So glad it wasn't someone I know

No caller ID here, not enough incoming calls to bother.

RM calls every day at the exact same time. It was that time, right on cue, the phone rang. I answered saying something well, rather, ok more than rather, suggestive. I got silence.

It is what I was going for, leaving her utterly speechless.

Then, I hear giggling. That was not really what I was aiming for.

Then this voice, barely able to contain the laughter says "expecting ___?"

It was my mother.

I instinctively did the only thing I knew to do. I hung up.

The phone rang and I answered with a very embarrassed, trying not to gigle nervously and quiet "hello". It was the wife, we shared what happened. She too was equally amused and horrified. We got off the phone and I called mom.

She did not let me live it down and has not until this day.

Two great stories! Thanks for giving me a LOL moment today!

I'm laughing so hard, I don't think I can remember any good stories!!

These are so funny. I had a similar thing yesterday but not nearly as interesting.

Mom called and goes on and on. As she does everyday. And usually she says bye, and then calls right back, becaue she forgot something. Never fails. Well I was busy so after I hung up I went right back down a flight of stairs to work. Sure enough , as I'm about to sit down, the phone rings again! Of course!Its my mom AGAIN! She always does this and I told her I was busy!

So I march back up and pick up the phone, and I said in a snarky impatient voice, "Okay, what is it now!?"

The voice on the other end says "hello?" then I say, realizing it's not my mom, "uh hello?" and then the voice says again "hello?" and I say, "hello?" and so we go around. Don't ask me why.

Finally the caller breaks into this unfamiliar British sounding Indian accent. Maybe our hello-hello-hello thing was some cultural mismatch. Anyways it turns out it was this distant relative of mine calling from India, who've never met.Oy. Man I must have sounded so rude.

RevJohn said So glad our display is J&K and not RevJohn.

My aunt was a nun for awhile. Her display showed up on my phone as
Sister ________. She was a liberal nun who lived in her own suite. (I have no idea how that came to be as I know very little about nuns)

My Mom and Dad were visiting an aunt (not the nun) and I was in grade 12 so I did not go because I had school. They were gone for the week as well as the weekend. I called my parents dutifully every night. I was even allowed one friend to stay overnight. My curfew was 10:00 PM on school nights and 11:00 PM on weekends. So it is around 11:15 on Friday night. I am over at my friends. She reminds me that I need to call my mom and she did not want me to leave come back like I had been doing so she told me to use her phone my mom would never know.

So, I am talking to my mom....

"Yes. I am home. Yes. All the doors are locked. Yes. The windows are shut. No. I have not fed the cat yet. Yeah, I am going to bed pretty soon....."

This many years ago call display was a new feature. We did not have it yet and none of my friends had it BUT my aunt had it. (unbeknownst to me)

My mom reminded me that I was grounded when they got home for breaking curfew AND covering it up before she hung up. So this is one incident clearly where caller ID did not work for me. Since that traumatic experience I basically use caller ID not to answer the phone if I don't want to talk to someone.

I was calling my brother a few years back and apparently got the number order mixed up in the area code - so I ended up chatting with a nice lady who ran a hunting camp in the deep south USA. It was hurricane season & a lot of coastal people had been displaced, so she was telling me all about the folks they had put up at their camp in the mountains, how they were managing without electricity etc. etc. I think we talked for about 20 minutes! Very interesting!

carolla...I am getting farmboy to read your post!

He teased me about answering a "wrong number" and having a long chat with the person about how embarrassed we were when we did that...we exchanged real numbers, but I haven't called her back as yet.

Farmboy was waiting for his lunch and felt the need to lecture me on phone protocol. Thank you, Carolla...you rock!

I have call display too. You know what's depressing? MOST of the calls I get are from telemarketers. How sad.
Many years ago, I went out with a fella that I met through a wrong number. We chatted and called each other for a few months until I decided to go for coffee with him.
From our conversations, I pictured him looking like Danny Devito and felt kinda sorry for him. He actually looked like Barry Gibb and drove a corvette. We didn't hit it off in person, so I didn't pursue it.
I would never do anything so risky as this these days, nor should anyone else.

When I was a child (many years ago), my family lived in a big old rambling farm house. It was too far to just yell for someone and expect them to hear you - so, my mother had gotten into the habit of calling the upstairs phone in my sister's room when she wanted anyone up there. One day, she called and in a high sing song voice said "Come on down dear, your lunch is ready". She was mortified to hear a deep masculine voice say "I'll be right there!" She hung up the phone very quickly needless to say. We teased her about that for many years. God bless!

We were on the highway and tired, this past week, so phoned an 800 number to get a hotel in the closest town - my wife mentioned this fact and the person asked how was the weather, and in response she said where are you - in the Philippines - oh I have been there, and an interesting conversation continued - did you hear about this in Toronto was the next question? and on and on.

O by the way as I was reading this I 'won' a trip to mexico - at least that was the claim as I was hanging up - the visual doesnot always help.

Pan;

I have won lots of free trips to Mexico, Bahamas, and Hawaii. What I don;t get is WHY for all these "free" trips I need to pay the taxes which are over $3,000 or they want my credit card number.