I hate Caller ID. Hate it with a passion. I pay money every month for a non-published phone number, yet because someone else pays more for CID they’re entitled to my number? Fuck that. Fuck people who think they’re entitled to know who’s calling before they call and fuck people who call people who want to keep their TN private assholes.
For people who “don’t like answering machines”: It’s 2004. Get over it.
And fuck people who call back random numbers they find on their caller ID, and fuck them especially hard if after the person they’re disturbing says “hello” the first words out of their mouths are “yeah, who’s this?”
I think CID has it’s place these days, but I just don’t understand many people’s(mostly older people), obsession with calling every number they don’t recognize on their boxes. It was a WRONG FUCKING NUMBER, deal with it. Don’t call me back and ask if I’ve called you because if I’m bitching about you, I DON’T KNOW YOU.
Sheesh. Reasons like these are why the telephone is outliving its usefulness.
Well, my situation is unusual, but I have called back strange numbers on my CID.
I am currently going through an ugly divorce and my 40-year-old soon to be ex-brother-in-law feels the need to get drunk and prank call me, occassionally leaving lovely messages, occassionally not. I have found that when I call back these numbers and the people realize what he is doing from their houses it stops for awhile until he gets a new drinking buddy. Yes, I am taking legal steps, but the call back is satisfying. Not saying this has any relation to what you had happen. Just my ordeal.
I’ve had my phone service cancelled completely. The phone is now stored in a bottom drawer. I have to listen to the phone ring at work. I don’t have to listen to it at home. Ahhh peace and quiet.
I do have a Tracfone which can be used in an emergency. 3 people have the number.
One of those “assholes” checking in here. I have Caller ID block because I end up making a lot of phone calls to clients from home, and I don’t want my clients to have my home phone number.
You wanna know who the real assholes are? The ones who have “private call block” on their phones. I have one such client, so I always end up calling her from my cell phone, wasting precious cell phone minutes for one thing. But this allows her to then have my cell-phone number on hand, and she began taking to calling me directly on my cell phone rather than going through the accepted protocol of leaving a message on my voice mail at work.
Yes, I do realize that it isn’t just the ‘private call block’ that makes her a jerk. I guess my point is, there are reasons why people have the services they do—including her, I suppose. :rolleyes:
I confess. I have called someone back on my Caller ID twice. First, someone called and left a message asking if I wanted to go to the Mets game…someone I didn’t know and I live in WA, so that would be tough even if I wanted to go to Shea. So I called him back and told him he had the wrong number. The 2nd time, it was an elderly woman who thought she was leaving a message for her doctor so that struck me as something important. Both times, I figured I’d be doing what I’d hope other people would do.
What cracks me up is when I get one of those calls “I found this number on my caller ID, did you try to call me?” “Who are you?” “Bob.” “Nope, don’t know any Bob’s.” “Is this 123 555 1234?” “Nope, wrong number. You must have misdialed.”
Her private call block should allow you to announce yourself; the call should then ring through and a recording will tell her you’re calling. Her block may not be working right or she has it somehow set up wrong. Might want to let her know next time you talk to her.
I have no quibble with private call block; keeps the telemarketers at bay.
I’d have to agree with the original poster on this one. I’ve had several conversations with people asking if/why I called on a misdialed number. I usally make it a point to not apologize when I explain it. Especially if I realize that I misdialed and hang up right away.
In one such occasion the person called me back while I was on the line with my originally intended person. Given the fact that the reason for my phone call was very important and of a personal nature, I became quite irritated with the “Caller-ID queer” who was rather confrontational about my misdial and was rather in-elgantly waiting for me to apologize. Not that I hung up on the person, more to the fact that my phone touched his phone.
Since I remembered the misdialed number, and that he was such an ass, I made it a point to dial his number and hang up from lots of places. Even paying a quarter to do it from a payphone now and then. A particular favorite experience was sneaking a quick phonecall/hangup while at a friend’s house during a get together. My friend has a reputation for being quite rude, on the best days…
I imagine that there is a special place in hell for me for that one… :rolleyes:
thaumaturge
Avabeth, maybe you’ve never heard of burglers who use their victims phones to assist in the robbery or maybe you’ve never lived in a home worth targeting.
It’s not too hard to match up a phone number with an address and burglers have been known to call a home at different times of the day to determine occupancy. Some actually call the house and let it ring during to the robbery so that they can “listen at the door” to hear the phone still ringing. A ringing phone tells them that there is no one at home to confront them. Burglers have a tendency to avoid confrontations that may involve firearms.
Save the bubble wrap for your little fantasy world world. It needs it more than my house.
Of course I have, but are you going to make sure you answer every single call that ever comes to your house? I’m sure there are times you’re really out and can’t get to the phone. What do you do in that case?
I happen to like bubble wrap. My cat bites into it and jumps - injects a little humor into my life;).
Blowero breaks up with girlfriend; forgets to take her number out of speed-dial list on phone. Blowero pushes wrong speed-dial button; hears ex-girlfriend answer; thinks “Oh, shit”; hangs up. Ex-girlfriend uses caller i.d. to call back. :smack:
Nope, my caller ID and answering machine tell me what I need to know. But if I see an unknown (local) number on my ID, I give them a call.
Why? I have teenage kids who listen to the phone messages (most of them are for my kids anyway). It could have been a call from another parent who may wisely decline the answering machine to give me news in person.
I’m glad your kitty likes bubble wrap. Mine goes nuts chasing the dot froma lazer pointer.
One of those summary statements is not in line with the description given by thaumaturge72. I bolded it and underlined it for you. I think it is at very least missing the word “rudely” and the phrase “and were rude to you even though your misdial was an honest mistake”. I’d suggest inserting the single word between “and” and “ask”. The phrase can be tacked on to the third line. Aside from that the summary is reasonably fair although one would probably need details on how frequently thaumaturge72 has dialed this person’s number from random places to determine if the term “harass” could be fairly applied.
