Slight grinding of teeth

[altariel]

So the woman who dialled my home phone number at 5.15am this morning just rang again, and was very puzzled as to why I was answering her home phone. It transpired she was pressing a '3' in the STD code, when she needed to be pressing a '2'.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

I figure she must have programmed it wrong into her mobile. Hopefully now she'll sort it out. We get phone calls meant for this town all the time.

5.15am...? Coming home from the airport? Locked out by evil goblins? Car wouldn't go faster than 1/2 mile an hour and it's taking her ages to get home from work? Spent all night trying to programme her new mobile and only now had the chance to check she'd done it right?

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

You'd think she'd have twigged that something was wrong with the number when she (presumably) got your answerphone at 5.15, instead of the evil goblins that were occupying her house. Oh well.

I used to get loads of wrong numbers at bizarre times of day on my NTL number, speaking (I think) Chinese on a bad line. I can only assume that someone had mistakenly sent my number back to the extended family at home, who were then trying to get in touch. I never could make them understand what was going on. It must have cost them a fortune.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think that family had our phone number in Reading too...