# Wrong number lady...30 min later STILL on the call. **URL:** \ **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:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/61 "2018-01-08T22:48:05Z")
I was on the dialing end of a wrong number worth mentioning. At the time, the principal of my high school had a last name that sounded much like one of the less inflammatory racial epithets for a person of African ancestry. His son and I were in a play together at the time, and I needed to speak to him. I called the number in the book trying to reach him, and got someone else. Assuming I had misdialed, I tried again with similar results. It seems that the number to the principal had been changed and re-issued to a redneck of the sort who goes through more white sheets than average, and they thought I was harassing them, and responded profanely. Things settled down when I explained who I was calling, using his full name and apologizing for the repeated calls. Directory assistance got me the right number. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/62 "2018-01-08T22:53:09Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Since I do plan to set foot in Thailand again, forgive me if I don’t answer that. 😉 Yeah, I’m told they get REALLY uptight about that sort of thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Woody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Mr.Woody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Woody)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/63 "2018-01-09T05:33:10Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > 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. I usually ask them to tell me more, please give me all the information. Then I set the phone down on the counter and go back to what I was doing. Eventually, I suppose, they hang up. I like your way better. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609/64 "2018-01-12T00:21:23Z")
When I was 16 and started driving on my own, my parents got me a cell phone. I kept turned off when I was at home or school, to conserve the battery. After a week or so, I saw that I had gotten a voice mail at some ungodly hour of the night. It started with, “Hey, TC, it’s JD,” and he was calling to ask about “the money” and asked for a call back, without leaving a number. Now, T and C are not my initials. In fact, I don’t have have a T anywhere in my name, so I assumed it was a wrong number. Then I got three similar calls over about a week and a half. I considered leaving the phone turned on, so I could answer it and tell “JD” that it was someone else’s number now, but a combination of fear and apathy kept me from it. About a week after the last call from “JD” I got another voicemail, but this one was from a nervous sounding woman. She said, “Hey, TC, it’s me. JD’s worried about the… collection. Please call me -or him- soon.” That was last one, so I assume the mob caught up with TC not long after. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > This is totally the tactic in US spam calls for the last couple of years now. Especially for mobiles, but landlines get it too. Heh, a few times I got spam calls that showed as being from my own phone number. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-number-lady-30-min-later-still-on-the-call/804609.md?page=3)