My cellphone rang, its screen showed an unidentified number. I answered it anyway,
Me : “Hello.”
Caller : “Hello… Anne?”
Alright stop. Say, you’re calling up a girl (or a woman) whose name is Anne… and a male voice (who obviously isn’t “Anne”) answered. Who do you reckon the person that answered the phone could be?
a) Anne?
b) Anne feigning a male voice?
c) Anne’s brother, whose name’s also Anne?
d) NOT ANNE?
If you chose anything other than D, you have a problem. Just like this caller.
Me : “This is obviously NOT Anne. This is Michael. I think you may have called the wrong number.”
Caller : [pause for about 3 - 4 seconds] “Errrr… I think I called the wrong number…”
DUHHHHH!
[come think of it, there's a possibility that the caller may be looking for a drag queen whose name is Anne. And I fucking sounded like his drag queen friend! Kanneh!!]
I choose “e” – The caller thinks that Anne is actually a male pretending to be “Anne” to get perverted males to call him in order to earn Hotlink Reward Points.
Last time I used “xxx is busy blowing and can’t talk right now. May I take a message?”
real incident : a lady fren received a call on hse phone asking to speak to e.g. ah lim..my friend cheekily replied he is bathing who r u, i am his girlfriend..the other party was mad..and screamed obscenities…my fren then realized it was no laughing matter but the other party hung up. No way to explain for my fren or the poor ah lim when he goes home.
You should have pretended to be Anne & get Hotlink Reward Points man….. That is if you use Hotlink la…
If not, you should have just pretended to be Anne just to get her pissed off…and to entertain yourself….That way this post could have been much longer!
Would appreciate if you could practice this for the next round of wrong calls! Then tell us about it!
Neh, now also must be careful with calls. This Hitz.fm likes to play pranks and say GOTCHA!
arkane – If that’s the case, do you think his reaction should aptly be “Anne?” ? It was really stupid I tell you.
doc – The problem is, he thought I was Anne. -__-’
bengbeng – That’s why ler, you people shouldn’t mess around with stuffs like this. Poor Ah Lim…
Faizal – Hey, what’s with this Maxis Reward Point thingy aa?
primrose – Oh is it? I haven’t tuned in to Hitz ever since Fly Guy left the station…
Mike, u din watch the maxis advert playing regularly on tv ? girl takes bf to meet parents. bf’s h/p rings and he says “hold on…..” then swtiches his voice to a female pitch “hello ? this is mary…..” then proceeds to dupe the poor sucker at the other end of the line into having a long chat by pretending to be a female so that he could earn the hotlink reward points.
Hotlink has come up with this scheme where they reward you with points for receiving calls. the first of it’s kind in the country.
there is option e – anne’s friend (you) is answering her phone for her because she’s busy / not around to pick up the call. i do that all the time for my dad. if people assumed they got the wrong number each time i pick up the phone for my dad, i have to answer that call several times before they have the common sense to ask for my dad instead of mumbling every time previously, “oh, wrong number, sorry” and before i can ask who they’re looking for, hangs up.
actually horrrr, option D covered all the possibilities you guys mentioned – be it someone else who answered or whoever that attempted to impersonate her.
Anne. Also short for kanneh, as you pointed out. ;)
At least u didn’t get hit on. There are times when people who called the wrong number to my number then try to be sleazy somemore. *PUKE*
er, hardly a guy get hit on the phone, normally the girls mar, especially the voice is sweet… got echo like that hehe! michael why you always get this kind of call? wrong number etc. :P
I think I saw michael’s number on the toilet wall inside Company X
:P
shar – oh did you? call me please, i want to subscribe that pay-per-view hentai titty show…