Having fun with wrong phone numbers (1 Viewer)

[grandgnu]

At our new office in Tampa, our phone # is one digit away from a Lowes store, so we get their calls all the time.
What I've started doing is asking people what department they want, then I say I'll transfer them. Then I "transfer" them to every department but the one they asked for, and I keep using different names and voices as I do it.

Just had a guy call looking for Receiving so I "transferred" him to John in Hardware, then Mike in Lumber, then Ethel in Layaway.
So far the record is someone being "transferred" five times.

 

[jbutler]

you would fit right in at comcast customer service.

 

[Chicken Rob]

I used to be one digit off from a pizza place in town. Sometimes I would take their orders and then call it in just slightly wrong.

Them: I'd like a large pepperoni/mushroom pizza

What they'd get:large pepperoni with half mushrooms half onions.

Sometimes I'd call it in correctly.

Sometimes I wouldn't call it in at all.

Sometimes I'd tell them they had the wrong number.

This was 28 years ago. I was more mischievous then.

 

[slisk250]

Best wrong number movie scene. Danny Devito telling the caller that "Debbie" couldn't come to the phone because his junk was in her mouth! Too funny.

 

[spikeithard]

 

[Steverino]

When I get a call on my cell from a restricted number I whisper "It's done, but there's blood everywhere" then hang up.

 

[Tommy]

When I lived in Philly the last 4 digits of the number that I had was the same. A cab company had the same last 4 digits too.

I had a lot of fun with people calling for cabs.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I am 1 number off of Farm Bureau insurance. I've often been tempted to tell them "Your policy doesn't cover that", but within the first few seconds I realize that they are old. Every time, old. They just call, give me whatever information they want to spew out (policy number, address, full name, social security number). I just feel sorry for them, because they may have been bright individuals at one time, and now they are just charging headlong into a scam. I plan to give up my land-line someday, but that will put this number into the hands of someone else that may have a more corrupt moral compass.

And I may become the old person.