I'm not a taxi.............

hoyles10

hc25036 wrote: »

My mobile was one number different from a carpet fitter. Shouldn't have been too much of a problem but he obviously wasn't very good as people kept phoning up and leaving rude messages and hanging up!

:rotfl: :rotfl:

I'm sure that was rather annoying but your post made me chuckle.

dally1

Our landline is the same number but a different area code to a vicarage in another village. We often have messages left on the answerphone asking for details of services(!) and times of funerals etc. Have had some fairly late calls but none in the middle of the night - yet!

vikingaero

My mum and dads number is similar to Eurotunnels (people dial the local area code instead of 0870) and when I was living at home we used to get calls to book their car onto a shuttle.

Most people realised their mistake and were reasonable, but one or two were real pr1cks and insistent that I take a booking for them. So I did. I'd tap away on my computer pretending to take a booking. Never did find out if they made it to France.

anmarj

tell us about it, swap the last two digits of our phone number and you have our local asda, plenty of calls they also leave messages on our answering machine. we also went through a spell of getting callers calling the bt helpline re internet etc, one lady called 5 times and left messgage had to call her and tell her to stop, one even got hold of the moible from the answering service and called me! that message soon got changed!

frivolous_fay

biscit wrote: »

They are similar to the thickos who quote 0208 and 0207 as the London codes.

I'm a thicko then.
020 is a stupid code.
An 8 digit number is too long to remember.
I don't care if I'm wrong. 020x xxx xxxx is much nicer to read.