My mother in law told me she had been trying to call us the other night, but never got through. She said the phone would just keep ringing which is strange because we have an answering machine. I just thought maybe she dialed the wrong number.
Then I noticed when I was on the phone I’d get a lot of static even when I wasn’t on a cordless phone. My phone would also ring once and that was it. Caller Id would say No Data or things like that.
Well lastnight as I was hanging up the cordless phone I had the urge to push the button and listen. Oddly enough there was someone on the line. Apparently my lines have gotten crossed with someone else’s, and I could hear their conversation hehehe.
Instead of hanging up the phone I just listened for a while. I feel sooo naughty heh. I called the phone company today and it will supposedly be fixed in the next few days. Take away all my fun 
Anyone else experienced this?
Maybe ten years ago, I was on the phone with a friend who was maybe two miles away from me. Mid-conversation, I heard a loud click, followed by a much different voice. Turns out my phone got crossed with the people upstairs, and I was talking to their friend in Texas. We traded "well that was weird"s and hung up. My friend simply got cut off.
For some reason I thought this thread would be about the Lambada.
Carry on.
A buddy of mine used to be very into CB radio. He had the big-ass antenna on his roof and all that. While tinkering one day, he found he could easily listen in on cordless phone conversations whenever he chose. We had many a night just sitting around, drinking beers and listening in on people.
We soon learned that if we keyed up the mike, the person who lived nearby could hear us, but the other person in the conversation could not. Started a lot of fights that way.
Ahhh, to be young and moronic again.
Before people get paranoid about their conversations, this was before the days of 900Mhz or 2.4Ghz cordless phones. Once people started buying 900Mhz, we could no longer listen in.
My friends parents had one of those police scanner radios. We used to listen to cordless conversations all the time.
It was often quite useful, too. They found out who was prank calling their neighbors, and that a friend of her sister’s was going to trash said sister’s bike after a fight they had.
This happenied to me soon after I first got a cordless phone. Let’s just say I overheard a very intriguing conversation. Then the woman asked, “Does Rover miss me?” and I realized “OMG I know these people.” I may not know all of my neighbors’ names, but I do remember their dogs.
My line got crossed with someone on the other side of town a few years back. This was especially bothersome because the woman was always on the phone. And the conversations were clear as day. It was like four people in the same room having two conversations. The worst part was that the woman would get mad at me for wanting to talk on my own damn phone! :smack: . She even got irate with the phone company rep when they called to fix the lines.
She did, however, have some rather interesting discussions with her significant others (yes, multiple). For awhile it was kind of like having my own personal soap opera that I could check into whenever I wanted by just picking up the phone. 
The last time this happened to me my line was crossed with a guy who had just come out of hospital. He was calling all his friends and relatives to tell them about his op. It was handy that he was talking for so long as he was still there for the operator to hear when I called for a repair.
Hey, Hal, you weren’t messing with a woman, were you? Might have been me, except I don’t remember our neighborhood CB enthusiast actually picking any fights.
And oddly, I could only pick him up on my corded phone, not my cordless. And just his side of the conversation, but he had some serious transmitters going on over there. It was a little surreal to be on a phone conversation and have trucker language break in.
Yeah I could hear this conversation even on the corded phone. I eventually had to turn off the ringer last night cuz the phone would just ring once loud enough to wake me up. Bah.
Too bad this couple I was listening to were boring. One was asleep while the other one just sat there listening to music and moaning. I think it was two women too. Or a really young couple. I don’t know.
Anyway, nothing fun to report. Perhaps they fixed my phone already? bah.
Well Jules, I do recally that some women were messed with, but I have my doubts we were picking up signals from 3,000 miles away. 
Assuming, of course, your current location is the same as it was 15 years ago.
When I was in High School, a girl I was friends with (Lori) had a problem with her phone where her number somehow got accidentally reassigned to some guy. So we decided to have a little fun with it.
We would call and ask for Lori and the guy would say that there was no Lori there, then we would apologize and hang up. We did this for an entire week at various times during the day. As the week progressed, the guy started getting more and more frustrated. We were having a blast.
At the end of the week, we had Lori call the guy and say, “Hi. This is Lori. Have there been any calls for me?” She then informed the guy of what had happened and it got all straightened out.
Just after my first child was born, I found that our baby monitor shared a frequency with one of our neighbors’ cordless phone. Fortunately, the baby monitor had an alternate channel available …