Phoney phone calls
Phoney phone calls
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#0Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:33am
*hyperventilates*
It's Sunday morning- who the heck calls so early except..."Robbie"
I answer my phone and this is the conversation.
Me(sounding alseep): hello?
Robbie- Hey baby
Me(freaked out)- who is this?
Robbie: It's Robbie hunny
Me: Uh- I don't think I know you
Robbie: Of course you do!
Me: Where do you know me from?
Robbie: *name of town I live in*
Me: I DO NOT KNOW YOU!
Robbie: I sure hope I didn't wake you sweetie pie.
Me(scared to death): ummm... How do you know me?
Robbie: Remember you smiled at me a few weeks ago? You are soo beautiful.
Me(getting my cell phone out in case I had to call 911-lol): I do not know you!
Robbie: You have such beautiful dark brown hair
Me: GOODBYE! (hangs up)
Why I stayed on the phone for so long- I will never know but that was freaky!! I got like 4 hours of sleep and I am scared to go back to sleep!!
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Updated On: 11/6/05 at 09:33 AM
#1re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:17am
that's really creepy.
mine's not as weird, but amusing...
my cell phone number is/was aparently the same as this guy's named LARRY who was a mechanic. so ALL THE TIME i get calls for people asking for Larry because they have some sort of car trouble!!
People have even left messages, long and detailed ones about their mufflers and what not. i don't understand though how they could leave those messages when my outgoing message definitely sounds like a young girl singing "i'm not here right now, leave a message!"
maybe one day i'll meet this larry character...
#3re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:42am
my phone is one number different from a popular barbeque joint in town, so I get phone calls ALL THE TIME from people wanting to order food. I eventually started taking their orders and leaving it at that 
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#4re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:45amMy number at home is one digit off from a number of a really prominent family in a Hassidic neighborhood nearby. So, we always get these old Jewish women calling, and we can never, ever understand what they're saying because of their accents. You'll be like "sorry, you've got the wrong number" and five minutes later, they'll be on the phone again. I guess they get their numbers confused?
#5re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:48am
This was quite a while ago, but...
when my brother was a newborn, it was the middle of the night and my mother had just fed him and gotten him to sleep (and my brother didn't go to sleep easily as a baby). What happens next, when both my mother and brother have gotten to sleep? THE PHONE RINGS and wakes the whole house up. It was some elderly farmer, who thought he was calling the DNR, in a panic about his crops. My father angrily informed him that we were NOT the DNR, that they wouldn't be open at this hour anyway, and to not call this number again. So, what happens an hour later? Our farmer friend calls again! My dad unplugged the phone every night for the next few months.
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etoile
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
#6re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:58pmWrong numbers...could it be the smaller the phones the smaller those little buttoms to push? Progress is never without some downside.
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SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#7re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:45pm
I actually just remembered another story-
It was like....7 years ago. Someone calls my house collect and the operator person asks for ____ (my name; first and last.) So, I get on the phone and she says- *guys name-I forget* wants to talk to you from Ghana Africa- will you accept this call. I said no. I had no clue who it was and was not about to pay for a collect call from Africa for someone whom I didn't know.
This went on all year long and eventually I just wanted to accept the call and see who the hell it was. Alas, I never did...oh-well.
No more collect calls from Ghana for me anymore.
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
#8re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:46pmIt was probably RobbieO who called you. He's a bit of a sketch ball, from what I hear.
#9re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:36pm
This is just a weird one.
During dinner, the phone rang. My mom answered it. It was a girl who seemed to know my name. I didn't know her, though. My mom asked, "Who is this?" and the girl responded... "I'm his girlfriend." I don't have a girlfriend, so that's ironic.
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theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#10re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:45pm
I never seem to get bad ones. But my friend had a hilarious one a couple years ago. Actually, it wasn't phony, just a telemarketer, but still very funny.
Telemarketer:Hello are your parents there?
My friend:No, sorry. They're busy right now.
Telemarketer:Oooohhhh....hehe. Busy doing what?(wink wink)
My friend:Um, work.
Telemarketer:Oh, well. I'll call back later.
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SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#11re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:50pm
Although telemarketers are soo annoying, you can do the best things with them!
For instance: I am a college student so they were trying to sell me something so I said
I am a college student- if you can pay my student loans, my rent, my food bills, my electricity bill and some others, I would be happy to buy what you are selling for 1 month!
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
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#12re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:58pmi love when i get telemarketers on the phone and respond w. Jerry seinfeld's answer that goes something like this..."Oh sorry i'm busy right now, can i have your home number, and i'll call you back later?" telemarketer: "umm...no" "why b/c you don't like people calling you at home?" telemarketer: "yea" "Well, now you kno how i feel." then he hangs up the phone. The ppl on the other line r always like.."whaa??" lol...so funny..if you watch seinfeld you'd kno wht i'm tlkin about.
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#13re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 5:01pmWhen I was thirteen, I got this guy "Mike" on the phone, who said that he knew me from elementary school. Being the naive little eighth grader I was, I thought that he was telling the truth, and started a conversation with him. Turns out he wasn't interested in talking about school. At all. What he said still makes me cringe.
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#14re: Phoney phone calls
Posted: 11/6/05 at 5:24pmthis woman always calls my cell asking for "Mohammed". i used to say "wrong number" and hang up, but now i throw in a cheesey accent and play Mohammed. i thought it would be pretty obvious that i'm not who she's looking for because of my voice, but i guess not. maybe Mohammed has a girly voice!
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