and it's not for you? Even though you say your name(s) clearly on the machine? "Hi Bueferd, we were wondering why you didn't come in to work today..." The funiest one I got happened about 4 years ago. This is all the guy said.

"Bitch-bitch-bitch, make me rich, you know who this is, call me back."



Or how about a series of beeps? What the hell is that? Not a fax beep or a busy signal beep either. Weird, like if you were counting the seconds 1-2-3-4 and on every 1 there was a beep. I've had this happen a few times and I wonder if aliens are trying to communicate with me.

VinaBlue said:

You called him back, right?

I got one from some guy in upstate New York thanking me for letting him and his girlfriend use my cabin on the lake, they really enjoyed themselves and if I ever needed a favor in return, to let him know....and, yes, my voicemail message has my name on it and everthang...

Got another one once from a woman in Texas who called asking if I'd need to be picked up at the airport when I arrived and saying she couldn't wait to see me...and, yes, my voicemail message has my name on it....

LittlePill said:

Byron said:

Yeah, important messages like that make me feel responsible. If they leave their number, I call back and let them know they called the wrong person.

As for the cabin on the lake... When can I stay there?

i got a text message by accident from a guy who was sorting out travel arrangments with his friend. i politely texted back saying he had the wrong number. he thought iwas kiddung..this went on a bit till he eventullay realised.

a week or so later he texts me to thank me.

and everynow and then i get a text message from someone who i think is this guy just saying "hi" and how he want to meet him(i can never rember the number to be sure)...frigging text stalker....i have not encouraged him in any way.

it freaks me out
the person is bored and slightly desperate.


anyway...back to the subject.....

msserendipity said:

Oh, wow...I got a text message the other morning that only said "Im in car"...and I had NO idea who sent it. I didn't recognize the phone number at all...I texted them back and said "Who are you?", but they didn't respond...



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msserendipity said:

You should write it down and keep a record of it.

I once got a message from a woman calling me to tell me she was in a hospital after having gotten her throat slit! She sounded like Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget. I'm not sure if it was a serious, misplaced phonecall or just somebody cranking me.

Anyway, it was horrible, but so maccabre that my wife and I could only laugh to break the tension.

Lammastide said:

Never happened to me. Are the phone lines crap in America or something?

daned said:

No, people are just stupid or high and they leave messages on the wrong machines.

VinaBlue said:

Is that a yes?

The coolest ever -- my roommate and I once had a message that said, "Hi Cassy, this is Gene Simmons. You can fax that to me at 310-555-5555." It definitely sounded like THE Gene Simmons. We saved it until a power outage zapped the message. And no, he didn't say 555-5555. It was a really number.

And then at work a couple of months ago, our general mailbox had a message in a foreign language that no one recognized. It was a woman who was very angry. After saying whatever in was in the other language, she said, "Leave my daughter alone, you white piece of shit mutherfucker. I know you're not white, but you act like you're white, you motherfucker. Leave my daughter alone or I'll kill you." Then then was more talk in the other language. Very bizarre, and kinda scary. She sounded very desperate. Like Lammastide, we didn't know what to do other than laugh. I saved that one too, for a long time, and just accidentally erased it last week.

Sonia! I want to talk to you

Next day:

Sonia? Are you there? I need to tell you something important. Where are you?

Next day:

Hi, I'm Sonia. Anybody called me on the phone?

madartista said:

Wow, that's cool!

You should have faxed him something!

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madartista said:

THE Gene Simmons from the rock group Kiss? OMG!

VinaBlue said:

I know -- we talked about it. Too bad I didn't have a KISS Army ID card!

From my best friend's livejournal... true story...

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DIAL 1-800-C-O-L-L-USION OF THE CRAZIES...
the following is an actual message left on the machine at my current residence in regards to an ad my roommates placed on the internet in search of a tenant to occupy an empty room. this is, of course, prior to my move-in, since i was the one chosen to fill the position. please keep in mind i live with four other students, all around the age of twenty, while reading the following excerpt:

monday, 5:56 pm
[an older woman's voice] "Uh...yes, hi, my name is Arnetta Kanardi, and I was calling about the room that you have for rent. Um, if you could just give me a call back; I know that it didn't list anything about, um, you know, special attributes that, um, a roommate might have. But just so you guys know I'm extra clean...and like i said, my name is Arnetta Kanardi and I can also harness lightning and this is really good for starting the grill, and maybe for, you know...[the machine cuts off]"

immediately preceding the previous message:

tuesday, 5:06 pm
"Hi, yes, I'm calling for Arnetta Kanardi. This is Suzie Kitchen and I'm calling from Mental Transitional Health and I'm just calling to verify that this is her address. Um, if she could please give us a call back at 595-8431 just to verify that she has moved into this new residence I'd really appreciate it. Thank you, have a good day. Buh-bye."

i have sat and contemplated this for approximately five and a half hours now. before i transferred the message into written form i made sure to check the validity of the caller with my roommates, making for certain this was not one of their highly clever friends calling and leaving obscure phone calls while under-the-influence.
i have called Mental Transitional Health and verified with Ms. Kitchen than indeed a miss Arnetta Kanardi listed our home as her new residence upon leaving the clinic.
i'm not sure what is more disturbing, the fact that a woman has been given the sur-name of "kitchen" or that Arnetta may be frequenting our neighborhood in hopes moving in. either way, that lightning thing sounds like a really fucking awesome trick.

Byron said:

Remember when that weird telemarketer called you and you thought it was me?

Natsume said:

oh my stars!!!!

too funny..hey, have you listened to my radioshow yet? ya lil boob!!

VinaBlue said:

i dont have an answering machine...but how ya doing sweets?

I used to receive messages for someone whose name I couldn't possibly even pronounce reminding him (or her?) of his (or her?) dental appointments. I get them every 6 months or so. In fact, I'm probably due for another message any time now. And yes, my name is clearly stated on my voicemail.

It's happened to me once or twice... nothing special though or funny in the ones that I've received.

I've left messages on the wrong voicemail on accident, but it just gave their number instead of a name and I don't usually pay attention to the number announcement.

I had one lady call me and leave me a voicemail bitching me out for calling her husband and demanded to know who I was. I called her back and explained that I wasn't calling and saying those things to her husband, but was calling a friend instead... ended up, I was a number off in dialing and after much talking, she finally believed me and was relieved (I don't think she was too secure in her relationship with him).


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AzureStarr said:

What the heck do you say to your friends??...

Byron said:

Nothing like what you're thinking! It was innocent... seriously.

VinaBlue said:

I've gotten the beeps call too, once at 12:30 at night and it woke me up. I also thought aliens were trying to communicate with me.

RaspberryWoman said:

Thank GOD I'm not the only one. I was beginning to wonder... What do you think it is? My boyfriend thinks it might have something to do with cell phones. Yeah, I've gotten them at all hours of the day and night. Too weird.