By orangemango - 22/04/2014 06:18 - United States - Lahaina
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Hello! OP here! Nice little surprise when I woke up this morning! This happened to me about two months ago and my husband thought the situation was funny enough to post. I keep my phone on because my husband's 90-year-old grandmother lives in the same community as us and he's the first person she calls in case of emergencies. When he's off island on business trips, that responsibility falls on me. Since I'm a really heavy sleeper, I leave the ringer on pretty loud. And yes, I know there's a do not disturb function on my iPhone, but I never used it cause I've never gotten a phone call at such odd hours. I didn't check the number when I answered the first time cause I was already in a mad rush to wake up and find my phone without my glasses and freak out that something might've happened to grandma while my husbands away. I was pretty groggy when I answered and I guess the lady didn't appreciate the fact I kept saying "huh?" and "what?". She thought I was sleeping on the job or playing a prank on her and wanted to talk to my supervisor. I told her it was three in the morning and that she had dialed a Hawaiian residential number. There was a long pause and she just hung up. My phone rang a minute later from the same number, but it was a man this time. I told him the same thing and he gave me a half-assed apology and hung up. This happened for the next two nights (also rang during the day) and I found out from one of the calls that the shoe company had actually misprinted their 1-800 number on their packing slip (it was printed 1-808-XXX-XXXX). So I did start using the do not disturb function on my phone and I even changed my voice mail to tell people that this isn't the number they're trying to reach. However, some of them didn't even bother listening to my message and started leaving me voice mails. They were pretty funny. The shoe company specialized in plus-sized shoes for women, but I don't think they were very good. One lady got two left shoes and another was threatening to sue if she didn't get her refund. I already had to change my number back in December (a Samoan family somehow got my number and kept calling and intimidating me cause I apparently got beaten up by their son/brother/nephew/grandson and "it would be wise if you kept your mouth shut") and I was going to be charged $36 for a new number and I didn't want to deal with updating everyone my new number again. What I did end up doing was every time someone called, I'd start trolling them. Some highlights were Teniqua, angry black lady who was wondering why some woman is calling her baby daddy; Sugar **** Mandy, phone sex hotline; Rainbow Waterfall, hippie doomsday and conspiracy preacher; and my husband's, Dick Johnson, Swinging Salami Inc., every order gets you a free complimentary *****! The calls stopped coming about a week after we started trolling with a few stragglers here and there. Probably from people who dialed an 8 instead of a 0. We assumed either the shoe company finally fixed the mistake, changed their phone number, or went out of business. Happy to say I got my number back!
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I'm from the east coast. I need to return my shoes. What is your number ? Lol
First three digits are 808 - just try your way until you hit the rest GL say hi
Make a person voice mail and have it mention that it's incorrect and best of all keep your phone on silent...or if it's a land line just unplug it
Tell them they don't sound smart enough since they can't even dial the number right.
Tell the person that you need to put them on a brief hold then hang up.
I would of trolled the caller lol
I know how annoying this can be and "Hang up, problem solved" is no solution when people keep calling. I once had the phone number of horror - if you interchanged two numbers it was similar to the phone number of a huge local cinema and people kept calling day and night to reserve tickets. And when it was not the cinema people I got called by strangers because next to my name in the phone book was a dentist and apparently it really is that hard to take a closer look. Although I found it really fascinating that the same peole kept calling the wrong number again and again - and after a year or so I begun to make appointments for them. Sounds mean, but when the same person called four or fives times AFTER you´ve explained to them "No, this is not the dentist, you´ve got the wrong number... again..." and even gave the correct number to them at some point you are just fed up.
I turn my phone off when I go to bed at night so my sleep isn't interrupted.
You can turn your phone on silent or turn it off altogether (take it off the hook if a land line), if these aren't an option, you can change your number. but some carriers charge for that and you have to do a lot of work telling friends family work businesses etc your new number. Good luck op!
block the number. easy as that
Ha I live in Hawaii too lbs
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Is this the shoe store? NO THIS IS PATRICK!!!
"Wrong number" *hang up* Problem solved!