Old style phones

[Ally]

:lol:

When we moved here we were assigned someone's redundant number and it's only recently that we've stopped getting calls for Brenda Tomlinson. Obviously we don't know whether she'd simply changed her number, if she'd moved or if she'd sadly died but some calls would come from people who knew her and finding us answering and explaining we'd been given the number when we moved and it was no longer her number came as quite as surprise

We constantly get calls for the ayuntamiento (town hall.)

Hola...Carlos?

No

No???!!!

No

No?????!!!!!!

NOOOOOOO

[Ally]

My ex s-i-l in Birmingham had the phone number 4545456

[JoM]

When we first had the phone in the 70s we used to get calls for a local plumber, and at our old house we sometimes used to get calls for a hairdressers - we were one digit different. I should've told them I'd gone mobile and taken the bookings

[Kaz]

We were one digit different from a taxi firm in our Egham house - that led to plenty of phone calls in the wee small hours at weekends! They got short shrift

[TheOstrich]

One summer's day last year, in the office, we suddenly started getting calls from youngsters seeking further education / careers advice. On the third or fourth call, we started to wonder what was going on. A quick bit of internet research proved that Birmingham City University had launched a prominent web-page with a hot-line phone number one digit different from ours .....

[TheOstrich]

Now then, confession time ...... how many of you, when you were kids, sidled up to the telephone and started pressing numbers at random to see who you got?

I remember my mother caught me one day in the middle ofv a long conversation with the operator .....

[Ally]

When Craig was 2 he managed to dial the number of a bank in Chicago!!!!

[JoM]

Tom was about two when I was about to make a call but quickly put the phone down on a table in the living room to answer the door. When I came back he was chatting on it. To a 999 operator. I apologised profusely and was then given a good telling off for being so careless with where I'd left the phone.

[Ally]

Tom was about two when I was about to make a call but quickly put the phone down on a table in the living room to answer the door. When I came back he was chatting on it. To a 999 operator. I apologised profusely and was then given a good telling off for being so careless with where I'd left the phone.

[Kaz]

Bit officious of them Jo, kids will do these things sometimes.........Harry once managed to summon police to our house!!! At least I think Harry did it as only he and I were in the house at the time. They said there had been a 999 call from our house with muffled noise then the phone slammed down, so they thought there was maybe a burglary in progress or some sort of problem..... They were very good about it actually........