were calling the wrong Lisa? Oh, no! How flipping funny, @chyna.

That is funny.

My cellphone number was listed in a national insurance company’s contact for a large Chiropractor office in my old state.
It took three months to fix it.

@Tropical_Willie I think I would have changed my phone number.

Not an option. It has been my “contact number” for almost twenty years.

Before that I had a dude calling to “score a bag”.

I used to have a phone number one digit off from a very popular restaurant in town. We’d get calls for reservations constantly. It was so annoying!

My land line is one digit off from the pizza shop in town. I started having fun with it by taking orders. I know, it was mean.

Oh that is so mean. I’m expecting pizza and I get squat. Evil

That is a great story. How truly funny would it be to be in a meeting or at work and find other Jellies.

@chyna if you answer the door and the pizza delivery person has a few for you, just know it wasn’t me~

I’ve had my phone for 2½ years, and now finally people are quitting calling me. It’s really funny, because apparently an inner-city 20-something whose mom was dying and had a lot of girlfriends used to have my number. The frustrating thing is that it’s a prepaid phone, and they were using up all my money. I just told them he got a new phone. They got the message eventually.

@chyna Did you ever tell the other Lisa what had happened?

@augustlan No I never got to talk to her!

I keep hearing this.

@bkcunningham That is hilarious!