You allways worry when the phone start's to ring in the middle of the night, After racing down the stairs naked in the dark and stubbing my toe to get to the phone last night when it rang at early o clock (only to find it was some crettin with the wrong number). got me to wondering as I tryed to get back to sleep what sort of oddness other people have encounterd when answering phonecalls at odd hour's.
So who has the weirdest phone related story to tell?

After racing down the stairs naked in the dark and stubbing my toe to get to the phone

:hihi: :hihi:

I got nothing that can top that, I have sometimes answered the remote when drunk shouting hello only for the phone to continue ringing with me wondering why the pickup button ain't working..

You allways worry when the phone start's to ring in the middle of the night, After racing down the stairs naked in the dark and stubbing my toe to get to the phone last night when it rang at early o clock (only to find it was some crettin with the wrong number). got me to wondering as I tryed to get back to sleep what sort of oddness other people have encounterd when answering phonecalls at odd hour's.
So who has the weirdest phone related story to tell?

It's probably one of your neighbours watching you run around your house naked :o

It's probably one of your neighbours watching you run around your house naked :o

I'm just wondering what if one her kids had seen mommy running round starkers :hihi:

We always used to, and still do to a lesser extent than before, get phone calls asking for Going Places, the Holiday company... Just because our number is similar give or take a digit :loopy:

We often answer the phone thinking its one of our friends(when its really a wrong number) and say daft things like " Yes, this is the massage parlour & sex shop" to find a flustered person on the other end, who has dialled our number by mistake.We always apologise of course !!!!:gag:

At my old place of work we used to get a lot of calls for the council as our number was one digit different. We tried to explain that we weren't the council and could they please ring the correct number, most of the people were "old dears" so asked why we couldn't transfer them as they'd rung the council number :). It was a tad trying sometimes.

My mobile rang and somebody hung up (withheld number)

then my landline rang and somebody hung up (withheld number)


the following week, my dad answered his phone to me and said 'I'm glad you rang, I've lost your number' :suspect:

What's the betting his 'dancing partner' :suspect: thinks I'm another woman coz she's been reading his text messages? :roll:


Honey - get yourself a cordless :thumbsup: (also useful for dialling 999 from a safe location or vantage point ;) )

I got one today on my private phone while I was working. Private number calling so I just answered it...

Female caller: Hi do you get help with your prescriptions?

Me: No

Female caller: Ok thanks.

'click'

Very bizarre. If you're going to make a funny phone call at least try to make it funny rather than completely pointless. :roll:

I had one a couple of weeks back.

Way past 2 in the morning of a Saturday, just settling down, when my phone goes, (*panic*) withheld number but decided to answer it, foreign guy on the other end sounding like he's in a taxi rank, asks me if my Car's still for sale? eh! :huh: WTF!? :suspect:

Don't you have 'caller ID' ? thought every one did !

So who has the weirdest phone related story to tell?

I responded to a telephone call from a doctor at 4.30 in the morning, and drove to a Midlands town to meet the doctor and another man, a recently discharged psychiatric patient. The patient was agitated, and the doctor felt he should be readmitted. I rang the hospital, and they agreed to take him back.

The patient said he needed to ring his brother, even though it was 05.20am, as he'd be worried if he didn't know he'd gone back into hospital. So he dialled a number, and the conversation went like this......

"Hello. Is that the Central Police station? Good, I'm Mr {name given} and I live at {address given}. Oh my god! He's got a gun! Help! Come quickly!". The patient then slammed the phone down!

I asked what number he'd rung, and indeed it was the number for the police station. I told him I was not amused, and moved to ring the police back. The patient became threatening. I backed off. The doctor said he'd got his mobile phone in the car, and he would ring the police. I suggested to the patient, who was laughing, that he go upstairs and pack his case, which he did.

After a while, I looked out of the front door, but couldn't see the doctor. I shouted upstairs, but there was no reply. Worried, I rang the police station, and the conversation went like this.....

Me. "Hello. Have you received a phone call from a man saying he is Mr X of such-and-such an address and that someone had got a gun?"
Police Woman. "Yes. Who are you?"
Me. "Did you get another phone call from a man saying he was a doctor and everything was alright?"
Police Woman. "Yes. A man saying he was doctor rang and said there was nobody with a gun. Who are you?"
Me. "I'm a social worker. The man, who is a psychiatric patient, and the doctor, have both gone missing".
Police Woman. "Where are you ringing from?"
Me. "Inside the patient's house".
Police Woman. "Get out of the house now, and go somewhere safe. We're on our way".

I stepped outside the front door, and, looking down the street, saw the doctor and the patient walking towards the house from a nearby hotel. The doctor shouted out that everything was alright, as he'd just been with the patient who wanted some fags from the machine in the hotel foyer. I quickly stepped inside the house and rang the police again. But, this time, the conversation went like this.....

Me. "Hello. It's me again. The social worker. Everythings alright now. I've found the doctor and the patient. "
Police Woman. "Oh! So, "Everything's alright now" is it? Look here, whoever you say you are. I've had one call from a man saying someone has a gun at this address and he needs help quickly. I send a panda car. Then another man rings. He tells me he's a doctor and there's nobody with a gun. So I cancel the panda car. Then a third man rings, you, and you tell me you're a social worker and that both the man and the doctor are missing. I send a panda car again. Now you ring and tell me "Everything's alright now", as you've found the man and the doctor. Well, let me tell you that before anyone else rings saying someone's got a gun or they haven't got a gun, or that they're a doctor or a social worker, or that the doctor and a mental patient are missing or that they are found, or before some other man rings to tell me the social worker is now missing......the panda car is on it's way to find out what hell is going off at this address and...... don't anyone ring me again!" :hihi:

Don't you have 'caller ID' ? thought every one did !

If the person calls from a private number or withholds their number, then 'caller ID' doesn't work.

There has to be a number for Caller ID to function, i do believe!?

I responded to a telephone call from a doctor at 4.30 in the morning, and drove to a Midlands town to meet the doctor and another man, a recently discharged psychiatric patient. The patient was agitated, and the doctor felt he should be readmitted. I rang the hospital, and they agreed to take him back.

The patient said he needed to ring his brother, even though it was 05.20am, as he'd be worried if he didn't know he'd gone back into hospital. So he dialled a number, and the conversation went like this......

"Hello. Is that the Central Police station? Good, I'm Mr {name given} and I live at {address given}. Oh my god! He's got a gun! Help! Come quickly!". The patient then slammed the phone down!

I asked what number he'd rung, and indeed it was the number for the police station. I told him I was not amused, and moved to ring the police back. The patient became threatening. I backed off. The doctor said he'd got his mobile phone in the car, and he would ring the police. I suggested to the patient, who was laughing, that he go upstairs and pack his case, which he did.

After a while, I looked out of the front door, but couldn't see the doctor. I shouted upstairs, but there was no reply. Worried, I rang the police station, and the conversation went like this.....

Me. "Hello. Have you received a phone call from a man saying he is Mr X of such-and-such an address and that someone had got a gun?"
Police Woman. "Yes. Who are you?"
Me. "Did you get another phone call from a man saying he was a doctor and everything was alright?"
Police Woman. "Yes. A man saying he was doctor rang and said there was nobody with a gun. Who are you?"
Me. "I'm a social worker. The man, who is a psychiatric patient, and the doctor, have both gone missing".
Police Woman. "Where are you ringing from?"
Me. "Inside the patient's house".
Police Woman. "Get out of the house now, and go somewhere safe. We're on our way".

I stepped outside the front door, and, looking down the street, saw the doctor and the patient walking towards the house from a nearby hotel. The doctor shouted out that everything was alright, as he'd just been with the patient who wanted some fags from the machine in the hotel foyer. I quickly stepped inside the house and rang the police again. But, this time, the conversation went like this.....

Me. "Hello. It's me again. The social worker. Everythings alright now. I've found the doctor and the patient. "
Police Woman. "Oh! So, "Everything's alright now" is it? Look here, whoever you say you are. I've had one call from a man saying someone has a gun at this address and he needs help quickly. I send a panda car. Then another man rings. He tells me he's a doctor and there's nobody with a gun. So I cancel the panda car. Then a third man rings, you, and you tell me you're a social worker and that both the man and the doctor are missing. I send a panda car again. Now you ring and tell me "Everything's alright now", as you've found the man and the doctor. Well, let me tell you that before anyone else rings saying someone's got a gun or they haven't got a gun, or that they're a doctor or a social worker, or that the doctor and a mental patient are missing or that they are found, or before some other man rings to tell me the social worker is now missing......the panda car is on it's way to find out what hell is going off at this address and...... don't anyone ring me again!" :hihi:

As they say - you couldn't make it up :D
Would make a great comedy sketch red, nominations for best actors I reckon - can I nominate Tony Hancock as one.....

I used to know someone whose phone number was the same as the Barclaycard authorisation number (except minus the dialling tone) who used to be woken regularly by people calling and quoting credit card numbers at them.

My number is a very slight variation on the number for Stradbroke School- I get at least a couple of calls a week from people calling the school, who always seem a bit embarrassed when I call them back to explain that the reason their call wasn't answered at the time was that they had dialled it wrong and that message they left was on my home machine.

I also had a spate of calls on my mobile earlier in the year from somewhere foreign, from someone who didn't appear to speak English (it sounded vaguely Arabic, but then I could be wrong on that), who called every few hours for a couple of weeks, and had the phone put down on them every few hours for a couple of weeks (I did try explaining the situation the first couple of times, but they showed no sign of understanding what I was saying so I wondered what the point of responding was).

I kept getting odd messages from an elderly lady. There was no number to call her back on as she was 'withheld'

I finally managed to answer one of her calls after about 4 months of this. She immediately realised she'd dialled the wrong number, and began apologising and was about to put the phone down, when I said - I'm glad you called. She was perplexed, so I explained :D

She'd managed to get her speed dial at home for her friend wrong, though it was correct on her mobile,hence her not realising she'd beenleaving messages on my phone :roll: I bet she thought her friend was going scatty - not remembering any of these messages :hihi:

That's quite funny Redrobbo. :hihi:

I had a quite embarassing one.
Just a couple of weeks ago, as soon as I picked up the phone. A txt msg came through.
"Hi, sorry I missed you two. Hope you are well, and sorry that I couldn't meet up. Hope you have a great life together. XXX Barney."
Ok...does not sound like someone I know.

I rang the number.
Me: "Hi, you just texted me. Sorry, I think you got the wrong number."
Barney: "Who is this ?"
Me: "Sorry, you just texted me, and I think you got the wrong person. You don't know me."
Barney "Oh right."
I put the phone down.
(This guy sounded pretty old, and there was background noise, he must be in a pub.)

Text: "What is your name?"
Me: (In disbelief that I'm being chatted up in some ways.)
"Is this how you chat up women ? Send them the wrong text msg ?!"
Text: "Sorry, I think you rang me. What did the msg say?"
Me: Sent the original txt back to him. Added "This is what you sent to me."
Text: "Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Barney by the way."

Now I thought, Barney ? That rings a bell...
A couple of months ago, I got a txt message on my mobile when I was abroad. It charged me, and I was annoyed with this already.

Something like this:
" Tara, something something miss you, shj lekn fooefvh xxxxx Barney"
(With lots of undecodable txtSpk)

Now, I know a Barney as a nickname of someone I know. Though, I'm not Tara. I thought it might've been my friend messing around. Can't ring back til I'm in the UK. So I left it.

Me: I forwarded his text too. Added "You also sent this to me when I was abroad. I thought it was my friend Barney."
TEXT: "LOL. Hey, my name is Barney !" (Durr. :hihi:)
Me: "Well, at least now I know who it was from. My name is X btw."
Text: "Oh, I am sorry. What SKL do you go to ?"
(Now, I'm thinking, "SKL" What is SKL ? ... )
Me: "SKL = School ? lol. How old are you anyway ?"
Text: "I'm 16. How old are you?" :wow: :shocked:
ME: "Old enough not to be able to decode TxTSpk. Well, it's nice chatting to you Barney. I have to go now." :blush: :blush: :blush:

Am I reading that wrong, or is that an old guy fishing for underage girls Bago? :shocked:

Long time ago had a number close to a suicide help line. After listening to a couple of these people unload their troubles at 2 am I got the number changed.

I'm just wondering what if one her kids had seen mommy running round starkers :hihi:
Naw tust me at that time in our house theres only me and the dead awake :hihi:

Am I reading that wrong, or is that an old guy fishing for underage girls Bago? :shocked:

Readin between the lines, that's what I got too. .

Am I reading that wrong, or is that an old guy fishing for underage girls Bago? :shocked:
No, no... I think it's a case of me feeling I'm cradle snatching ! :blush: :blush:
Should've known the guy is young with all the TxTsPk. :hihi:
I'm not old enough to be his mother, but just old enough to be his sister. :blush:

(I can't believe I was asked which school I go to ! lol....OMG, maybe I do sound young. :blush: :blush: )

But you said he sounded old when you phoned :confused:

Anybody can learn text speak ;)

But you said he sounded old when you phoned :confused:

Anybody can learn text speak ;)
Oops. :P
Maybe I should've said, "he sounded like a 20-something"...

We get the occasional phone call at about 4am, one such example:

"This is the BT text to landline service. You have a new message from <mobile number>: Hi granny! Thanks for my new mobile phone"...grrr...

Don't you have 'caller ID' ? thought every one did !


We do, but if the caller withholds their number, or the caller is phoning from inside a large firm or office, it jst says "number witheld" or "caller did not give their number" and there is ex directory of course.

I've had a few of these a lately, I had a lovely convsersation with an elderly lady the other night, she was looking for her grandaughter, ended up on the phone for about 15 minutes!

Got up the other morning and found a random voicemail from some woman called 'Mop'?????? she called herself Mop and was telling me about a letter she had and that she'd just come back from holiday etc etc etc, totally confused me at 6:30am !!!

My home number's almost the same as the pizza place round the corner, so I often find myself having to rustle up a quick Meat Feast then getting on my bike to deliver it at all hours of the day. It can be wearing at times, but it makes me a bit of cash and is a great way to meet people.

An odd one at work:

Me: Hello, Bank, how can I help?
Old Woman: Is that the coal board pensions office?
Me: No, it's the bank, I think you had the wrong number.
OW: What is your number?
Me: It's 0114 xxxxxxx
OW: That's what I dialed.
Me: Yes, but that's the number for the bank, not the coal board, I think you have the wrong number.
OW: But that's what it says on this form.
Me: Perhaps you could check with Directory Enquiries?
OW: I haven't got time. Anyway, I'm filling in this form to claim my husband's pension, and I want to know...
Me: I'm sorry, this isn't the Coal Board, I can't help you.
OW: Well I only want to know where to post it back to.
Me: Well I'm at the bank, so don't send it to me! Goodbye.
<Hung up>

A few moments later, my phone rang...
Me: Hello, Bank, how can I help?
Old Woman again: Oh, I don't want to speak to you.
Me: So why did you call my number?
OW: I want the coal board.
Me: Sorry, this is the bank, you have the wrong number.
OW: Can I speak to someone else please?
Me: Why? Everyone here works for the bank, we have nothing to do with the coal board.
<OW hung up>

A few minutes later, someone else rang, this time an old man. He wanted to know why I'd lied to his sister and told her we weren't the coal board when we obviously were. He told me I was being obstructive by not giving her the address to send her form to. I was tempted just to make up a random address to keep these strange people happy.

A completely random one which also happened at work, I got a call but when I announced the bank name and my name, the caller sounded suprised and said "oh. I've dialed the wrong number, I didn't want to speak to the bank, but did you go to Sheffield Uni?" It turned out the caller was someone who was on my course, who now lived in Newcastle and I hadn't seen or spoken to for 4 years. She didn't know I worked at that bank and had dialed the number by complete accident. It's a small world.

My mum got an odd one too...she was at home one day when the phone rang, it was someone from the local school trying to get hold of a relief dinner lady to go and work at short notice. For some reason, they had my mum's phone number on file instead of the person they were trying to contact.

After my mum had explained that she didn't know the dinner lady, the person on the end of the phone said..."We're really desperate to get someone to come in, we've got two people off sick. I don't suppose you're free at lunch time are you?"

Bizzarley, my mum accepted this job offer and has now been a dinner lady for nearly 20 years! :o

."We're really desperate to get someone to come in, we've got two people off sick. I don't suppose you're free at lunch time are you?"

That restores my faith in School Security :hihi:

Not that your mum is suspicious mind :D

That restores my faith in School Security :hihi:

Not that your mum is suspicious mind :D

t'was 20 years ago :rolleyes: