Would the person calling my house every night at strange hours from a private number but fails to leave a message please find something to do with your life. I got a theory about you private number people. You are likely one of those annoying people that everyone screens and avoids when they call. You have counteracted this by asking your service provider for a private/unlisted number. This is so that you can continue to harass and bug the shit out of people without them knowing it’s you like a little sneak. Sometimes, I’ll answer it. Then I always hear a voice I do NOT want to hear. I’d rather chew my arm off than talk to the person so I make up an excuse and hang up. You annoyances never leave a message, either. You just wake us up out of a dead sleep with your incessant ringing; finally awake now and not able to fall back asleep. I am left wondering…who could that be? When I know very well it was an annoying person. —private numbers are for assholes
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2015.
The scam and “special offer” people use automated dialers. It keeps calling numbers until someone picks up and then transfers the call to one of their attendants. If nobody is available on their end you hear silence.
I simply don’t pick up the phone if a name I recognize isn’t displayed.
I am surprised that you would get calls at night though. I’ve never gotten one after 10 p.m.
How many annoying people do you have calling you? How did they get your number? I have a lot of weird numbers calling me but most of them are scammers, I only answer if I’m in the mood to mess with them.
I used to get calls for the Sushi House; took orders for them…
Turn your ringer off when you go to bed. Why are you letting anyone interrupt sleep time?
Oceanchick, many of us would prefer to be available to be reached in case there’s a family emergency late at night. I’d answer it once, find out who it is, then remind them of what time it is, that the only reason my phone should be ringing at that hour is to inform me that a family member or close friend is either dead or dying and that I will be calling the police if they persist in calling to annoy or harass me. The CRA scam bastards will simply be verbally abused for an hour an a half.
Sadly the robo-calling machine does not read the Coast LTWWB section. Or care.