Wrong Numbers? (cell phone, to live, area code, name)
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The days of getting called and having people dial the wrong number seems limited anymore. I have the same telephone number for 30 years old and only a few wrong numbers years ago. I don’t get called with “sorry wrong number” nor do I seem to dial the wrong number when I’m calling. So what is it, am I the only one or are there others who seem to have fewer wrong number phone calls?
Years ago it was always happening when the phone would ring at home and callers simply dialed the wrong number.
I think most of us have numbers programed into our phones......thus less chance of misdialing the number. I can't recall the last time I've gotten the wrong number when I've called out. My home phone number is similar to a couple of local businesses and I get wrong number calls quite often.
Back before we eliminated our land line we got frequent wrong number calls.
One woman just couldn't quite understand that her boyfriend's number wasn't the one she kept dialing. After the 15th or so call I was getting really annoyed.
She called again so I told her that "Leroy" was on a date and not expected back until the next day but I would be happy to take a message.
True story: Many years ago, when I lived in D.C., I was busy painting my apartment and with two little kids underfoot, it was quite a task. One afternoon, while I was up on the ladder, the phone rang and it was a wrong number. I told the woman on the other end and she said she was sorry. I climbed back up the ladder and the phone rang again. Same lady, same conversation. "Wrong number." "Sorry." Hang up and back up the ladder. When the phone rang for the third time I was more than a little annoyed. I answered the call with "You have the wrong number" and the coo-coo on the other end said to me, (I swear!) "Well, stop answering, I'm running out of dimes!"
Most cases, it's a number that was written down, and sometimes that 7 looks more like a 1, vice versa, or the wrong area code. Wrong numbers happen alot less now with programmed numbers, business cards and older phone numbers. (It's much less likely your new phone number was somebody's old number.) Also take into account that social networking sites can take some of the guess work out of calling numbers these days.
I think phones with a visual display of what number you enter to calling helps as well the programmed list of name & numbers to reduce the errors in calling others.
And a big help is very very few rotary dial phones anymore. I think those added to a lot of miss-dialed numbers.
We get wrong numbers all the time. Several years ago I found a whole series of messages on my cell phone from someone I didn't know. If I recall correctly, they were trying to contact someone from an airport. I felt bad, so I called the number back and left a message that they've been dialing the wrong number.
When we used to have a party line ( showing my age, now ) we would constantly pick up on the wrong ring.
This is totally off topic, but one of the parties on our line was my Sunday School teacher. I used to take perverse glee in listening in on her gossip and conversations.
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