I hate when this happens

[LakeJay]

So New Year's Eve rolls around and I get a text from a phone number that I don't have in my "Contacts" list but does look familiar to me. It says "Happy New Year". So the next day I check my old phone and the contacts list there but no dice. I decide to reply back and say "Happy New Year to you too. Did you do anything fun?" I'm thinking I'll get some clues from the reply. So I finally get a reply yesterday and it goes something like this "Hi bro not so much. just sex a day. how about u?"

Well I now know this is not a girl and if it is, I am seeing her in a whole new light. Secondly this could be said by almost any one of my guy friends. How can I tell? The second sentence makes absolutely no sense. All my friends are idiots like me so this text would apply. I'm thinking I'll text back and mention who I was hanging out with. If they know who I am talking about or give any more clues that should help. Sorry stuff like this kills me...just thought I would share.

[WorkInProgress]

Could you actually call the number and either a)just casually say hey, I got your text, how's things or b)leave a message and hopefully that person has their name in the lead in? If you're superparanoid or really embarrassed, you could use a payphone or something, so that it can't be linked to you.

[blueyes]

Pffft - tell me about it. I got a decidedly drunken and possibly psychotic text (and then vmail) from an on-again, off-again female friend just after midnight.

The best is, though, that I got a text from one of my college friends, Big D, and replied to it - and he texted back 'who r u?'

Shit like that - you just gotta shake your head and laugh...

[cache]

I would have asked who it was right off the bat....now you have put yourself in the situation where it is assumed you know who you are talking to...

But there are a few people I know who bulk text...people that I talked to like once in my life, and every so often I'll get a text from them.

[LakeJay]

Could you actually call the number and either a)just casually say hey, I got your text, how's things or b)leave a message and hopefully that person has their name in the lead in? If you're superparanoid or really embarrassed, you could use a payphone or something, so that it can't be linked to you.

a) Too logical.
b) Once again, too logical.

I guess I'm just being difficult and trying to make it challenge to figure out who it is without actually talking to the person. It's one of those deals where you know the answer to something but you can't recall it so you want to figure out the answer without actually getting the answer fed to you. Yeah, you'd think I'd stop being an idiot in the New Year. No such luck:D

[mishl982]

Once I kept getting phone calls from a number I didn't know. I even tried calling the number back once from work and all I got was voicemail to a woman speaking Spanish.

Finally one day the person text messaged me, all in Spanish. Apparently she mixed up my number with her friend's and was wondering why I (aka her friend) was ignoring her, hehe.

[WorkInProgress]

a) Too logical.
b) Once again, too logical.

I guess I'm just being difficult and trying to make it challenge to figure out who it is without actually talking to the person. It's one of those deals where you know the answer to something but you can't recall it so you want to figure out the answer without actually getting the answer fed to you. Yeah, you'd think I'd stop being an idiot in the New Year. No such luck:D

Ahhhh, I didn't realize it was one of those "no, it'll come to me!" things.

[Ciderhillnh]

When I get texts from people that arent in my contact list (not often but it does happen) I Just reply back hey who is this......
Usually they have a new cell number or its been a few years since we last talked.....they clear it up, I add the number and then have someone else to call to go out.

[arrow]

That sounds almost like spam. Are we gonna get spam texts now? God I hope not!

[and1grad]

The worst is when I get those chain letter texts telling me to text this message to everyone on my list and all that. :mad:

[blueyes]

The worst is when I get those chain letter texts telling me to text this message to everyone on my list and all that. :mad:
ARGH! I got one of these the other day - FIVE TIMES! The ridiculous part was it was all of my friends from college and it was a Jesus chain letter text. Now, don't get me wrong - I'm Roman Catholic, I went to a Roman Catholic university, I attend church regularly - but I'm pretty sure that God et al have a few more important things on their hands than answering your chain text message requests...

[and1grad]

ARGH! I got one of these the other day - FIVE TIMES! The ridiculous part was it was all of my friends from college and it was a Jesus chain letter text. Now, don't get me wrong - I'm Roman Catholic, I went to a Roman Catholic university, I attend church regularly - but I'm pretty sure that God et al have a few more important things on their hands than answering your chain text message requests...
Ya I actually had to tell my cousin to stop sending me junk text mail. If you wanna say hi, say hi.

[coll214]

I do that kind of crap all the time; it drive me nuts when i can't remember how i know the number. Though i've started keeping the numbers of the people I don't want to talk to in my phone so when they call i can just ignore it. :D

[tina1979]

Though i've started keeping the numbers of the people I don't want to talk to in my phone so when they call i can just ignore it. :D
My sister has a contact in her phone as DO NOT ANSWER (instead of a name) anytime she doesn't want to talk to anyone she moves their number there. She said it keeps her from answering the phone when she doesn't need to. I asked her if curiosity of who it was that was calling ever got to her. She said sometimes, but the fact that she could be answering the phone to any number of people that she would rather not talk to is a huge possibility it keeps her from answering it at all.

[WorkInProgress]

My sister has a contact in her phone as DO NOT ANSWER (instead of a name) anytime she doesn't want to talk to anyone she moves their number there. She said it keeps her from answering the phone when she doesn't need to. I asked her if curiosity of who it was that was calling ever got to her. She said sometimes, but the fact that she could be answering the phone to any number of people that she would rather not talk to is a huge possibility it keeps her from answering it at all.

Yep, one of my friends does this. Mostly it's for ex-boyfriends.

[TinyDancer]

My sister has a contact in her phone as DO NOT ANSWER (instead of a name) anytime she doesn't want to talk to anyone she moves their number there. She said it keeps her from answering the phone when she doesn't need to. I asked her if curiosity of who it was that was calling ever got to her. She said sometimes, but the fact that she could be answering the phone to any number of people that she would rather not talk to is a huge possibility it keeps her from answering it at all.
I do this with people. One day, I was really stupid and used my personal cell rather than my work cell to do a few phone interviews. STUPID. It's bad enough that I have stalker crazy people calling me at work. . . but then to have them calling me at home. . . and in all hours of the night. . . yeah. . . For several months, I had several people listed as:
"Don't answer"
"No"
"Noooo"
"Nooooooo"

Also, I don't have texting on my phone. . . so I get messages, and I don't know who they are from. Drives me crazy. I have a friend that sends me a text on every single holiday "Happy Easter!" "Happy 4th of July!" "Merry Christmas" "Happy Birthday". . . no clue who it is. I also occasionally get "Good Morning!". . . and once a "Thanks for everything! You always help me!" Uhhh what?

[shadeofgreen]

My boyfriend and I were eating dinner one day, when he received a call from a number he didn't recognize. He answered it, and the young-sounding girl on the other end said, "hi, who's this?"

That on it's own is annoying. You dialed the number, genius, you tell me.

Anyway, turns out for some reason she's got his number programmed in her phone as "Penis Boy." He was way more polite than I would have been, told her he was pretty sure he didn't know her, and that was that. Or so he thought. Since then he has occasionally received text messages from the same number, usually just saying, "hey" but sometimes, "who is this?" or that sort of thing. He's never responded, but she's not easily deterred. Or she's bored/lonely.

Another time he got some random text message and he replied asking who it was. The response was, "your mom." And for hours afterwards he got texts from that same number, saying things like, "why won't you respond to your mother?" and related BS. I can't remember exactly how he ended it, but he finally did respond somehow that led the other person to say, "sorry, wrong number" and give up. I'm wondering if that was another friend of Penis Boy.

I have one persistant wrong number. For a long time I kept just missing the calls. I did a reverse phone look up and didn't recognize the name. One day after missing the call I finally decided I'd just call back and find out who this was. Turns out it's someone living on the state line who frequently calls someone with my number in a different area code. This has been going on for over a year, and most recently happened yesterday, when the ring from her careless dialing interrupted my Sunday morning sleeping in. If I ever manage to answer the phone when she calls, I think I'll suggest she learn how to use the speed dial function.

...apologies for the long-winded, semi off-topic ranting...

[PenforPrez]

I missed a call on my cell last week from an unfamiliar area code. I looked up the area code: Syracuse, NY. I don't know ANYBODY anywhere near Syracuse. :googly:

Paul

[Krishna]

My boyfriend and I got drunk dialed on New Year's by an unfamiliar number. It turned out to be a 40 year old family member of his...

[The Happy Hodag]

With all this talk about wrong numbers and drunk dialing, etc., I got a 1am drunk call on 4th of July on my cell. After realizing the number this gal called from was a local cell number, I texted her asking her who she was and why she was calling me at one in the morning. I got a response from her saying she didn't know who I was.

I still have her number in my call log from that incident, and I took advantage of that to make a drunken midnight call on New Year's. She didn't answer her phone, so I left a voicemail saying, "I LOVE YOU SARA!"

-The Happy Hodag!

[Krishna]

Hodag....*laughs* I really enjoy your name. :)