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Posted by Samarkand (Member # 8379) on :

I just got a crank call from someone claiming to be one of my friends and PREGNANT. She called crying and I asked who it was since it came up as a Restricted No., and then said a friend's name, and she said "yes".

I did figure it out eventually and my advice was good, general advice about options and talking to a religious somebody is she was religious, and me not being able to tell her what to do, and considering whether she'd had alcohol during the pregnancy so far, etc. etc. Maybe this random girl WAS pregnant? And needed someone to talk to? I don't know, weirdness. I have no idea whether she randomly dialed me, or somehow knows me, or knows someone who knows my number. Very sketched out right now.

Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :

I'd hate to think it was a crank call, but a wrong number. Weird.

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

I have a really stooopid question. Why are they called "crank calls"? For years I thought it was "prank calls" which just makes so much more sense to me.

What is a crank? Something you turn to move a motor? A person who is cranky? [Dont Know]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

A crank is also someone who is wrong in the head or "out there". So a crank call is a completely "out there" call; different from a "prank call".

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

So there are "prank calls" as well? And the difference is whether or not it was intended as a joke?

Man, I've gotten some "crank calls", then. Some people out there are a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

Was it a common name?

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

I wouldn't say necessarily a joke, bev, but at least to "have fun with" the person you're calling.

Whereas a crank call can be anything from someone who insists that, "no, YOU have the wrong number" (yup, gotten that one, he was really drunk) to the guy who had the wrong number for Budget Suites when our phone was one number off and kept calling back when I gave him the right number to ask me for it again (instead of writing it down [Wall Bash]

) at one in the morning! [Mad]

Posted by Samarkand (Member # 8379) on :

Definitely an uncommon name.

When I figured out that it was fishy (her voice stopped sounding like she was crying and started to have an accent, which my friend does not) I asked who it was and she quoted the unusual name I'd said when I was trying to figure out who was crying on my phone. Then she said she had to go when I asked her for more information that would have confirmed her identity. Definitely not my friend or anyone whose voice I recognize . . . weird.