If you call the wrong number - Do you hang up!!!

[riverrock]

Hello All,

When someone calls the wrong number, how hard is it to say "Sorry, called the wrong person"?

Instead, they just hang up the phone without saying a word!!! I haven't even got mid sentence telling him he's called the wrong number and he's slammed the receiver down!!!

Do you just hang up?

 

[bignate73]

nope.

"sorry, i have the wrong number."

 

[Mr. dB]

I apologize and bail as quickly as possible.

 

[silverfish]

Slam the phone down and run.

 

[Anthony Roberts]

I've had a couple of wrong numbers (same person) in a row, and since my town is so small, I can usually ask them who they are looking for, and tell them (if not the person's number) how to get in touch with the person.

When I first moved here, there was only one 3 digit prefix, i.e. (201)-XXX-whatever
...the area code and first 3 numbers in this town were all identical (9999 phone numbers total) until a few years ago. When you used to meet people from my town, in town, and you asked for a phone number, they just said the last 4 digits.

 

[heatherrae]

I've had a couple of wrong numbers (same person) in a row, and since my town is so small, I can usually ask them who they are looking for, and tell them (if not the person's number) how to get in touch with the person.

When I first moved here, there was only one 3 digit prefix, i.e. (201)-XXX-whatever
...the area code and first 3 numbers in this town were all identical (9999 phone numbers total) until a few years ago. When you used to meet people from my town, in town, and you asked for a phone number, they just said the last 4 digits.

I lived in a town like that. You just gave your last 4 digits.

I usually say, "Sorry I dialed the wrong number." However, once I said that, and a lady on the other end went off saying that I called there all the time to harass her and she knew I was sleeping with her husband...yada yada yada. I hung up on her and she called me for weeks on end. What a nutso!

 

[MrMuscle]

I start breathing heavy, slapping my hand on my thigh and go "so *pant* what are you wearing?"

ofcourse this is how i always talk on the phone.

 

[heatherrae]

LOL...want my number? JUST KIDDING. =-)

 

[MrMuscle]

LOL...want my number? JUST KIDDING. =-)

yeah right, like you are kidding.

im on to you you know. no need to hide it anymore.

 

[rnch]

Slam the phone down and run.

in years' past i would also do this; but with the popularity of caller ID the other person knows who u r.

i now agree with mr.dB...better to apologise & quickly bail out.

 

[stilleto]

i say i'm sorry, then get a tatoo commemorizing the occasion.

Usually its a cartoon character. as a symbol.

 

[heatherrae]

i say i'm sorry, then get a tatoo commemorizing the occasion.

Usually its a cartoon character. as a symbol.

"commemorizing" WTF? Been listening to Bush speeches again?

 

[stilleto]

"commemorizing" WTF? Been listening to Bush speeches again?

yes, now i mispronounce nuclear too.


NUCular

 

[GoldenDelicious]

i chatted for half an hour with a wrong number once

 

[dullboy]

dullboy hates when he dials the wrong # and always apologizes.


but not as much as he hates when he apologizes to the other party and they don't say a word and just slam the phone.

 

[stilleto]

dullboy hates when he dials the wrong # and always apologizes.


but not as much as he hates when he apologizes to the other party and they don't say a word and just slam the phone.

I would slam the phone down on you. because all you do is breathe heavy.

 

[heatherrae]

hehehe...I'm still distraught that you are female. I'm little and bitter. ;-)

 

[Sub-Zero]

i hate it when they call u and hang up, and u call back hoping its someone who got ur number off facebook and wants to be ur friend

then they are like "who the hell is this" and ur like, "uhh u just called me"

"no i didnt"

"yesuf ucking did"

that sucks.

for me i usually say sorry and then have them get pissed and slam the phone down, so sometimes i just say fuckit and hang up

 

[Mr. dB]

Anyone ever get a wrong-number fax? That keeps re-dialling every five minutes?

 

[redguru]

yes, now i mispronounce nuclear too.


NUCular

I never realized how common that mispronounciation is in the south. Must have to do with dialect. What foreign language has a problem with the KL sound?

 

[redguru]

As to the original question, it is a courtesy that should be applied to say, "Oops, sorry", or repeat the digits to verify you dialed correctly.