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08/20/2008 04:20:07 PM · #1 |
Originally posted by L2:
Originally posted by ryeguy031:
...there is no placed call to her in my phone however she has the incoming # in her phone... is this even possible? as for the message it was erased by accident but she swears it sounded like me.
not too sure what to make of this one... |
Sounds like a Skype trick; or a sleep-talker. :) |
It's called spoofing - it's not illegal, yet, you can go online and have someones phone number show on the caller ID. Right now someone is using my phone number to call people. When they answer it is a Hannah Montana recording, you arrange it from her website. I think the idea is your special daughter gets a special phone call from Hannah. I'll kill shoever has me listed there.
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08/20/2008 04:02:22 PM · #2 |
Two:
First--I was making hotel reservations and desk person told me that the specific room I was requesting (having stayed there many times previously) was no longer a non-smoking room. I was very surprised that the hotel had actually increased the number of smoking rooms, and said that I would have to find another option, but I was disappointed. She said, and I quote: "Well, you don't have to smoke in there..."
When I got there, I mentioned it as I checked in: it turned out the room was still non-smoking, and the person I had spoken with was "no longer with the company."
Second--A new take-out/delivery burrito joint opened in the area, and their phone number was one digit different than mine. For about a year, I would get called once a week by the same person wanting to place an order--I explained it to to them for a while, but finally caller-id saved the day as far as answering the calls (but they still continued to call). A couple years later I changed jobs, and when I was telling this story my new coworker looked kinda sheepish: "Oh... I think that was me..."
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08/20/2008 03:14:22 PM · #3 |
the phone rang and my wife answered it. she listened for a while and then started talking with them about family type things, mostly bad news and problems. I overheard something about divorce and children. I wasn't really paying attention. after about 20 minutes or so she hung up and i asked who she was talking to. She said it was a wrong number. a woman intended to call someone else but misdialed. She was upset about some things in her life and needed someone to talk to. Actually it's not uncommon for people to "unload" on my wife like this. She has some gift of calming people and reassuring them. it's just odd that it happened on the phone via wrong number.
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08/20/2008 05:15:05 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by crayon:
so you never did follow up to find out who the other Ken was, did you? |
Of course not - like I said, the consequences would have been catastrophic and none of us would be sitting here today. You don't mess with the fabric of spacetime. Well, I don't. ...a nice flannel can be fun though. |
i think you cant change what had already happened, and possibly, you are merely a consciousness that is re-living through what had already happened - it's like a tape of a movie about your life. you can play it over and over again, and jump between scenes, but you cant change the movie :) |
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08/20/2008 04:56:42 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by crayon:
so you never did follow up to find out who the other Ken was, did you? |
Of course not - like I said, the consequences would have been catastrophic and none of us would be sitting here today. You don't mess with the fabric of spacetime. Well, I don't. ...a nice flannel can be fun though.
Originally posted by crayon:
wish i could have a more interesting life like yours... |
Yeah, taking pictures of wooden dolls and myself in my little office studio all day and night is a life you can only dream about, crayon. :P Oh, you must mean my past life. Yeah, it was something. |
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08/20/2008 04:50:44 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by crayon:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
When I lived in California and first started dating my wife, Theresa, I got a call from a woman I did not know. She first said "Hi Ken" and since that is my name, I said hi and listened to her going on about somthing and I finally said "Do I know you??" She said "is this Ken?" "Yes..." "Ken Priest, right?" "uh......yes. Who is this?" She said her name and it did not sound familiar at all, but she knew my full name. She then said "You're going out with Theresa, right?" Now I am having a twilight zone moment trying to figure out how she knows me. I asked how she got my number and she said the phone book. It turns out, there was one other Kenneth B. Priest in the area and he happened to be dating a woman with the same name as the woman I was dating. What made matters worse for me is that I was pretty high when she called and the whole thing freaked me out. I would have thought I imagined the whole thing, but Theresa was right there while I was on the phone, so I have determined it was just a cross-connection to a parallel universe. I thought about calling her back and asking her to have the other Ken call me, but then I thought there might be catastrophic consequences to the space-time continuum. |
you're kidding right? |
No, not kidding. It was one of the weirdest things that I've experienced - and there have been a LOT! |
so you never did follow up to find out who the other Ken was, did you?
what a waste - it could be something out of that book called "the time traveller's wife"
wish i could have a more interesting life like yours... |
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08/20/2008 04:25:28 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by crayon:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
When I lived in California and first started dating my wife, Theresa, I got a call from a woman I did not know. She first said "Hi Ken" and since that is my name, I said hi and listened to her going on about somthing and I finally said "Do I know you??" She said "is this Ken?" "Yes..." "Ken Priest, right?" "uh......yes. Who is this?" She said her name and it did not sound familiar at all, but she knew my full name. She then said "You're going out with Theresa, right?" Now I am having a twilight zone moment trying to figure out how she knows me. I asked how she got my number and she said the phone book. It turns out, there was one other Kenneth B. Priest in the area and he happened to be dating a woman with the same name as the woman I was dating. What made matters worse for me is that I was pretty high when she called and the whole thing freaked me out. I would have thought I imagined the whole thing, but Theresa was right there while I was on the phone, so I have determined it was just a cross-connection to a parallel universe. I thought about calling her back and asking her to have the other Ken call me, but then I thought there might be catastrophic consequences to the space-time continuum. |
you're kidding right? |
No, not kidding. It was one of the weirdest things that I've experienced - and there have been a LOT! |
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08/20/2008 04:09:41 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
When I lived in California and first started dating my wife, Theresa, I got a call from a woman I did not know. She first said "Hi Ken" and since that is my name, I said hi and listened to her going on about somthing and I finally said "Do I know you??" She said "is this Ken?" "Yes..." "Ken Priest, right?" "uh......yes. Who is this?" She said her name and it did not sound familiar at all, but she knew my full name. She then said "You're going out with Theresa, right?" Now I am having a twilight zone moment trying to figure out how she knows me. I asked how she got my number and she said the phone book. It turns out, there was one other Kenneth B. Priest in the area and he happened to be dating a woman with the same name as the woman I was dating. What made matters worse for me is that I was pretty high when she called and the whole thing freaked me out. I would have thought I imagined the whole thing, but Theresa was right there while I was on the phone, so I have determined it was just a cross-connection to a parallel universe. I thought about calling her back and asking her to have the other Ken call me, but then I thought there might be catastrophic consequences to the space-time continuum. |
you're kidding right? |
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08/20/2008 03:12:18 AM · #9 |
Funny this thread popped up again today..... I got yet anther call looking for "mike". Man, If I knew what Mike was sellin' I might actually earn some money!
Originally posted by Ristyz:
I'm pretty sure my cell phone number used to belong to a small time drug dealer... probably meth. After 4 years the calls have slowed down to about 1 every other month. Used to be 8-12 a month. The callers always ask for one of 3 people, all men, all spanish names. I also know whomever it was is also in trouble with about 3 local small loan places. They finally quit calling after I called them each back about 3 times and told them to quit calling me. I'll keep the number, I like the prefix and it's hard to get, not to mention there are so many small time meth dealers around here if I got a new number I'd just have to start again in letting all their former clients know I'm not who they are looking for! |
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08/20/2008 02:33:48 AM · #10 |
I arrived at LA Airport on Sep 11, and tried calling a friend in the East coast, but he has a complicated number screening process which I don't understand (also, had a couple of numbers). So I called another friend who was in Ohio and had a chat with her for a while. After I hung up, the phone I had been using started ringing.
I picked it up and it was my East coast friend, who had been curious to find out who had been calling his fax number. So, we had a nice chat for awhile; it helps when you have a six hour wait at LAX (Sep. 11, 2000).
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08/20/2008 02:11:26 AM · #11 |
I cannot think of anything in particular for my own phone other than people from a local prison about 40 minutes away kept calling for Rodney. It seemed my number got posted on some board for Rodney. I finally convinced someone, I had this number for 4 years and never knew Rodney!
Otherwise, I used to get calls at work all the time of people reporting that Aliens (the kind from outer space) were calling their cell phone and the government was listening to their calls. They couldn't talk about it though because the Mob was going to kill them. I used to get some pretty far out there...I had to wonder just how HIGH they really were!
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08/20/2008 02:09:07 AM · #12 |
| I had a bad habit of misdialing my mom's number by the same digit for a few weeks. Every time I hit send I'd realize it right away and hang up thinking the call hadn't gone through. Well turns out it had because some girl's boyfriend called me back eventually and was real upset with me. Guess he though either she was cheating on him or else I was some stalker. To make it worse my boyfriend at the time answered the call because I recognized the number as my misdial and was too embarrassed to answer. It took awhile to straighten things out with the guy, and he didn't sound totally convinced by the time he got off. I'll bet that girl was real freaked out. After that I made sure to just go to the phonebook to call my mom. |
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08/20/2008 01:50:32 AM · #13 |
Some shady company kept calling my cell for "Mary Davidson"....eventually I got them to stop :) They had a recording of Mary Davidson saying her name, she sounded incredibly creepy........
Our old house number was a couple digits away from both a pizza king and a car repair shop, lol, great fun!
There was a message this morning that said "o sorry, I called the wrong number", lol.
Also, my boyfriend's roommate Ryan answers his cell sometimes, lol, once he managed to convince me that the cell had changed hands. Which was doubly funny, cause he was like "...no, I know nobody named Josh..." and I was like "oh come on Ryan, stop it and let me talk to Josh!" and he was like "Who's Ryan? My name is Justin..." It was completely aggravating.
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08/20/2008 01:33:47 AM · #14 |
| I once got a call from my girlfriend and after talking to her for about 30 minutes asking how school went ect. ect..... But she kept calling me "Peter" which was my nickname for awhile before I met her and when I asked her how she knew my nickname was peter... we figured out we actually didn't know each other... she had the same first name though! awkward... |
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08/20/2008 12:57:49 AM · #15 |
| I once had a number that had belonged to a haircut/beauty salon kinda place. People constantly called for the first five or six months trying to make an appointment. Normally, after the "hello?" from me, rather than "So and so's beauty salon", they'd ask "Is this.." to which I'd reply "No, they've changed their number - it's..." and I'd give them the new number. One day, though, this woman starts in on how she simply MUST have an appointment this afternoon - she had a very important appointment or something and could we please get her in? Never gave me a chance to even tell her it was a wrong number. So I just said "Sure, come on in now!" The actual location of the store had been closed for as long as I had the number, too. I'm hoping she at least knew to go to the new location. :-) |
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08/20/2008 12:47:18 AM · #16 |
Holy-old-thread-resurrection, Batman!
While I was shooting a concert recently, some number I didn't know KEPT calling me, over and over. I finally started to make my way to the back of the venue so I could answer and see what the emergency was, when I saw they had left a voicemail.
"[ long pause ] Uhhhhhh..... JIM! ... When you are....umm...going to the store... I need you to get some.... [ mumble mumble ]..... and sandwiches... yeah..."
Different voice in background: "[mumble mumble]"
"Yeah!.. Well, no.. I dunno. I've got his message machine.... Well, no, he didn't answer, but I've leaving him a message..."
Different voice again: "[mumble mumble]"
"On his machine!... He didn't answer.... Yeah, he'll get the sandwiches and everything."
"So, yeah, if you can get....ummm...yeah, the sandwiches and stu----"
[ my voicemail system cut him off for leaving too long a message ]
I went back into the pit and did not return the call. :P
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08/20/2008 12:34:30 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by karmat:
Originally posted by BeeCee:
One evening the phone rang while my dad was sitting next to it and I was nearby. I said, "It's for me" and caught it before the second ring. I knew, somehow, that it was my friend Jackie, though I had no reason to expect her to call that evening. When I finished my conversation and hung up I noticed a strange expression on my dad's face. He asked how I knew Jackie was on the phone when it hadn't rung yet....
(Jackie confirmed the next day that she hadn't heard it ring before I answered) |
When I lived at home (high school, college), before the days of caller ID, I could always tell when it was my boyfriend was calling, even though there wasn't a separate ring tone or anything like that. |
Me too. My girlfriend was the only one that called every 10 minutes..LOL : ) |
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08/20/2008 12:32:49 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
One evening the phone rang while my dad was sitting next to it and I was nearby. I said, "It's for me" and caught it before the second ring. I knew, somehow, that it was my friend Jackie, though I had no reason to expect her to call that evening. When I finished my conversation and hung up I noticed a strange expression on my dad's face. He asked how I knew Jackie was on the phone when it hadn't rung yet....
(Jackie confirmed the next day that she hadn't heard it ring before I answered) |
When I lived at home (high school, college), before the days of caller ID, I could always tell when it was my boyfriend was calling, even though there wasn't a separate ring tone or anything like that. |
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08/19/2008 11:54:36 PM · #19 |
I get a lot of calls for a guy named george. So much so that I saved the numbers the calls come from so i know not to answer. Now they leave messages and they are always things like:
"George, don't forget you have to work Saturday"
"George, you were suppose to be here an hour ago, are you coming in?"
George, I didn't get your final paper, if I don't get it you are going to fail."
Poor George... |
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08/19/2008 11:51:33 PM · #20 |
One evening the phone rang while my dad was sitting next to it and I was nearby. I said, "It's for me" and caught it before the second ring. I knew, somehow, that it was my friend Jackie, though I had no reason to expect her to call that evening. When I finished my conversation and hung up I noticed a strange expression on my dad's face. He asked how I knew Jackie was on the phone when it hadn't rung yet....
(Jackie confirmed the next day that she hadn't heard it ring before I answered)
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08/19/2008 11:41:27 PM · #21 |
call from the grave....
We where sitting for lunch and my ex boss...we'll call him "Mike" got a call on the job one day. When Mike looked at the number on the phone he went "WHITE" and I mean "WHITE". I have never in my life seen someone go so pale so fast. Mike VERY reluctantly pressed answer and put he phone to his ear...and very shakily said "Hell-ll-lo"...everyone was watching him now! After a couple seconds Mikes whole body shook and he dropped the phone and walked away from the group. After a minute he returned and said "That was "Tom"(call him Tom for the store)!!! Long pause....(you see Tom was in an accident about 3 weeks earlier and passed away)...then Mike said "and he (Tom) was laughing at me (with a VERY confused and frightened face)" we all just sat there kinda quite and then finished out the day. The next day we found out that Mike got another call that night. When he answered he yelled in to the phone "STOP CALLING ME!!!" the voice on the other end said "OH!...Mike!...Sorry! I dialed the wrong number".
You see Toms girlfriend had kept his phone and managed to call Mike from her purse. She must have been laughing with some friend when Mike picked up. It messed him up bad and I don't think he brought his phone to work for the next week. |
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08/19/2008 11:39:57 PM · #22 |
| I get calls on my work cell phone all the time. People immediately start telling me their order. "I would like 2 large thin crust, 1 with half peporoni, and half plain cheese..then another with.." |
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08/19/2008 11:31:59 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by ryeguy031:
...there is no placed call to her in my phone however she has the incoming # in her phone... is this even possible? as for the message it was erased by accident but she swears it sounded like me.
not too sure what to make of this one... |
Sounds like a Skype trick; or a sleep-talker. :) |
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08/19/2008 11:30:10 PM · #24 |
Apparently my number is very similar to a "Boomer's Tax Service". Around April the calls can get a bit funny.
But.. My exact number used to belong to JAMES & MARY MOORE. James & Mary, if you're out there... you apparently NEVER paid your bills. Four years now I have been telling people that this is my number now and no, I don't know James and Mary...the calls keep coming. Please, call your creditors and update your info, or just pay your bills.
Thank you!
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08/19/2008 11:28:00 PM · #25 |
| Ryeguy, sounds like spill-over from Art's alternate universe.... |
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