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Things That Really Annoy Me

People who call me up and say "Who is this?" in response to my "Hello?"

Here's a free clue - If you don't know who I am, you have the wrong number.

Comments

Great one, Lesley! This is almost exactly what my husband recently said. I'm trying to talk him into pretending to be a butler in an English residence to freak out wrong-number callers (of which we get a lot, for some reason) into thinking they've somehow dialed the UK...

Let's try this again. Posted my comment to the wrong entry.

Pardon me, but isn't that you have caller id?

Truly,

Not So Know It All The Pest

I also like this one: I'll pick up and say, "Hello" and this is followed by a 3-4 second silence. Then the voice on the other end says, "Uh hello?". At this point I just patiently say, "What number are you calling?" and I get "Uh - oh - uh I guess I dialed a wrong number".

Elayne - That would be excellent! I hope you talk him into it.

Pest - Yes, but this was on my cell phone and listed as Private. I don't get telemarketers on my cell phone, so I thought it might be someone I knew.