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Originally posted by Sadeyes21
On another note people often get my phone number confused with the rec center so I play around with them.
One guy wanted to set up a time to use the raquetball court. SO I set up a time, but I knew the rec center was closed then. If they call again I have some more fun ways to mess with them.
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Grrr!! For the longest time, we had people calling our house constantly and asking for "Horizon Technology". We'd politely tell them that they had the wrong number. The caller would sometimes be so insistant that they had the right number that they'd get all fussy on me.
My father called up the company's main number and spoke to someone about it. It turns out that one of their departments had a phone number that was identical to ours except that the last two numbers were reversed. The supervisor insisted that the mistake wasn't theirs and that somehow, all of these folks were accidentally dialing the right number incorrectly. I'm sorry, but there were just WAY too many people for it to be accidental. So, we started interviewing the callers to find out how they got our number. It turns out that someone at Horizon Technology had printed a typo on the phone list and had faxed out my family's phone number to their customers across the country.
Though we figured it out, the company refused to go back and change the mistake. So, for several more months we had to tell people over and over and over that they had a misprint on their sheet and to dial again reversing the 3 and the 0. Even so, so people were so rude. They swore that, because their fax had our number on it, that we must be lying. One day I got so fed up with this one lady asking for some woman at Horizon Technology. After arguing back and forth with her about whether or not she had called a family home, I finally said "Yeah sure, I'll go get Mrs. So-and-so for you" and put the phone down on the kitchen counter and walked away. I suppose she sat there for a few minutes listening to us prepare dinner before hanging up.
Eventually the calls stopped!!
.....Kelly
