December 17, 2007
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eh! Steve!
I got a call at 8ish this morning from a number in Ohio that I didn’t recognize, so I let it go to voicemail and listened to the message on my way to work.
Here’s the deal. According to my ancient (before-she-worked-at-Xanga) Xanga site, I have been receiving calls intended for Steve since 2003. Steve may not be a popular guy, but his activities are certainly varied – he was at fault in a car accident in late 2004, so the guys at Progressive got to know me pretty well. Steve also got an invitation from his friend Jim to hang out and play hockey, and today, a guy at the bakery wanted to know if he was going to come into work on time or not.
Steve’s calls are usually pretty spread out, so it’s not worth complaining to Verizon, but I want to know how you could go four years occasionally giving people the wrong phone number – especially the insurance company!
What’s the best course of action for this? Keep in mind that my voicemail message very clearly states, “Iiiiiiiiiiiit’s Natalia. Leave a message,” and my pronunciation does not really leave any room for ambiguity as to whether I may have mistakenly said “Steve” instead.
I keep waiting to get a call saying, “Hey, it’s Steve . . . have there been any calls for me?”
Comments (15)
If you ever end up talking to one of these callers, ask them what number they are trying to reach. See if this is someone still listing their old number, or perhaps they are dialing a number that should have an area code on it, but doesn’t, or it is a dyslexic thing (for Steve or those dialers).
Of course, you could always add to your announcement something like “This is Natalie. I am not now, nor have I ever been, Steve. This has been my phone number for 4 years. In all that time, no Steve should have been giving out this number. In fact, I intend to never date a Steve, just to keep things clear.”
Oh awesome. I’ll have to remember that compressed saying.
Hahah too funny! My hubs got calls from some guy named Mike’s friends for 2 yrs. It stopped for about 6 months and then two weeks ago at 2a.m. he got a call from some woman looking for Mike. =O I wonder what that was all about?? keke
The reason I thought of asking for the number is that we’ve had several cases of this sort of thing. It varies year to year as to who they are asking about. But, in my case, I’ve had the same number for 30 years, so it isn’t, in general, someone using an old number. I’ve had people calling me using their cell phones and thinking they were going to get some other area code, people swapping a couple of digits, etc.
LOL!! this story is hysterical to me. i wonder what steve is like? what does steve do? does he ever wonder why he sometimes seems to miss important phone calls he’s expecting and/or people claim to have made? oh steve, what an enigma.
for years i’ve been getting calls looking for a Mohammed. APPARENTLY, my number is listed in an ad or posting. they’ve tapered off somewhat, but still everyone once in awhile i’ll get that phonecall from a heavily accented east indian and they never fail to call twice in a row.
*ring ring*
“it’s me again. you got the wrong number again.”
*click*
I just get lots of drunken phone calls from people at strange hours now. I let the roommate pick up; he’s English, and therefore confuses and shocks the shit out of them if they’re expecting me.
Now, that’s interesting.
My wife got a cell phone earlier this year. Every once inwhile she’d get a call from someone (insurance, past due bills, etc…)…
Essentially, she’d spend over 15 minutes on the phone with each Professional company, explaining the number situation.
It’s taken a few months, and the calls are less and less.
What makes it sad? The person is a man, and he’s hispanic – and even his family call’s, screaming at my wife (or me) as to “why” she has “his” phone. (all en espanol)
If it keeps happening, the best you can do is have fun with it.
If a woman call’s….tell her that “Steve will be out of the bathroom soon….he’s in the middle of a shower and will have to call you back….can I take a message?”
The guy deserve’s it…especially if he hands out that phone # still.
(I’m not a vindictive person…but it sounds like an opportunity for fun….or at least another blog post).
HA! can you imagine if steve called and you actually gave him all his messages? He could pay for a couple months of phone minutes for ya too…
heh… change nothing about the situation and always have some fresh and fun material to keep blogging about.
also, if you obsessively change your away message, i’m sure u can have fun with your voicemail greetings as well. i hate recording my own voicemail greetings. i record the same message over and over until i’m more or less satisfied and am not stumbling over words i would never poorly articulate in any other setting.
remember when we kept getting calls for amy
and then mom went to gran and ha-ha’s and called our house and said “hi this is amy…have there been any calls for me?”
dad was mad.
i’ve had this mother-of-someone call me and demand that i identify myself, explain why i had been calling her precious daughter, and that i needn’t know who she was.
to cut the story short, she misdialled the number. and didn’t bother to apologise.
that bitch!
instead of saying Its Natalia, you should say: IIIIIIIITS NOT STEVE YOU STUPID BASTARDS SO UNLESS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR NATALIA, DON’T LEAVE A MESSAGE!
flipping it around: ever wonder whom you have forgotten to notify that you have a different contact number from the previous one?
hm, it makes me wonder! not enough to the point where i am going to stay up at night, but almost.
p/s.: i am digging the updated layout. who really digs anymore?
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