No, I am not a big beautiful woman (cell phone shenanigans)

Your daughter’s name is EVAL?

When I got my very first phone in my own name as a freshman in college, somehow or another BellTel got it cross-wired to a pay phone in a laundromat down the street. And there was apparently a guy running a book on that payphone. It took Ma Bell a couple of days to get it fixed and I amused myself greatly by answering the phone and taking his bets for him.

Fun with fones, indeed… :smiley:

Ooh.
We may need to move on to a different forum, darlin’.

Let’s try MPSIMS:
Mundane Pointless Stuffin’: I Must Stare.

Meet you there!

When my wife and I first got married, our land line # spelled “JAVA” and we were always getting calls from people trying to reach one of the local coffee houses.

I used to work with a guy who’s cell # was one off from SAFE RIDE. So he would frequently get calls from drunks at closing time looking for a free cab ride home.

My company has a VOIP service where calls sent to individual employees are forwarded to wherever they’re located at that point. Faxes may also be sent to that number, in which case they’re converted to a .tif file and forwarded via email.

Say my number is 201-555-1212. At least twice a year I would get faxes with medical information on them - as in, full-on HIPAA violation material. I finally twigged that there was a doctor or clinic with the fax number 202-555-1212 (or whatever - area code off by 1 digit). Nothing I could do about it, finally about 5 years back we moved to a different location and that number is someone else’s problem now.

Not a phone, but email: I owned a domain, say xyzzy.ORG. There was a small company xyzzy.ORG. Emails sent to anything at xyzzy.org, with no matching address, would get forwarded to me. So I got a LOT of messages intended for xyzzy.COM.

I tried to be nice, and would usually reply with a message along the lines of “I think you meant xyzzy.COM”. Which was fine, until the day where I got like 4 in a row, each copying the earlier one (and my reply), and finally a frustrated “Why do I keep GETTING THIS MESSAGE???” from the clueless recipient. Well duh, you dumbass, try READING THE MESSAGE and YOU"LL SEE. No, I didn’t respond. I think that was the one I forwarded to the admin at the .COM address, who was grateful.

I wish I’d added the commentary that “maybe you should reconsider doing business with this particular person, as s/he is clearly dumber than a box of rocks”.

Back to the phone: Typo Knig’s former employer had an 800 number - that happened to be one digit off of that used by Adam and Eve (yeah, the sex-toy company). That was funny from time to time. Not so funny was the day Rush Limbaugh was touting some fundraiser for some worthy cause (and whatever it was, it truly was a good cause, despite the spokesperson)… and gave their office number by mistake. Phones were ringing off the hook for several hours before the network posted the correct number.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who did this.