Monday, November 22, 2010

Wrong Number

While taking a nap today, a phone call woke me up. I had called someone earlier in the day, so I thought it was probably them, until I looked at the number, and I realized it wasn’t.
"Hello?" I answered.
"GiGeeGee?" she asked.  I almost sighed.  I was trying to think of a way to tell her to stop calling that would actually work, because I've told her to stop calling for ages now and she still is doing this.  As I paused, she apologized and hung up. 
About a month ago, this woman began calling me. She always sounds confused, and I’ve explained to her (she’s called at least ten times) that I don’t know who she is.  I suspect she's an older woman with memory problems, because no amount of "stop calling this number" has worked so far. 
Last week she called me twice while I was at work, which makes me nervous. Most of the time people at work are cool, but what if I’m in a meeting? What if she does what she did last week, where she called me in quick succession?
So I just sent an email to my Mother asking how I can best block her phone number. Mostly, I want her to know what is happening since we’re on a family plan and someone calls her asking if she knows I've had to block someone's number I don't want her flipping out. 
I was reluctant to take any action until now because I was hoping this woman would stop calling or someone was taking care of her and make her stop. 

2 comments:

  1. It's terrible when that happens. I had a prank caller a year ago who threatened to kill my daughters. It was so stupid.He sounded stupid. It just made me feel angry. How he got my house number????I suppose it was in the book, and he was trying any number. But he did know I had a daughters.

    I called the police and although very sympathetic there was not a lot they could do. We payed an extra charge to get this idiots, "witheld " number, blocked. It hasn't happened since.
    Alice, my eldest, told me it had happened to most of her friends.

    It's not the world I'm used to.

    I hope your problem is solved.

    Tony

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  2. Tony-

    Oh my gosh that is so horrible. I would be so upset to if someone called threatening to kill my family.

    I'm hoping that she really is just confused, because she sounds really out of it. And once I block her, it's not as big of a deal to me, because she's not bothering me.

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