I kept saying ‘I’ve had this number for 15 years’ and he was like ‘No, that’s MY number’. He kept telling me the number he dialed, and it was my number. … I think he thought I was some unknown person camping out at his house or something.

Did he look like Robert Blake with his hair slicked back and white makeup on? “As a matter of fact, I’m there right now…”

at work at my old job when we got weird calls or anything when they started to argue I would hand the phone to a coworker ,who delighted in speaking hindi to the person on the other end….until they hung up in frustration…..;)

2fs, I’ve never had that “you called me” thing happen to me, that I can recall. That’s weird. Why are you a target for that? However, a couple of weeks ago someone called me as a wrong number and tried to convince me they had dialed the right number (which was obviously his home number). I kept saying “I’ve had this number for 15 years” and he was like “No, that’s MY number”. He kept telling me the number he dialed, and it was my number. We kept arguing about it until I finally figured out I was hearing him say a “0″ (”oh”) as “8″, and that was the digit he had misdialed. Sheesh. Really surreal. I think he thought I was some unknown person camping out at his house or something. At least he did finally apologize.

Sue, I oftentimes have to answer numbers/names I don’t recognize on the caller ID because it could be a work emergency. I especially get a lot of cell phone calls from people at work that doesn’t show their names – it will just say “wireless caller” or “denver, co”. I suppose I don’t have to answer cuz they can just leave a message or call my cell phone. Usually if there’s a name and I don’t recognize it, I don’t answer and they don’t leave a message. I think like 90% of those are charities in these days of the no-call list. Don’t get a lot of telemarketers any more, luckily.