What Would Happen if Someone Gave You a Fake Phone Number?

[Chef Mary Rose]

You know how someone gives you a number, you try calling and find the number doesn't work? You're not sure if it was you who transposed the number or if the person just gave you a fake number on purpose?

Wouldn't it be funny if someone gave you their number and you immediately whipped out your phone and started to dial it while saying, "I just want to make sure my fingers are working right!"

For those who deliberately give out false phone numbers, I wonder what they'd do?

(only in my mind do such scenarios end well...)

 

[missyciccolella]

I'm imagining a dating situation...thank goodness when I dated cell phones really weren't around or else some real weirdos might have gotten my actual number!

 

[straitfan]

I'm imagining a dating situation...thank goodness when I dated cell phones really weren't around or else some real weirdos might have gotten my actual number!

LOL! I had almost forgotten that a few times I gave out the local "time and temperature number" as my ph #!!! That was a LOOOOOOONG time ago.

 

[cmdtrgd]

I remember giving out the number for the local radio station burn line. It was a general answering machine message and then they made fun of the weird ones on Monday morning - like the ones who called at 3am and were so drunk that they couldn't speak in a sentence.

 

[lockhartkitchen]

phone callI got a call from a student's mom after school this week. She said she wasn't calling to talk about her son, but I'd left my name to be contacted for a bridal fair opportunity. She was the organizer! Small world. Saw an ad in the paper and a number to call (with no name). For 5 hours the table cost $250!! Yikes! I told her it was too much for me. She talked to her boss and she's going to work something out with me (donating gift, etc), so she can have me there. Yeah! It helps to know people.

 

[pampchefrhondab]

There are ways to find the real number if you have an address and if they have a land line. The problem today is so many people use cell phones.

 

[allisonserna]

My friend would do the fake numbers as we were leaving clubs about 5 years ago, everyone has cell phones back then, so some jerks would call on the spot, and we would be putting up the windows and driving away as they were yelling profanities as us.

Thankfully no one went pysco on us.