Annoying yet puzzling phone call

WillowTheWhisp · 25-02-2008, 14:17

I just had a phone call - well no, to be accurate I didn't have a phone call.

The phone rang. The caller asked to speak to Mrs. T............ I told them there was no Mrs T. There is a Miss T (in fact two of them but neither are here at the mo.) and I was about to add that I am Mrs T-H and ask did they want me or one of my daughters. But they just asked for Mrs T again so I said , "There is no Mrs. T" and was about to add that I am Mrs T-H but they hung up! Now I'm left wondering if it was something important and the caller was too ignorant to listen, or was it a sales call and the caller was to thick to listen to my reply.

I did try calling back in case it was important as the number didn't seem to be one of those pointless ones but the phone just rang and rang and no reply so don't know there's much else I can do.

Neil · 25-02-2008, 14:19

If it is important they will call back, it was probably a sales call.

WillowTheWhisp · 25-02-2008, 15:17

I was thinking they won't call back though if they think that they got the wrong number.

I've since had a phone call for Emzie - even before school finished let alone giving her chance to get home and one for somebody who I've never even heard of!

Madhatter · 25-02-2008, 15:41

I've just had one too, sounded like a call centre asked for me back full name then hung up before I could say yes.

WillowTheWhisp · 25-02-2008, 15:44

They didn't ask me for anything - just didn't give me chance to find out who they were trying to speak to.

WalkOnBRFC · 25-02-2008, 17:08

Maybe if you had said this is Mrs T-H earlier they might have had a chance but they might have thought you were getting abit shirty with them because they had the wrong number? or they might have just presummed that Mrs T no longer lived in the property and you were a new women in the life of Mr T (not the Mr T but Mr T) therefore not the person they were looking for? Doesn't excuse them putting the phone down mind you

keetah992000 · 25-02-2008, 17:11

we have had three in the last week - asking to speak to mrs M (partners surname) when i said i not that they asked to speak to the person named M passed on to my partner and it was just consumer sales questionnaire we have since gone through the same scenario but i have refused to pass them on as my partner works nights and i wont wake him - which they get quite rude about then hang up

oh and i a already with the telephone preference service so dont know where they got number from

jaysay · 25-02-2008, 17:39

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Originally Posted by keetah992000

we have had three in the last week - asking to speak to mrs M (partners surname) when i said i not that they asked to speak to the person named M passed on to my partner and it was just consumer sales questionnaire we have since gone through the same scenario but i have refused to pass them on as my partner works nights and i wont wake him - which they get quite rude about then hang up

oh and i a already with the telephone preference service so dont know where they got number from

If they ring again keetah just say you should not be ringing me, I bet you don't get to telling them your on the prefered callers list before they hang up

jambutty · 25-02-2008, 17:41

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I just had a phone call - well no, to be accurate I didn't have a phone call.

The phone rang. The caller asked to speak to Mrs. T............ I told them there was no Mrs T. There is a Miss T (in fact two of them but neither are here at the mo.) and I was about to add that I am Mrs T-H and ask did they want me or one of my daughters. But they just asked for Mrs T again so I said , "There is no Mrs. T" and was about to add that I am Mrs T-H but they hung up! Now I'm left wondering if it was something important and the caller was too ignorant to listen, or was it a sales call and the caller was to thick to listen to my reply.

I did try calling back in case it was important as the number didn't seem to be one of those pointless ones but the phone just rang and rang and no reply so don't know there's much else I can do.

It’s just a technique to get you curious and engage you in conversation. Or it is someone trying to be funny.

My response to all calls, even if they ask for me by name, is always, unless I recognise the caller, “Who’s speaking” and I wait for them to identify themselves before I utter another word.

shillelagh · 25-02-2008, 17:49

When i get the sales calls and ask to speak to Mrs S i just say Im sorry she died and then they so im so sorry and put the phone down ..... dont say like she died 2 yrs ago

Thats one way to get them off the phone quickly.

WillowTheWhisp · 25-02-2008, 17:56

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Originally Posted by WalkOnBRFC

Maybe if you had said this is Mrs T-H earlier they might have had a chance but they might have thought you were getting abit shirty with them because they had the wrong number? or they might have just presummed that Mrs T no longer lived in the property and you were a new women in the life of Mr T (not the Mr T but Mr T) therefore not the person they were looking for? Doesn't excuse them putting the phone down mind you

Well I did try to say all in the same sentence that there were two Miss Ts and one Mrs T-H but before I could even say it they'd hung up. Which was a bit daft. They could at least have listened and might have discovered that although they got the name wrong they had got the right person. I wasn't being shirty. I was very politely just trying to clarify who they really wanted. I could even have explained that I used to be Mrs T if they had given me half a chance.

panther · 25-02-2008, 18:12

everytime i get one of those calls, i just tell em its the lancashire mortary,

....they soon hang up

WalkOnBRFC · 25-02-2008, 20:16

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Originally Posted by panther

everytime i get one of those calls, i just tell em its the lancashire mortary,

....they soon hang up

Blackburn Crematorium, you kill um, we grill um

lancscat · 25-02-2008, 20:52

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Well I did try to say all in the same sentence that there were two Miss Ts and one Mrs T-H but before I could even say it they'd hung up. Which was a bit daft. They could at least have listened and might have discovered that although they got the name wrong they had got the right person. I wasn't being shirty. I was very politely just trying to clarify who they really wanted. I could even have explained that I used to be Mrs T if they had given me half a chance.

dont worry willow ive had several calls like this over the last two weeks.i think its a sales call they wouldnt let me explain either,i rang the number back and that just rang and rang.ive now switched on my answer machine

katex · 25-02-2008, 21:10

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Originally Posted by WalkOnBRFC

Blackburn Crematorium, you kill um, we grill um

LOL .. my son always answered the phone like this .. no matter who ('cept Accrington Crematorium of course)

Come on Willow, you know this was really a sales call .. you were just winding them up saying no Mrs. T., but I am Mrs. T-H ...

They probably had only so much knowledge of the English language and were reading from a call-card; the fact that you have a double-barreled name probably upset their dialogue ...