Did someone call me from this number?

October 13, 2005 ·

I’ve written before about how there are some phrases that bother me. I need to add one more because it was brought to another level today.

We all get the call at some time. It starts, “Hey, did someone call me from this number?”. To which my response is usually, “Did someone not answer on this number?.” I just don’t like how the person calling assumes that 1) I can tell who it is by their voice alone 2) I know every call that everyone makes in the house. Well, this was brought to another level today. I answered my phone and the conversation was as follows:

Caller- “Hi, who’s this?”
Me- “Excuse me?”
Caller-” I just saw this phone number written on the top of my car and I wanted to know why it was there.”
Me- “On top of your car?”
Caller- “Yeah, I am about to wash my car and this number was written in the dust so I wanted to know why.”
Me- “Well, you got me. Where do you think it happened?”
Caller- “I don’t know. I live in Spotlight, NV. It was probably while I was at work.”
Me- “Wow, sorry, can’t help you.”
Caller-” well, what’s your name. Maybe I’ll know it.”
Me- “Randy Constan”
Caller- “Oh, well that doesn’t sound familiar.”
Me- “Well, go wash that car.”

I really hope that he goes home and puts my “name” in Google. He’ll end up at Randy Constan’s homepage and be sorry that he made that ridiculous call in the first place.

Comments

3 Responses to “Did someone call me from this number?”

Richard Miller on October 13th, 2005 6:32 pm

Awesome job!!! It’s incredible that you had the presence of mine to remember Peter Pan’s website. That will be a kick in the pants for caller.
Alan Miller on October 13th, 2005 10:23 pm

This pet peeve ranks number one on my list of telephone peeves. “Did someone call me from this number” is most likely the most ridiculous question to ever travel the telephone networks, and the last thing I want to hear when I put the phone to my ear. If someone did call from my phone, and didn’t leave a message, it obviously wasn’t that important, was it? Maybe it was even a wrong number, and I caught myself. Who is so utterly pretentious that they think every call they get is urgent, and that every caller is hoping they will call back? Or that it’s okay to waste my time calling me to start up some small talk over the fact that neither of us know who the hell the other guy is, and that there was an obvious mistake somewhere. If I didn’t leave a message, and he doesn’t know my number, what makes him think I want to talk to him about it?

I hate that.
Anonymous on October 14th, 2005 9:37 pm

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