I Kinda Want To Crawl Into A Hole After Reading These 19 Hysterically Cringeworthy Wrong Number Stories That Actually Happened To People

If you've been connected the net lately, you've prooooobably heard astir *that* communicative successful The Atlantic from past week. You know, the 1 called "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans." That one.

Well, of course, the communicative has gone viral, and galore of america are still successful disbelief astir the full situation. So I thought I'd brighten the temper by compiling a database of different "wrong number" substance stories — ones that are little tense and much amusive for america to read.

So without further ado, present are immoderate ace entertaining (and kinda cringe-worthy) incorrect fig substance stories, coming to you from this Reddit thread from not excessively agelong ago:

1. "I got a telephone astatine similar 6 a.m., and I was inactive sleeping, truthful I benignant of didn’t recognize what was happening — but this idiosyncratic was SO EXCITED to archer maine that they got a caller job. They recognized I was inactive fractional asleep, truthful they said they’d telephone maine backmost later, and said 'I emotion you.' I conscionable said 'I emotion you too, I'm gladsome you got the job.' I perfectly did not cognize that idiosyncratic and they ne'er called back, but I deliberation of that telephone each the time."

—boobookittyfuck28

2. "Got a telephone from a authorities bureau — FDA, maybe? Anyway, the archetypal happening the woman says to maine is, 'We got a telephone that you person a occupation with goats?' I'm similar 'No, sorry, incorrect number.' 'Are you definite you don't person a goat problem?' 'Nope.' 'OK, thanks, atrocious astir the confusion.'"

—Thac0_is_Zero

3. "An aged person of excavation got a incorrect fig substance from a parent responding to an advertisement astir a utilized electrical wheelchair for her child. For immoderate reason, helium utilized got a batch of incorrect fig texts. He would usually person a small amusive with the sender, but this time, helium didn't messiness with her. He posted it connected societal media and asked if anyone knew wherever to find a utilized electrical wheelchair. The parent couldn't spend a caller one. After a mates days of nary luck, anonymous donors bought and donated to them a brand-new electrical wheelchair."

"More heartwarming than strange, but a bully communicative either way."

—Buckle_Sandwich

4. "Her: 'Are you picking the boys up Friday?' Me: 'Yes, wherefore wouldn't I be?' Her: 'You said you weren't sure.' Me: 'No, I didn't...wait, who is this?' Her: 'Ashley.' Me: 'Yeah, you person the incorrect number. Me and my kids are connected the aforesaid docket arsenic you and your ex, though. This is weird.'"

"It went connected a small longer, I think, but that was a summary of it. We were some argumentative erstwhile we thought we were talking to our exes, and past we had a laughter astir it."

—Odinshanks

5. "I learned my acquisition astir going on with a alien who's texting my telephone reasoning I’m idiosyncratic else. It's each amusive and games until they nonstop you an unsolicited closeup of their butthole and you damn adjacent spit your meal retired each implicit the table."

—MountainBikerDude

6. "Years ago, portion I was surviving astatine home, I got a telephone enactment for my machine (yeah, I'm old), but besides had a telephone connected to it, due to the fact that phones are cheap. My parents' country was each the mode crossed the location and upstairs, truthful they'd telephone maine sometimes alternatively of walking each that way. One day, successful our sleepy small town, immoderate feline killed his wife, changeable his kid, and drove into municipality shooting astatine random radical and buildings. He was killed successful a shootout with constabulary astatine the main intersection successful town. He happened to person the aforesaid archetypal sanction arsenic me. At immoderate constituent during the investigation, they contacted my mom, due to the fact that she'd made a telephone to his location soon earlier helium went connected his rampage."

"As it turns out, his telephone fig was the aforesaid arsenic mine, but with the past 2 digits reversed. My ma called him that day, and conscionable said 'Get up here, I request help.' Then she hung up. 

Since I ne'er showed up, she got my member to assistance her with immoderate it was, and forgot astir it until the cops showed up asking however she knew the brainsick guy."

—Wadsworth_McStumpy

7. "A representation was sent to maine from a radical of numbers I’d ne'er seen before. I opened the connection and it was photograph of a achromatic household lasting astir a casket. There was a motion down the casket that work 'we’ll miss you, Aunt Sandy.' It gave maine the chills, but I had nary thought what to say; I had nary thought who they were. Later that night, idiosyncratic from that radical texted, 'You didn’t amusement up. The slightest you could bash is substance your condolences to your family.'"

"I went downstairs, took a selfie with my achromatic gramps and Guatemalan grandma and said 'My condolences, but I bash judge you person the incorrect number.'

One idiosyncratic sent a azygous 😂 emoji and different idiosyncratic replied 'I AM SO SORRY.'

Never heard from them again. Hope they were capable to find immoderate household subordinate that played ceremonial hooky though."

—Responsible-Stay-826

8. "I was playing poker with my boys a fewer years back. We decorativeness up astir 1 a.m., and my telephone rings. A pistillate yells, 'YOUR SON HAS BEEN SENDING NUDE PICTURES TO MY DAUGHTER AND THIS NEEDS TO STOP RIGHT NOW!'"

"I reply, 'Ma'am, my lad is 8 years old. if he's sending bare pictures to your daughter, we some person a large occupation connected our hands.

Realizing it's not the close number, she says, 'OMG, I'm truthful sorry, I got the incorrect number.

I say, 'Yeah, I figured arsenic much. Good luck with getting that each sorted out.'

I laughed truthful hard aft I hung up. This is wherefore I reply immoderate telephone that comes to my phone. I could've missed retired connected this gem."

—nitraw

9. "I had a incorrect fig substance from a ft fetish guy, complementing my soles. But then, I ended up learning a batch astir that fetish life. I person incredibly wide feet, which I learned was precise marketable."

—hellothere42069

10. "I erstwhile got a telephone from a section ceremonial location telling maine that each the arrangements for someone’s ceremonial had been made. That idiosyncratic had the aforesaid archetypal sanction arsenic my grandfather. I was precise confused and amazed — wherefore was I uncovering this retired done a ceremonial location and not my ain family? Why did they telephone maine to fto maine cognize everything was done alternatively of my parents? How did they adjacent get my telephone number? I had truthful galore questions, I didn’t adjacent cognize wherever to start. I was successful a spot of shock."

"After a mates minutes, the idiosyncratic I was talking to noticed my disorder and either said helium had spoken with maine before, oregon idiosyncratic other had fixed him my fig arsenic an alternate fig to call. I past said I did not adjacent cognize my gramps died. We were present some confused astatine this point, truthful helium asked if my sanction was [my archetypal name]. To which I said yes, adding to the ever-increasing magnitude of disorder betwixt the 2 of us.

Finally, helium mentioned the deceased person’s past name, and I realized we’re not talking astir the aforesaid person. Everything was each conscionable a brainsick coincidence. When I got disconnected the phone, I kept shaking, truthful I had to halt for a fewer minutes and calm myself down. The telephone log connected my telephone had the call, truthful I cognize it was real, but it felt similar specified a bizarre dream. To this day, that telephone inactive benignant of creeps maine out."

—Daves_no_here

11. "At astir 2 a.m., my telephone rang. When I said hello, a pistillate said, 'Who the hellhole is this?' I was not successful the temper and said, 'Who the hellhole is THIS?' She said, 'Bitch, I don't cognize who you are, but if you don't enactment Rodney connected the telephone now, I volition bushed your ass!'"

"I hung up. She instantly called backmost and earlier I could accidental hullo she said, 'You archer Rodney helium amended bring his atrocious ass home!' and hung up.

I felt atrocious for Rodney."

—Wide_Ocelot

12. "Back successful the day, erstwhile you moved houses, British Telecom would permission you with the aforesaid fig arsenic the erstwhile owner. As a result, erstwhile we bought a location we had a batch of calls meant for the erstwhile owner, Susan. After astir a twelvemonth later, the calls had petered out, until 1 Sunday greeting I answered a telephone from a cheery-sounding aged beloved who asked if Susan was there."

"'Oh, I'm sorry, Susan doesn't unrecorded present anymore.'

She sounded confused. 'How agelong has she been gone?'

'Well, we've lived present a year, and I deliberation the location had been vacant for a mates of months earlier that...'

The aged duck had shifted from confused to panicked now: 'But I lone spoke to her past week!'

It reminded maine of those aged shade tales that extremity with an aged husbandman saying thing similar 'There's been nary 1 surviving determination these past 50 years.'

It took a small portion to calm her down sufficiently to find retired she had dialed the incorrect fig and was aft an wholly antithetic Susan."

—Yhardvaark

13. "I called a incorrect fig erstwhile I was successful precocious school, and a teen miss answered. We rapidly realized it was a incorrect number, but started having a small amusive banter. She seemed truly chill and funny, truthful we kept talking. I asked her what she was doing and she said she was watching O. J. Simpson successful a constabulary car pursuit connected TV. I turned it connected excessively and unneurotic we talked for an hr and watched the dilatory velocity pursuit of O. J. successful the backmost of the achromatic Bronco."

"At the end, we laughed that we had shared that unneurotic and past said goodbye. I don't retrieve her sanction oregon anything, but it was a truly memorable night."

—Imaginary_Worth682

14. "Went to dial my parents house. Accidentally dialled my ex-girlfriend's house. Normally that wouldn’t beryllium excessively weird, but for the information that I hadn’t dialled that fig oregon seen her successful implicit 25 years. I person nary thought however I inactive knew oregon remembered that number. I heard her parent reply and I had realized what I'd done. I hung up the telephone praying she didn’t person caller ID that showed the name."

—zabrakwith

15. "I was location for Christmas interruption astir 2014, and ended up chilling downtown with a fewer buddies. While hanging out, I received a radical substance with a clump of numbers I didn't recognize. The connection was a radical photograph with radical who were evidently astatine a Christmas party. I made the lone logical prime and instantly sent a selfie backmost with the connection 'wrong number.'The remainder of the radical successful this substance perfectly loved this and responded with 'hahaha's and 'you're kinda cute,' until 1 idiosyncratic said, 'You should travel to our Christmas party!' It was lone a fewer blocks distant from wherever I was hanging out, truthful I near my friends and went to the party."

"I recovered the apartment, walked in, and had a record-scratch infinitesimal similar from a cheesy '90s movie. Everyone went soundless and stared astatine me: I was the lone achromatic idiosyncratic there. After a fewer seconds, the big shattered the soundlessness with the shout: 'It’s wrong-number guy!'

We ended up doing shots and partying for the adjacent fewer hours! By acold the BEST incorrect fig acquisition ever!"

—monty2

16. "I got a telephone 1 time. Answered it and it sounded similar a young kid connected the different end: 'Dad?' I replied 'Absolutely not' and hung up."

—SSPeteCarroll

17. "Before mobile phones. Ring...ring...ring. Me: 'Hello?' Caller: 'Is Laura there?' Me: 'Sorry, pal. Think you've got the incorrect number.' Caller: 'Please...I conscionable request to talk to her!' Me: 'Seriously. It's a incorrect number! I don't cognize a Laura.' Caller: 'You're him, aren't you? Tell her I'll ever emotion her.'"

"Then, the caller hangs up the phone. Poor guy."

—Rik78

18. "Bought a compartment telephone wherever you wage by the month. Basically a burner phone, but I lone had that one. I bought it astatine a Best Buy erstwhile I was 3 hours distant from home. Two days later, I get a random substance from a person connected the caller number. I didn't springiness anyone my caller fig yet."

"Turns out, the fig I had was a precocious aged fig from a communal friend. So each my friends had my fig already. Just had to update the name. Weird shit."

—newtizzle

19. "A person of excavation got a substance 1 time that simply said 'Dan, I burnt the chicken.' Alongside a representation of an astir comically immense occurrence with a burnt chickenhearted successful the center, shoved into a cookware that was mode excessively small. This was followed by a watercourse of progressively panicked texts astir the chicken."

—Chancellor_Valorum82

What's your worst "wrong number" substance story? Don't beryllium shy — archer maine successful the comments below!