smallish rant....

[migirl]

someone calls and just says "Hey, Nugget?" when I answered the phone....so, I said 'What's up Biscut?'

OMG, I am laughing so hard at this right now!!!

Sorry about the PITA callers, that really sucks, but ... thanks for making me laugh today.

[Sheherezade]

Uh...Matt....

T...M...I!!!

I'm laughing at the "adult playdate"!! Can I set that up with new people I meet in my neighborhood, or is that a strictly in house thing?

I feel your pain -- we are one digit off of a Ford dealership. No, you can not speak to my service manager!

But none of the calls have been quite that inconvenient.

[SueC]

Yep, we have a phone problem as well. My fax number (which is on the same line as our regular phone line, it just comes in as a double ring) used to belong to a deadbeat who is wanted by just about every collection agency on the planet. By some strange coincidence, he is from the Philippines (so is my dh) and we were getting all kinds of international calls from his family over there who urgently needed to get ahold of him. If I were a better person I would have called them back, but unfortunately I am not.

I hate it when people call me on my cell phone even though I have told them it is for real emergencies only.

It infuriates me when someone calls during that just got the new phone period and insists that I am lying about so and so not living at this number anymore and that if they had moved I would know their new number. More infuriating is when they leave messages and I have already spoken to them. I know they must be collection agencies, but geeze.

Now I just give them the toll number for information as the number so and so left for them.

I had a cell phone number that was previouly used by a person with the same first name as me, and she was wanted by collection agencies. They called ALL the time. Towards the end, they started leaving messages telling me I had won cash prizes and should call back right away. I don't think they believed me when I told them I wasn't who they wanted.

I really hate it when I get a wrong number and the person calling says "Who is this??" because I don't sound like the person they intended to call. You called me, why should I tell you who I am??

I usually ask, well, who do you want me to be?

I've got a couple to add:

Wrong numbers who either just hang up or act like it's YOUR fault. How hard is it to say "oh - I'm sorry"?

This one is on behalf of my hair stylist, and I think it's a riot b/c I've said it 1,000 times:

People who come in and say "I need a style that is simple to do b/c I've got little kids and not a lot of time." She said "I've yet to meet a person who says ' I've got SO much time on my hands, please be sure to give me the trickiest style possible'"