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🗓️ 1 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's the wildest wrong number call that you've ever received? |
0:05.0 | I got a call and I didn't recognize the number, so I ignored it three or four times until I eventually gave in. |
0:11.0 | I picked up the phone, and before I could say anything, a guy with a Brooklyn accent starts talking in panic, and he said, |
0:17.0 | Hey, yo, that guy we saw was one of Polish times boys. If he shows up, don't say crap about last night. And I said, Hey, yo, that guy we saw was one of Polish Tom's boys. If he shows up, don't say crap about last night. |
0:23.4 | And I said, sorry, this must be the wrong number. |
0:26.2 | He just started cursing and hung up. |
0:28.5 | Ever since then, I've been curious as to who the heck this Polish Tom is. |
0:33.6 | I used to get calls for Phoebe right after I got my new number. |
0:54.6 | A lot of calls. I was always nice and let them know that they had the wrong number. This went on for two years. Near the end, I got a call from an unknown number. It was Phoebe. She said she wanted to apologize and thanked me for being kind. And she thinks she told everyone the new number, but if anyone calls, could I give it to them? I said, sure, no problem. I still occasionally get calls. I politely inform them of the new |
0:59.9 | number. One guy was surprised and started texting me about the whole situation. We became |
1:04.7 | friends only over text, and we still text occasionally to this day. A guy called from prison. |
1:11.5 | After I told him wrong number, he said he had nobody to talk to, and he had just dialed |
1:15.9 | a random number. |
1:17.1 | I was young and naive, but the guy never asked for anything. |
1:20.4 | We talked for a while, him telling me how he got to be in jail. |
1:24.2 | Straight up street thug, but he was trying to make good and get back to society in good shape. |
1:28.3 | Never talked again. I hope he made it out okay. |
1:32.3 | I was repeatedly getting an international number, and when I picked up, the only thing that it said was, |
1:37.3 | Hello? And then it doesn't hang up, and it's very clearly a recording of the hello, and then just faint static. |
1:43.3 | Super creepy. |
1:45.0 | Also, one time I had a wrong number call from the area code I lived in, and when I told |
1:49.2 | the guy that I wasn't Greg, he didn't seem to mind and asked me if I party. I said no, so |
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