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About three months ago I kept getting calls for a Betty person.  From medical taxis, medical supply places, hospitals, insurance companies, doctor's offices.  I kept telling them they had the wrong number.  These places kept calling and calling and calling anyway.  So I put about 10 numbers on my block list.  It was quiet for awhile.  Today I got 2 Betty calls.  *sigh*.  I told the woman what was going on from the health center.  She said yeah this is the number she keeps writing down and she even has a different number for her.  I said well when you talk to Betty can you please tell her to stop giving everyone my number!!!

 

My gosh...

 

 

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BTW - I feel your pain, Sparkly.  In my case our home number is one digit off from a doctor's office.  So we get doctor calls often.  The worst are when someone tries to fax the doctor's office something and I get the squealy fax sound in my ear or on the voicemail.  Those are not only annoying because of the sound but because the machine tries to call over and over again, trying to get the fax to go through.  

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Growing up our home number was one off of Radio Shack. One year there was a misprint in the phone book and we got calls almost daily for Radio Shack.

 

Most of the time we explained and gave them the right number.

 

Sometimes the caller would get huffy and it would get interesting.

 

Once my dad got frustrated with a caller who did not seem to understand or care that we were not Radio Shack. He took down all the guy's info, told him the item he needed was in stock, and told him to ask for the manager when he came to the store.

 

I sort of feel bad for the manager looking back..........

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Ugh! How annoying.

Have you had your number for long? I wonder if it used to actually belong to Betty and she has dementia or something and just doesn't remember. Very strange.

 

I've had it for about 6 years.  It does seem like she is screwing up her number.  Or maybe her handwriting isn't good.  I don't know.  I'm really hoping that lady tells her though.  Nobody else seemed interested in getting to the bottom of it.

 

I'm tempted to next time ask for the last name.  I'll say..."Oh which Betty, we have a couple of Bettys here."  So I can possibly call her myself to tell her!

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Growing up our home number was one off of Radio Shack. One year there was a misprint in the phone book and we got calls almost daily for Radio Shack.

 

Most of the time we explained and gave them the right number.

 

Sometimes the caller would get huffy and it would get interesting.

 

Once my dad got frustrated with a caller who did not seem to understand or care that we were not Radio Shack. He took down all the guy's info, told him the item he needed was in stock, and told him to ask for the manager when he came to the store.

 

I sort of feel bad for the manager looking back..........

My sister used to get calls for song requests. Her number was one digit off of a local radio station and there were only two ways a number could start in our city at that time (first three digits), so people would often choose the wrong one and get my sister. I'm sure I would have had fun promising people I'd play their dedications and asking them all kinds of nosy questions. Teehee.

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I used to have a Julie who would give my phone number to men she didn't want to see again but didn't want to decline giving her number to. I'd always get men saying "Hey Julie, I had such a great time and I'd love to see you again! Give me a call!"

 

At first I just said "Sorry, wrong number" but after it continued happening for some time I started saying "Gosh, I get phone calls from men looking for Julie all the time, but this isn't her number and it never has been." It stopped a few months later -- I'm guessing one of the men saw her again and was probably a little annoyed at being given a fake number instead of a brush-off. 

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I get calls from people who had our home phone before we did.  But we've lived here almost 8 years now and still getting calls like appointment confirmations from doctors.  Every now and then there is a personal call and the person is always surprised - I wonder how close that friendship is that 8 years can go by!

 

But the best was when we got an automated call from the school district at 6 am telling us school was closed for snow.  I called back and told the secretary to please take our number out of the system as we are not part of the school district.  She said the number couldn't be removed.  EVER.  I told her that was ridiculous and she needed to check with a supervisor.  She insisted and got a little snarky with me, but finally she put me on hold. Boy was she meek-sounding when she came back to tell me that the number would be removed that day.   

 

I mean really - could she have believed that once you're in the school district phone database, you can never get out of it? Talk about Hotel California.

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Whoever had our number before us must have been a manager at a mobile home park because we would get multiple calls a day asking us for the gate code! It went on for months. Finally I called the place and left a very annoyed message on their machine. It stopped shortly thereafter.

 

One guy that called was annoyed that I didn't have the code. I explained that I don't live there and a across town, he told me I should learn it.

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About three months ago I kept getting calls for a Betty person.  From medical taxis, medical supply places, hospitals, insurance companies, doctor's offices.  I kept telling them they had the wrong number.  These places kept calling and calling and calling anyway.  So I put about 10 numbers on my block list.  It was quiet for awhile.  Today I got 2 Betty calls.  *sigh*.  I told the woman what was going on from the health center.  She said yeah this is the number she keeps writing down and she even has a different number for her.  I said well when you talk to Betty can you please tell her to stop giving everyone my number!!!

 

My gosh...

 

I have a Betty, only his name is Antwain.  This has been going on for years.  First it was people inquiring about a car he was advertising in the paper.  Then his friends were calling me frantically at 2am to tell me "they got so-and-so!" and I can only imagine ...  Then for years it's been creditor calls.  I have told them all that I'm not Antwain and I don't know Antwain, and sometimes it stops for a while, but then it starts again.  Isn't there a law against that?  (I have threatened to report them before.)

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Our phone number is one digit off from the local town post office.  That was bad enough.  Then some senior citizen council put our a large print phone directory for the local seniors and they misprinted the post office phone number.  It was our number.  I would get these lovely elderly women calling to ask me the current price of stamps.  I finally just started telling them the price, it was just easier.

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I am starting to think that there might be people out there who have gotten random phone calls for me.  Our phone number changes so often that I've been known to accidentally give out old ones (or purposely, if the need is there).  Now I have to hope no one is going to start Facebook stalking me because of it.

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My Betty is Alicia Euells. She owes people money so I get robocalls from creditors who want her to call them. Once I called the number to tell them they have the wrong number and they argued with me that even if she doesn't live here now they were going to keep calling until I had her call them. Had this phone number for 20 years...never met anyone by this name. But boy if I ever run into her...I'm going to need bail money. 

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I had one in the form of a young man named Brian. His parents and grandparents left messages - "Call me!" for two years until I finally gave in, picked up the phone, and asked them to call all the rest of the family and tell them Brian changed his number.

"Well! You don't have to be so rude, we had no idea!"

 

Really, lady? You had no idea that my voicemail message in a woman's voice giving a female name wasn't your son Brian? You had no idea why he never, ever returned your calls? REALLY?

 

This raises so very many questions when you think about it - but at least they stopped calling me!

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