Pickles by Brian Crane for December 12, 2018

You know, the couple from that place, with the thing, and the yard. He works at that one place, and she works down by that one thing, where we had lunch that one day! Remember?

wrong number I presume

I always wanted to become somebody’s Rick and Cindy. Pick some poor schmoe at random and act like you know him and expect him to know you too, making him to embarrassed to admit he has no idea who you are.

That’s like the call that was left on our business answering machine. Sort of “Hi, Pat. This is (somebody). Sorry I can’t make it.” Well, Pat never got the message and was probably upset with somebody when she didn’t show up.

Had that experience…got one from somebody’s doctor reminding them to keep an appointment….

Tis easy to push the wrong contact on a contact list when one is in a rush ;-)

If you want someone to keep a secret then why tell them what it is.

Back in my teen years, a friend would come over for the night, and we’d make random phone calls in the “wee small hours”. One was, “This is the sandman, are you having problems sleeping?”

So I’m not the only one who speaks his texts into his phone!

I recently got an email from a friend meant for her family members with an attachment of her son’s Christmas wish list. Emailed her back attaching mine to give to her son, since we’re now obviously exchanging gifts.

I hate to tell you this, Earl, but the grandchild is yours!

I keep on getting love and blessings from somebody for Clarice. I keep telling them they have the wrong number LOL.

I truly laughed out loud this morning!

That’s why most secrets are safe with me. Well, safe from being repeated, anyway. Not completely safe from being forgotten.

Not long after I got my first cellphone, I found out that they “recycle” phone numbers. I am now on my second phone and third phone number, and all of them got repeated calls for the same wrong person. The first one was from regular people, saying and texting “Wassup” and stuff like that. I requested and got another number, which got calls about school grades or something. Then I changed phones with a new number, and the calls are about missing some great “deal” on something…

In a world where butt dialing is a thing, is it moral to just ignore miscommunications like this, or are we required to message ’em back to say “Who are you and who did you intend to message?”

I once got a text wishing me “Happy Birthday, Mom!” The number was unfamiliar, so I replied that I am male and that, to the best of my knowledge, I have never been anyone’s mother. Got a thank you reply; the texter realized after sending it that she’d transposed a couple of the numbers. I like to think that informing her of the mistake helped preserve the mother-daughter relationship, and added a small amount of order to the universe that day.

If I get a call or text from a wrong number, I call them back or text them that they reached the wrong number. When I got a new phone and number, I kept getting voice messages inviting me to parties. The caller sounded drunk, and the background noise was worse. No matter how many times I called him, and I actually reached him once, he still called. I had to ask the provider for a new number.

Once upon a time there were three Steve H——-‘s in the phonebook. When I got a mystery call I’d reply “do you want Steve the biologist, Steve the theologist or Steve the short-order cook?”

While vacationing out of state, some girl, with the wrong number kept texting me love notes. I text back that she had the wrong number but I kept getting text from her. Finally I replied back that it was over I found someone else. The texting finally stopped. I guess the signals were just being crossed up. But it was strange.