Creepy

[pennylane]

I just don't answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. Same with texts. Ignore it.

But it seems a little strange that all of these random people somehow got your number. Usually I just get people who dialed wrong.

[Smurfette]

I think I am going to change my number. It is getting way beyond annoying

[basilosaurus]

My phone number spells a curse word(s). Every so often I'll get calls from what sounds like middle schoolers who giggle and squeak out a "wrong number."

How do I know why my # spells? Because some helpful stranger sent me a text. I was amused.

You should hang up long before you manage to have a conversation. Just tell them wrong number and hang up on them.

[amaristella]

If you don't mind changing your number, then do that. Otherwise, I'd lie low from my phone for a while and change my voicemail greeting to something that very clearly states who can be found at that number.

[bettydraper]

Change your #, that's ultra creepy.

[JakJak]

That is creepy. That's one too many weird calls for me, I would change the #

[G22]

Aug 10, 2012 10:58:07 GMT -5 pennylane said:

I just don't answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. Same with texts. Ignore it.

But it seems a little strange that all of these random people somehow got your number. Usually I just get people who dialed wrong.

Same here. If I don't recognize the number, I don't answer. If its important they can leave a voicemail.

[Beeps (WOT?*)]

I was invited to a few pick-up basketball games before I finally texted back that I don't think they wanted me on their team since I was old, out of shape and couldn't make a basket to save my life. We had a couple chuckles over that and I haven't been invited back since.

My old home phone number was a former number for the parks department for many years. I spent two-plus years telling people it was a wrong number and giving them the correct number. Once, we got a call from someone wanting to know where to drop off the playground set for installation; I was almost tempted to call them and give them my address for that one. Another time we had a guy call to tell us "I dropped off the dirt now where do I take the paperwork?" I told him he had a wrong number and gave him the Parks and Rec main number (which was closed at the time since it was only shortly after 7:00 a.m.) and he told me repeatedly "This is the right number. I've called this number for years. Now you tell me where I need to bring the paperwork." He called back numerous times insisting we knew where he was supposed to be. I finally got him to call Parks and Rec during regular business hours.

[basilosaurus]

I hate it when people insist they called the right number.

I had vonage in Japan with an area code from my parents' city. It was a 13-14hr time change. Occasionally we'd get a wrong number, which of course would be about 3am our time. No one calls at that time except in an emergency, right, so we'd lunge to answer. Obnoxious, but understandable. One time a woman bitched me out that of course she dialed right. I told her she called Japan

There was another person I had to block who kept calling my cell phone demanding to speak with her daughter. She literally called 10 times while I was in the shower. She refused to believe it wasn't her work number. Even if it was, I wouldn't have made a coworker get on the phone with such an unstable woman!

[nsl]

Yes, change the number. If the cell provider gives you any trouble about it, tell them that you've been getting multiple wrong number calls every day. This happened to my mom, and they were very cooperative about changing her number at no cost once she explained the situation.

[kcd0531]

Back in college I would get the random phone call and would hear this weird sound/noise on the other end and after saying "Hello?" once or twice without a response would hang up. This happened on a number of occasions until one day a man finally picked up the line and started cussing me out telling me to stop picking up the fax line. I laughed out loud and told him he was calling a private home phone number and NOT a fax line. That ended those annoying calls - and I got educated on what a fax sounded like.

[brandienee]

About every three months I get a random old lady calling for "Gary" saying that she still has his prescription. LOL. I keep telling her that it's a wrong number, but she doesn't listen. It's almost like clockwork.

I don't really worry about it anymore. I just get that one old lady, sometimes her son, but they aren't annoying about it.