On-Star call

[rock doc]

I get a call on my On-Star from someone I don't know, and can't remember his name, so let's call him Bob Lawblaw.

He said, "Tom, this is Bob Lawblaw."

I replied, "My name is not Tom, you must have the wrong number."

Bob Lawblaw said, "Tom, I just called this number yesterday and you answered."

I replied, "My name is not Tom, and you did not call this number yesterday and speak with me. This is my On-Star number. Do I sound like Tom?"

Bob Lawblaw asked, "What number is this?"

I replied, "I don't know because it's my On-Star phone, and I never call myself when I'm in the car."

Bob Lawblaw said, "Hang up, and I'll call this number again, but don't answer. I want to hear your voice recording." I was thinking that maybe Tom owes Bob Lawblaw some money or services.

At this point I thought, what the heck. I'll play with this a little. The On-Star rings, and I didn't answer it. It rings again and I pick up.

Bob Lawblaw said, in a firm voce, "Tom, why did you delete your voice message?"

Now, I was getting a little irritated at his insistence, and I replied, "My name is not Tom, and it's my On-Star phone. There is no voice message to set up. I'm driving in my freaking car!!"

Bob Lawblaw then said, "Why are you lying to me, Tom?"

I replied, "Look, I don't know who you are, or who Tom is."

Bob Lawblaw said in an even firmer voice, "You'll find out who I am."

At this point, I was laughing until he hung up. I still don't know who Bob Lawblaw was. I hope he realized his mistake and felt like baboon's butt.

 

[Doug627]

I feel bad for Tom.

 

[feralmerril]

I smell a scam.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

You receive much more interesting phone calls than I do. Mine seem to come really late at night, collect, from the county jail booking desk. Usually something like this:

Is Bill (or Tom, or Terry, or Shirley) there?

Not at this number.

I must have the wrong number. I'm sorry.

That's all right. I had to get up and answer the phone anyway.

Click.

 

[Mickey D]

roc doc, you sure it wasn't Bob from Iowa?

 

[rock doc]

roc doc, you sure it wasn't Bob from Iowa?

Could have been.

I always liked the name Bob Lawblaw from Arrested Development, Henry Winkler's character where he played a lawyer.

 

[rock doc]

I smell a scam.

I don't think so. No mention of money was discussed, it was just my feeling. I just think he was an idiot who mis-dialed, and couldn't figure out it was a wrong number.

 

[O2Guy]

Jake from State Farm?

 

[Bob R]

Next time, if there is one, he calls, play along and be Tom. It should help pass the time.

bob

 

[sophie]

What we have here is a "failure to communicate".

 

[Mcwsky09]

I once got a bit upset when I did not reach the number I dialed until I realized that my new cell phone was in a different area code that the number I was trying to reach and had to include the area code for it to work properly.

 

[kaaskop49]

Many years ago in NYC, we began to receive obscene phone calls. When it became oppressive, we had our # changed. The new # proved to be the former # of an escort service. Calls from men arriving in NYC with the service's business card asking for "Michelle." Can't make this stuff up.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[LVSteve]

I came home to an interesting message on my phone about 15 years ago. It was from a woman berating Joe about how had hurt her and broke her heart. She rambled on for some time, clearly greased by drink and/or drugs.

The punchline: my greeting clearly said "Hi, this is Steve..." with my British accent.

I played this message to my then girlfriend, later my wife, who for years afterwards used to tease me about being a ruthless heartbreaker with another identity.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

When my brother was in college he was a night clerk at a stock brokerage, The phone # was one off the local teen hit radio station. They got about 20 calls a night wanting to know if the caller was "caller number nine?" Once the daily reports were caught up, as many as 15 would be caller #9 and if they could say the 'phrase that pays' would win a new car or sometimes a chicken dinner! After all they answered the phone, "Merrill-Lynch" so what would you expect? Ivan

 

[Brian41]

I get those wrong numbers on my On Star phone sometimes too and know when it rings it'll be one because only my wife has the number and never calls it. It never fails to amaze me though that I get argument that they didn't call the wrong number. Next time I think I'm going to pretend to be who they called for the fun of it. It's got to be entertaining than the radio.

 

[wilkoi]

Bill collectors have been know to use any trick available to track down someone.

 

[BarbC]

I came home to find a message in a deep southern drawl on my answering machine:

"Sister Cecilia? This is Sister Pearl. I need you to bake a cake for Sunday."

I just chuckled and deleted it.

A few weeks later, another message is left:

"Sister Cecilia, this is Sister Pearl. Now, I need a cake for this Sunday so please be sure to bring one."

Hahaha

A week or so after that, another message:

"Sister Cecilia!! This is Pearl. I need a cake this Sunday and don't you be showing up with no cake and telling me you didn't get the message!"

So now I felt bad for Sister Cecilia. I called back the number and left a message on Pearl's answering machine:

"Hi. You've been calling here by mistake and that's why you haven't gotten your cake."

Never got another call and Sister Cecelia was righteously vindicated.

 

[BigBoy99]

We have been getting phone calls from a collection agency asking for a certain person who 20 years ago stole my wife's SSN and used it to open credit cards. This person died ten years ago but some how we are getting calls about the debit on the cards he open. The last call I answered, I said that I was that person and they went on and on about who was going to pay the debit. I told that I was going to have problem paying it because I died ten years ago. They hung up on me!.

 

[islamoradamark]

my wife has on star thats enough for me i cant take a car talking to me thanks for the heads up ill make sure i dont get that

 

[tbgunner88]

That reminds me of a call my buddy who has a prosthetic leg got from the army recruiters, when we were around 18 we would get calls almost daily from all different branches of the military asking if we had considered enlisting. My friend, who's leg was amputated above the knee obviously wasn't a candidate for service, anyway he gets a call from the army recruiters and the guy tells him that he heard that he really didn't have a prosthetic leg and was just making it up, my buddy told him that he was welcome to come see for himself. I still to this day can't understand where the recruiter came up with that idea or why he would have said that to him. There are some strange people in this world.