Can I get in on this? I hate Budget Suites because we always get their calls. At 3 in the morning. And sometimes people don't even say "Sorry, wrong number."
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One of our phone numbers is apparently easily misdialed instead of an alarm company. That has resulted in some middle of the night calls.
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Once I called back someone who had called and awakened our 4 month old. He was apparently on the other line at that point, so I got voicemail, but I let him hear an earful about what I thought of people who called people by mistake at 2:30 in the morning, waited until they picked up, and then hung up without so much as an "I'm sorry, I have the wrong number." With the baby crying in the background.
The next time he did it (I recognized the name and number on our caller ID), he apologized.
I have also changed our voicemail message to say "If you are calling for Budget Suites of America, please hang up and dial..."
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KQ, we have the same problem. Our phone number is close to Qwest's external vmail phone number. Our phone number is close to Northwest Eye Clinic's phone number. Our phone number is close to Highland Community Health's phone number. The Qwest vmail and Highland numbers generate middle of the night misdials. Oh, and then there was the time that Highland actually did put our phone number (instead of their own) on one of the fliers. We got calls for weeks. It's kinda comical now.
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My old phone number was similar to Red Magic Carpet Cleaning Services' phone number. We'd get their calls all the time-we even figured out when they went out of business. They had a huge sale and then the calls just stopped coming. They didn't advertise on tv anymore, either.
Would it just be evil of me to cheer?
Southwestern Bell really is bad about assigning multiple numbers to businesses and home addresses around here, though. It happens all the time.
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In college a close friend of mine had a number that was one digit off from the local cab company's. As you might imagine, that got old fairly quickly.
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A bunch of people keep on calling for "Andrew." There is no Andrew here. Stop calling for Andrew! Posts: 3446 | Registered: Jul 2002
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Don't rob a bank! Or you'll end up like these people in this movie I just watched. That was just so sad... I hate my job, politics, politicians and bad television shows.
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I hate Charter cable. Not all of it, as the 24-hour phone service people have been nice and helpful, but the Athens office . . . they make me want to hit things with hammers. Particularly one lady's head.
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I hate lack of support, and people not caring. Even more I HATE people pretending to care, and abandoning me. iow I HATE people.
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Rav, you okay? You have my number, call me. Unfortunately, I'm at school right now and my phone is dead, but I'll be home later tonight.
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Yeah, this has nothing to do with what is currently going on, but still how I feel about January.
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Like I still feel kind of abandoned by my dad, and I remember lots of people 'acting' like they cared when my dad died, and things like that. I wish they would have just let me be other than 'try' to do the right thing, and let the people that could do the right thing just do it.
This is a skewed view on things that happend long ago that I still haven't dealt with completely (or know if I ever will) but is the basis for why I am skeptical of people and it generally takes me quite a while to build up trust with anyone.
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Rav, I do hope you are feeling better. I always went the route of not trusting people to begin with.
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When I was a kid, our phone number was the same (except for area code) as a nearby snowplow service. Or maybe I should say lack-of-service... we routinely got calls in the middle of the night after a heavy snow from angry clients wanting to know where the <bleep> the crews were 12 hours later. Don't remember what my parents did about it, only that the calls stopped VERY abruptly.
Now my ex-mother-in-law is apparently giving out my telephone number as a reference of some sort without my permission, as I have begun to get collection agencies calling here looking for her. I've had a couple rather nasty conversations with agents who refuse to take my number out of their records until I provide them with an alternate or who claim that I'm the MIL and I'm lying to them to avoid paying the bills.
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The phone number at my mom's was apparently only a couple digits off from a local pizza place. So that was fun.
The real problem, though, was our address. We had the same four-digit street address as two other places within a couple miles of us: the school district office and a water pump in the middle of a city park. We got a lot of mail forwarded to us a couple weeks late by the district office. If the pump ever got our mail, it must have kept it.
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quote:The phone number at my mom's was apparently only a couple digits off from a local pizza place. So that was fun.
Our number is one digit off that of a pizza place. We have told the pizza place this, and I think it helps get us better treatment when we eat there, because they know that if they piss us off, we could have lots of fun with customers who misdial. Posts: 1512 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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I still hate the American healthcare system.
I really need dental work but have no way to pay for it. I guess having healthy teeth is a luxury you deserve when you've "worked hard" enough to afford it.
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I hate that I can only focus on one thing at a time, which means I do very well in one area while the rest of life goes to pieces. When I move to work on the other things, what was previously going well falls apart.
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I hate that the phone number listed on my credit union's monthly statements takes me to the customer service line of a janitorial supply company. Operators there sure are understanding, though.
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I HATE my husband's job - the hours/days he works, the way he is treated, the way it makes him feel, the things he (and I) miss out on because of it, the stresses it has put on us as individuals and us as a couple....
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I hate realizing that during 2004, Uncle Sam enjoyed an interest-free loan of $6000 at my expense.
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