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Yes, I do remember that - thanks for posting it again

and then there was Peggy...

...or this call

This is a telephone call between a hotel guest and Room Service, at an Asian hotel. The call was recorded and later published, in the Far East Economic Review.

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Room Service: "Morny. Ruin Sorbees."

Guest: "Sorry, I thought I dialed Room Service?

Room Service: "Rye ... Ruin sorbees ... morny! Djewish to oder sunteen??"

Guest: "Uh ... yes ... I'd like some bacon and eggs?

Room Service: "Ow July den?"

Guest: "What??"

Room Service: Ow July den? ... pry, boy, pooch?

Guest: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled, please."

Room Service: "Ow July de bayhcem ... crease?"

Guest: "Crisp will be fine."

Room Service: "Hokay. An San tos?"

Guest: "What?"

Room Service: "San tos. July San tos?"

Guest: "I don't think so."

Room Service: "No? Judo one toes??"

Guest: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means."

Room Service: "Toes! toes! ... why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?"

Guest: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

Room Service: "We bother?"

Guest: "No ... just put the bother on the side."

Room Service: "Wad?"

Guest: "I mean butter ... just put it on the side."

Room Service: "Copy?"

Guest: "Sorry?"

Room Service: "Copy ... tea ... mill?"

Guest: "Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."

Room Service: "One minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh and copy ... rye??"

Guest: "Whatever you say."

Room Service: "Tendjewberrymud."

Guest: "You're welcome."

Not really a wrong number story but this is kind of funny...

Nordic Track
For a while I got calls regularly for people looking to purchase Nordic Track, they'd seen it advertised on television and this was the phone number. Strangely they didn't remember to place the toll free '800' code before my number. They could remember 7 digits; but, not the 800? I just shut the ringer off and checked on the answering machine for any actual messages. You'd be surprised how many, after hearing a message stating my name, not Nordic Track, insist on leaving details asking for a brochure to be sent them.

Oh, I thought you meant the other Peggy...

That was pretty damned funny.

We usually get phone calls which actually want a connection to some extension at the headquarters of a local, international automotive part supplier. (From private ... "Could you tell Michael that I'm not at home when he returns from the shift" ... to business-related ,,,, "We didn't get the drawings. Could you resent them" ...)

They a complete different number - but four digits are the same .... as our complete number. [Yes, we still have a four digit number: easier to remember. We've two ten digit numbers as well - which I don't know at all.]

Most annoying, however, is when they send a fax from one office in the headquarter to another. So I have to call the telephone girl there, tell her to give a person at that fax a note that she/he is dialling the wrong number ...

You're a genius.

And you know - that Outback is out of business too - perhaps my kids were playing with their orders as well.