Althouse: Nothing but wrong numbers.

November 9, 2010

Nothing but wrong numbers.

ADDED: "Mary Ellen, here's your plates. Now stop calling, please, Daddy's busy."

13 comments:

Chase said...: Used to have a land line with the same number - except the last digit - as a large Realty Company in our town.

Me: "Hello"

Caller: "Yes, I'm calling about the 3 bedroom for sale in the old part of downtown."

Me: "You want the _______ Realty company. There number is the same as this except the last number is a 3 instead of a 2."

Caller: "Can't you just transfer me?"

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Me: "May I speak to someone at the _______ Realty Company? I keep getting calls for you guys, my number's the same except it ends in 2 instead of 3".

Realty Genius: "Sorry about that. Could you give them our number?"

Me: "I do when it's live. But these calls are clogging up my voice mail."

Realty Genius: " Oh! Could you write them down and email them to us?"

Me: "No. But if you want to set up a voice mail through the provider we both use, I could forward them to you as a courtesy."

Realty Genius: "No. that's okay. Why don't you change your number? (I had mine 4 years before they got theirs).

Me: Hangs-up; 11/9/10, 5:40 PM
former law student said...: 1. Get Meade to record the outgoing message. Wrong number callers will hang up.

2. And reset the time already. That plaintive 'CL' requires attention.; 11/9/10, 5:41 PM
Chase said...: (Continued).
About a year later, I had a friend in Real Estate who changed his provider to the same as mine, and I just auto forwarded all of the Realty inquires to him probabaly 150+ over the next year. He made 7 sales before I moved and had to get a different number.

Yes, I got a couple of nice presents and some cash out of it. But nothing as nice as knowing I was able to steer business away from the patronizing idiots at the first company.; 11/9/10, 5:45 PM
EK said...: Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound"--fair, but not great. The dream sequence by Dali is what the film is best known for today.; 11/9/10, 6:00 PM
1775OGG said...: One day, years ago, shortly after dinner, my phone rang so I answered it with my usual greeting! The caller demanded: "Who is this?" My response was: "Who are you?" The caller became very angry and cursed me out. I then hung up. Shortly after the phone rang and the caller told me it was rude to hang up on him!

Moral of the story: None! Life goes on!

Cheers.; 11/9/10, 6:20 PM
Chip Ahoy said...: Mary Ellen, here's your plates. Now stop calling, please, Daddy's busy.; 11/9/10, 6:39 PM
Ann Althouse said...: LOL.

BTW, she's not saying "This is your dad." She's saying "This is [name deleted]." I have the name but I clipped it out. It begins with J and ends with D.; 11/9/10, 8:11 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: From August:

Wrong Number Texter: "Did you make it home ok gorgeous"
Me: "Yeah, I met a really cool guy on my way. He gave me a ride. Do you think you can pick me up from his house?"
Texter: "Yeah where would i need to go"
Me: "Just kidding. You texted the wrong number last night. Good luck with 'gorgeous.'"
Texter: "Is this kelsey"
Me: "No. Completely wrong number. This is Steve."

I am not a Steve, but I'd like for wrong number texters to think I am.

I was rather surprised that he was willing to pick her up from another man's house.; 11/9/10, 8:40 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Althouse.. the Smithsonian called.. they want their phone back ;); 11/9/10, 9:55 PM
MamaM said...: I'm stuck wondering what Mary Catherine has done to earn a Black Heart.; 11/9/10, 10:56 PM
BJM said...: @Freeman

I was rather surprised that he was willing to pick her up from another man's house.

Booty text?; 11/9/10, 11:09 PM
jungatheart said...: Think if a lot of posters interpreted the plates as the the caller described. I don't think I would have went with a black heart, a la Chip.; 11/10/10, 12:17 AM
jungatheart said...: PS, I wasn't thinking straight, and when the lady was describing the leaves, I thought, 'can't she tell they're holly leaves?'; 11/10/10, 12:33 AM