Wrong Number

Everyone must have received or made a call and in return the response is 'Sorry wrong number'. I remember around 10-15 years ago when there were very few landlines, at that time this was a common thing you are trying to reach someone and getting connected to someone else.

Many people did it for fun. Even I with my cousins and friends did it. Take a yellow page phone directory look for some interesting name or number and call the person. Once my cousins gave a call to someone and said 'There is fire in our house. Our cooking gas is burning'. Once a kid had made a call and was saying 'Ek khoka bhej dena peeple ke padh ke neeche'. With one such wrong number I had become friend but then our house changed and number changed and we lost touch.

Many a times it was irritating when once the person was told that you have called on a wrong number but he/she was still hanging up and explaining this is the number he/she was given. I really didn’t understand what was the fun in calling and talking to someone whom one doesn’t know. But then if the other person is interested then there is no problem in hanging up and raising his/her bill. Getting blank calls was also one of the irritating thing that too at 1 o'clock at the night.

Once our phone had become a telephone exchange. Our phone would ring even when someone else was getting a call in our area and if interested one could hear some interesting conversations of 2 aunties discussing about the rates of food, a new recipe or some household stuff.

Maybe the problem of wrong number was common then because at that time there were no mobile phones to store numbers like we can do today. Thanks to the mobile phone where we can save the number and avoid calling the wrong person. But even today some people do make calls to wrong number. Maybe one can make a phone-a-friend through these wrong numbers; else make a complain if the person is disgusting. What will you do if you get a call from a wrong number? :)