I was downstairs last night in the kitchen when the phone rang. It was a little after 9:00 p.m., and I was worried that it might be a family member in trouble (now I sound like a Wonder Pet). I answered the phone, but no one was there.
“Hello?” I said one more time, a little cautiously.
“Oh crap, I did it again” said the voice on the phone.
I laughed outloud, for the past two months almost every Sunday I receive the same phone call in the evening. It is this really nice lady who is trying to call her son, but she dials incorrectly and gets me. Our phone numbers are the same, but the area code is just one number different, it is too funny.
“O.k. you really have to forgive me, I’m so sorry that I’ve called you again, I am just so sorry” says the really nice lady.
“No problem” I say.
“Thanks for not chewing me out” she says.
We hang up, and I’m still giggling that she thanked me for not being mean to her. It is one of those funny mistakes, and now I have a new phone friend.
That was so sweet of you!! The people who had our number before us own a farm and business, we get calls all the time!! Twice I have received calls from an outhouse company informing me that it is time to have them come clean out our bathrooms!! I have even addressed it on the answering machine, but they still leave us a message for them! They are often older people and think we must know the couple. too funny!
Thanks Heather! That is too funny 😀 I can’t imagine an outhouse cleaning company calling to clean, too funny! I might take them up on it, I hate to clean the bathroom 🙂
We used to get calls for Tex and Rosemary, and once a lady called and yelled at me for not knowing who Tex and Rosemary were! Even though she incorrectly dialed their old number. She kept saying you have to know them, you have their phone number 😉 People can be so strange.