# Wrong number lady...30 min later STILL on the call.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 16, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609 "2017-12-16T04:24:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/1 "2017-12-16T04:24:46Z")
So my mobile phone rings today with a number I don’t recognise, but as I’m not the paranoid type (like just about everyone else I see here or among my circle of acquaintances) I ANSWERED the call. 😃
And a lady asks, ‘Is this Amed…no, no, you’re obviously not an Amed’ and I laughed and replied, ‘Nup, I’m Kam…you must have the wrong number’.
‘Oh, so sorry, I betcha that bugger gave me the wrong number on purpose’.
And that was the start of a very long and convoluted conversation, that went from her trying to find Amed, ‘WHO IS A VERY NICE MAN’, me trying to give her instructions to look in the white pages (if she could locate his full name, which she had, somewhere in her BEIGE address book that she couldn’t actually find at the moment) to living in a trailer park and having weird neighbours who think she is spying on them, to how the person who gave her the wrong number ‘on purpose’ is dodgy and she thinks he’s trying to rip her off.
She sounded lucid enough, and didn’t seem to be totally nuts or off her meds, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt, but wondering now if this is her Saturday afternoon entertainment: ring a wrong number and see how long she can keep a sucker on the line?
😃
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/2 "2017-12-16T04:28:09Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> She sounded lucid enough, and didn’t seem to be totally nuts or off her meds, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt, but wondering now if this is her Saturday afternoon entertainment: \*\* ring a wrong number and see how long she can keep a sucker on the line? \*\*
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> 😃
My mom would have had _her_ begging to be let go. My mom loved to talk to people, friend or stranger, no matter.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/3 "2017-12-16T04:34:59Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> My mom would have had _her_ begging to be let go. My mom loved to talk to people, friend or stranger, no matter.
I did finally get her off by telling her the kids and the puppy were all yelping to go to the beach. It worked. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/4 "2017-12-16T04:45:22Z")
When I was around 24, I got a call very similar to that, asking for some guy’s name and wouldn’t believe he wasn’t there (or that I wasn’t him). I finally convinced her and she launched into a “poor me” spiel because he obviously gave her the wrong number on purpose (is there a name for that?)
So she kept me on the line, and I was too soft-hearted to push her away, and we ended up actually being friends for a while. And she was married, but her husband pretty much ignored her. Then I moved to another city, and that was that.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/5 "2017-12-16T04:55:03Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> When I was around 24, I got a call very similar to that, asking for some guy’s name and wouldn’t believe he wasn’t there (or that I wasn’t him). I finally convinced her and she launched into a “poor me” spiel because he obviously gave her the wrong number on purpose (is there a name for that?)
In my case today, someone else (Mister Dodgy) had given her Amed’s number (Amed is a nice man :D), but Amed’s number turned out to be mine. And I’m an Aussie sheila, so my voice bears no resemblance to an Amed’s anyway.
Hope she finds Amed to do some handyman work for her, and shunts Mister Dodgy to the kerb. Oh, except she has to park her car there now because the people next door keep stealing her parking spot in the trailer-park…😛
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/6 "2017-12-16T05:11:03Z")
Years ago, I noticed that the fancy new bus shelters downtown had a phone in them, so I wrote down the numbers and called up a few times. Seems to me there was at least one conversation that lasted more than 10 minutes, maybe two.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/7 "2017-12-16T05:28:02Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> Years ago, I noticed that the fancy new bus shelters downtown had a phone in them, so I wrote down the numbers and called up a few times. Seems to me there was at least one conversation that lasted more than 10 minutes, maybe two.
Um, I have to ask, why did you want to call the bus-shelter??
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/8 "2017-12-16T05:31:07Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> Um, I have to ask, why did you want to call the bus-shelter??
To ask whoever answered if the busses were running.
And if the person said yes, say “you’d better go catch them!”
It doesn’t work as well as asking about refrigerators running, but we live in different times.
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/9 "2017-12-16T05:31:32Z")
Jesus, hang the fuck up with a mumbled apology after two seconds.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/10 "2017-12-16T06:11:32Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> Jesus, hang the fuck up with a mumbled apology after two seconds.
Why would I do that? I’m an Aussie, and we don’t just hang up on people who randomly ring us. Also, it’s Sat arvo here, so I wasn’t pressed for time (except to take the kids and pup to the beach). And anyway, my life was enriched today by my random call from a random woman 2000km away in Queensland who was looking for Amed.
Sheesh…have a nice day **FoieGrasIsEvil**. 😃
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/11 "2017-12-16T06:25:45Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> Um, I have to ask, why did you want to call the bus-shelter??
I was a teenager. I was bored. It amused me.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/12 "2017-12-16T06:28:39Z")
I once had a phone number that had previously belonged to a Mr. James Moses, who had apparently dropped off the face of the earth without telling a lot of concerned friends in Louisiana what happened. The calls were so numerous and so tearful that eventually I talked to one of them, looked in the phone book etc. trying to find local information about him. Nothing.
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### Author:  [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/13 "2017-12-16T06:37:32Z")
I was walking down the street one day when I was 19, and a woman pulled over and asked me if I knew where a certain street was. I had never heard of it, and I said so, and somehow 30 seconds later she was asking me if I wanted a blowjob. I’m absolutely 100% serious. Obviously, in hindsight (no, I didn’t do it), that was her plan all along, and asking for directions was simply her _entrée_. My point, if I have one, is that yes, it sounds like she just wanted to talk, and Amed maybe (probably?) doesn’t exist.
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### Author:  [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/14 "2017-12-16T06:57:11Z")
I knew a kid who used to dial directory assistance in the wee hours of the morning just to chat. He actually got the same girl on several occasions and they struck up a sort of phone friendship.
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/15 "2017-12-16T13:08:35Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> When I was around 24, I got a call very similar to that, asking for some guy’s name and wouldn’t believe he wasn’t there (or that I wasn’t him).
My Dad’s business phone was one digit different from a pharmacy about 15 miles away. Some little old lady called for the pharmacy & when he said she dialed wrong insisted that _he_ answered wrong. :smack:
A couple of years later he was at a wedding & actually ended up sitting at the same table as the pharmacy owners.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/16 "2017-12-16T13:56:11Z")
My weirdest wrong number was in Spanish. I stumbled through my broken Spanish in return: “Uh, lo siento, uh, pienso que…no tiene usted el numero correcto.”
The response was a torrent of angry Spanish that I didn’t understand, except for the repetition of “El diablo.” I eventually hung up.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/17 "2017-12-16T14:09:09Z")
Way back when caller ID was a relatively new feature, I got a weekend 3 am call from a very drunk woman. I answered and told her she dialed the wrong number and she began berating me. I hung up on her and she redialed, laughing about how she was going to keep me up. I unplugged the phone, but wrote down the number.
A few weeks later I woke up on a weeknight to use the bathroom. On a whim, I called the number and woke the woman up. I explained who I was and said some nasty shit. I repeated this every week or two, anytime I happened to be awake at 3 am. On my fourth or fifth call she apologized for her original drunken call and asked me to stop. I did.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/18 "2017-12-16T14:10:09Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> …to living in a trailer park and having weird neighbours who think she is spying on them,…
How would she know that the neighbors think that unless she really is spying on them?
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/19 "2017-12-16T14:13:53Z")
I started screwing with people who call me for free estimates etc., seeing how long I can keep them on the phone.
I tell them no one will talk to me here, and they give me way too many shots. They don’t take me to the yard but once a week. They make me eat the food. The doctors are mean too.
I’m so glad you called to talk to me…
Hello, hello? Hello.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/20 "2017-12-16T14:21:43Z")
When I was a kid, we had a phone number one number different from some other family’s, so we got a lot of mis-dialed calls from people trying to reach them. One lady mis-dialed so often that she and Mom started talking and eventually wound up friends.
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