The phone rang yesterday afternoon,"Rosemary?" said the voice on the other end.
"Nope. No Rosemary here." I said.
"Rosemary?"
"No. There is no Rosemary here, ma'am." I try again.
"Is this 555-1212?"
"Yep."
"Rosemary?"
Ugh. "No. You have the wrong number. Are you dialing area code 111?"
"Yep. 111-555-1212. Is Rosemary there?" asks my determined friend.
"Yep, that's my number, but there is no Rosemary here." I try to convince her.
"Are you sure?"
Sigh. "Yes."
"Oh."
No Rosemary, but I give her points for persistence.
24 comments:
I think you goose's name is Rosemary. She looks like a Rosemary to me.
I used to have that happen all the time. My number was one off from a hair salon at a retirement village. The main stylist was named Jan which is very similar to Jen. If I felt cheeky I would take their appointment:)
There seem to be more and more of these people who cannot believe I'm not Rosemary, because it is impossible that they may have erred. sheeeesh.
Ek...I hate those. It's like they think you're the one who's crazy and playing some prank on them. Um...excuse me, but you could have it wrong too! Sheesh.
After the second "Are you sure?" I would say "Well there used to be a Rosemary here, but she ran off with the saxaphone player." Always worked for me.
Anita's Mom
Was Thyme there? Was Saffron? How about Tumeric?
Oh no?! Was it Rosemary's baby calling?!
The comments are really amusing today - love the photo!
Hahaha! I do not know Rosemary either. Who is she? :)
Loving these comments!!
I had a lady call once and asked for some guy. When I told her she had the wrong number she went off on me and demanded to speak to him. I told her she was a freak and hung up on her. Geez...amazing how people can't admit when they've dialed a wrong number.
We get wrong numbers ALL. THE. TIME. Our landline, our cell phones.... weird thing is, sometimes the person does indeed have the correct number! Drives me buggy. I tell ya, maybe people give out fake telephone numbers to others, just to elude them?
It was getting so bad with our landline that I have the number changed. And then changed it again. Because 99% of the calls were either wrong numbers, solicitors, or calls for an auto parts store (whose number was similar).
Did she really think you might realize you'd been wrong and say she was there? LOL
I enjoyed your telling of the story and also the comments above. I'm too dang tired to add anything witty though. :)
Forgot to say great photo of Hobbes today and of Grace yesterday!
I'm with Sharla, funny story, funny comments but i'm too tired to be witty also...lol
I think I would have just gave in and said ok yes, this is rosemary
My mother had a stranger wrong call about two years ago. It went thusly"
man...."Where's my cows?"
mom...."Huh?"
man..."Where's my cows!
mom..."I think you have a wrong number. We don't have any cows."
click...
ring, ring, ring...
mom...."hel..."
man..."You picked my cows up with your trucks. Where's my cows?"
mom...."oh my, we don't have any trucks.."by now mom has figured out some trucker with cows has given this guy our phone number..
mom...."I think the trucker gave you our number by mistake."
click...
ring... ring...
Mom didn't pick up...
So what will you do tomorrow when the phone rings and it is Rosemary. She asks if there are any messages for her. What will you say?
Highway--I'm thinking she looks like garage sale fodder to me. ;)
Jennifer--Oh, you are BAD! We used to get calls "Hidden Assets"--a place that rented "dancers". Yeah, wedding season was just swell with all the midnight drunken calls for girls. I used to tell them they went out of business.
Vanilla--I almost went along with her at one point.
Nancy--The world is crazy, isn't it?
Anita's Mom--Hahaha! I like that one. :)
Betty--Hahaha! Oh, you guys are so witty today!
Pricilla--EEEK!
Grace--Everyone is on a roll today!
June Zach--Neither do I!!!
Jen--Hahaha! People are so weird.
Rebecca--Lately I've been getting calls on my cell from bill collectors for "Chester". They will NOT believe there is nobody here by that name. I've tried everything. I finally had to tell them that they have the wrong number and this was harassment--and that I would have to report it to the police. Miraculously, the calls have stopped.
Violet--No kidding!! I don't know what she expected.
Beaded Tail--No kidding. The pallies were on a roll today!
Ann--Me too. I can't keep up with the pallies today--they are too funny!
Ozark Mtn Cats--OMG! Now that is the funniest wrong number I've ever heard!! Cows!!! Hee! Hee!
Chuck--I'm gonna hang up on her! Darn Rosemary. :)
That IS persistence!
We haven't received many calls like that, but we are still regularly getting mail for a person who hasn't lived at this address for over six years! We have long since given up on trying to get in contact with the ones sending them. For we would invariably receive another one piece of mail within a week of informing a credit card company, collection agency, etc., etc. that they didn't live here anymore.
LOL ~ too funny! We used to have some old lady (at least she always sounded old) phoning our house for her sister Helen. At least every 2nd day. One day she just quit calling. I'm not sure if she or Helen passed away but the calls stopped!
People just never give up when they have a wrong number. And it turns into an interrogation. My cell phone used to get all sorts of crazy wrong numbers and the people were just assholes. Jerks.
Storm--Yeah, she was so convinced I didn't know who lived here. Hahaha!
Fish--I've lived in this house for 21 years and I STILL get mail for the previous owners. It's all garbage though--no collection notices, thank goodness!
Catherine--Oh no! Don't you wonder what happened??
Casey--Yeah, I get that with my cell phone too! What is with that???!
Shyt! If she calls again...have some fun. Ask her to hold on a minute while you get her, then change your voice and answer as Rosemary. Maybe she'll figure it out finally!
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