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Ha, this was a crazy story. One time I’m sitting at home. It was about 10:30 pm. For some reason I my cellphone didn’t ring but a message was recorded and I listened to it. What I heard was some guy’s voice saying he’s going to come to my house now and he has a huge knife. I got scared and went and locked up all my doors. I kept listening to the message and the guy was saying how he’s gonna cut me up into pieces and all this gruesome stuff. I was nearly shaking. It was dark outside and my parents were in a restaurant so I was home by myself. After I listened to the voicemail, I immediately deleted it. I was ready to crap my pants by now. So the guy calls me back again several minutes later. I picked up (because I didn’t know if it was him). Turns out it was a local radio station prank calling random people (I called the radio station before, I guess that’s how they got my number). So all I got out of it was a t-shirt and a dumb hat. After all that worrying and it wasn’t even worth it.
One of my friends jokingly claims that leaving voice mails is his shining moment and he’s not completely wrong in that statement. Before the beep has even ended he usually starts stringing together some convoluted story about pink dump trucks or stolen gardening equipment trying to get as many words as he can into it before running out of time. Probably the best voice mail I’ve ever gotten was from him and consisted of a song made completely with the word “bitch”. Before deleting it I recorded it to my phone and sent it to my computer. You can hear it and a few others at the site below.
http://www.purevolume.com/voicemailmayhem
I have 2 children from a previous marriage. They live full time with my current husband (who is in the process of adopting them) and I. My ex has nothing to do with them nor pays child support for our children. One day my ex calls up and leaves a message on our phone for my husband to step up and be a man.
A few years back, some girl gave my number to guys at the club instead of her real number. I ended up with a few messages from guys asking how I was doing, I looked great the other night, and hoping we could meet up again.
Sorry guys, I don’t swing that way.
Only USA residents over 18? It sure sucks to live in Belgium…
Sorry pdedecker….We have A LOT of regular readers and visitors internationally. Especially in Europe. This is our first contest. In the future we may consider opening it up to international readers as well. Despite the fact this is open only to residents of the US we really do apprecate ALL of our readers and visitors.
-Ashley
My wife received a message from a fellow calling from out of state. He seemed to confuse her with a girlfriend of a famous celebrity musician/TV personality with the same last name as ours. In the message, he warned her to tell this “celebrity” not to continue ripping off his music. The rest of the message continued in this vein. We found out the number, kept it and the message in case of trouble. That was several years ago and we have not heard from him since. That was the weirdest message that either of us has gotten.
i got a message from samuel L jackson telling me to go see snakes on a plane, yes, thats SNAKES ON A PLANE!
Weirdest voicemail ever would have to be the one I got from a seemingly drunk Russian guy who kept talking about his lunch meats.
He literally called, talked like he knew me AND that I was actually on the phone with him. He’d just start off the voicemail with the following, and think Russian accent AND drunkness: “yeah so you got the pastrami? good. i’ll be dur to pick it up laters.”
Best part of this whole voicemail is that its the honest to god truth! You can’t make this stuff up!
once i got a voicemail saying im coming over to do my laundry no one i knew
At first I just got this voicemail, continually from the same person, just saying “hello? hello?” When I answered it after several calls, he asks ME who I am! I told him he called me and he said, “Well, you gave me your number!” I never gave him my number, didn’t know him.
I got a voicemail about 2 years ago(which i still have) that goes like this…
“Hey Jason we stole a golf cart from the University golf couse and drove it back to Minneapolis. We were going to bring it by, but Rob wanted food so we took it though the McDonalds drive through. A cop arrested me and ‘Mondo but Rob ran. If he comes home tell him to put my McDonalds in the fridge, I’ll be back in the morning.”
If anyone wants to know the golf course and where we were are about 7-8 miles away, and yes they used the bus expressway between both campuses to traverse from St Paul
I had a “singing” message left on my business phone at a Private Women’s College early one morning serenading:
Me, your mama, and some other whore
Riding down the river on the Shithouse door,
Gotta tie my pecker to my leg, to my leg,
Gotta tie my pecker to my leg.
I was flabbergasted! After the shock wore off, I let everyone in the office listen. It was an ongoing joke for many years.
We are not here ,
were are not home,
please leave your message after the moan
I used to have Pepé Le Pew saying please leave a message … well, someone got a wrong number and loved it so much that they left 15 messages, all hilarious. A few were from the cat he was always chasing, some were from the lawyer representing the cat, a few from concerned friends of the cat, and one was from the cat’s therapist!
Last year I seen a neon green ball of light fall from the sky around midnight as I worked nights and I told a few of my coworkers after I came in my my break which I always sat in my car at that time. Well the next morning I had 3 different voice mails from some so called Aliens telling me that they are watching me at night and to stop going into my car for my workbreak and stay inside and hang with the working Aliens.
I often get phone calls for “Andy”, the guy who had my number before me. My favorite call for him was his grandma who left a voicemail that said, “Andy, this is your Grandma. Why does your voicemail message say someone else’s name? Are you trying to confuse your friends? You need to change it. Why on earth would you make a message with a name that’s not even yours? I have enough problems, you dont need to add to my running list. Tell your mother to call me. Love you.” I can only hope I dont lose my common sense as this woman clearly has.
jatt rules
he is born to rule
jatt punjbai
I only have a cell phone. and I frequently leave it at home/out of batteries/or off. One morning, I find my cell phone by my bed, and out of batteries. I plug it in and turn it on to find that I got voice mail over the night. It was not one or two, but it was seven voice mails from some lady thinking i was her brother-in-law and my wife was giving birth. The messages ran the gamut of “we’re taking her to the hostipal” to “where the * am I.”
Wow…i saw that i had a message waiting for me so i checked the Caller ID and it wasnt any number i recognized. So i was about to delete it thinking it was one of those telemarketers.
Well, i hit the wrong button and it started to play and unfortunately, ifi hang up, my phone will keep ringing until the voice message is done and i decide to save or delete it. So i listen and there’s nothing. Then BAM! HELLO, THIS IS A COURTESY CALL FROM TIME WARNER CABLE. Now, i was asusming it was a pre-recorded call but no, it was a live woman on the other end. She then went on to tell me (in the message mind you) about how much money i would save if i went with the All-In-One package. Then praised Time Warners service , Roadrunners ‘blazing speeds’, etc, etc. All-in-all, the message was about a minute long.
Bless the woman’s soul, i went into my local Time Warner the next day and upgraded to the All-In-One package
I received a voicemail message from “Tim” to meet him at the movies at the 9 o’clock showing instead of 7. Tim is my brother’s name and we had plans to see a 7 o’clock show. So I show up at 9 and my brother isn’t there. Some guy is standing outside, upset as I was because we were waiting for people and the movie had already started. So we ended up just chit-chatting. His name is Tim also, and my phone number was just one number different from his date’s. Apparently she and my brother made the 7 showing and were mad because they got “stood up” (neither actually met, but did go see the show alone and angrily pouted the entire time). We laughed about it, and still do - after almost 7 years of marriage. To think that we met because he left a message on the wrong phone LOL.
i got this just the other day … “hi (wrong person’s name from the same company) this is Scott from the Dodge dealer, we were able to get you financed on that Charger you test drove, like you said your credit score wasnt that great and those collections hurt your credit but since you make $46,000 we can work something out give me a call”
now all i have to do is watch the parking lot to see who the deadbeat is
Why is it that when people obviously have the wrong phone number they feel the need to leave a voicemail anyway? I clearly say my name before the voicemail prompt and I still get bizarre messages from very confused people. Two weeks ago for instance, I got a voicemail from a man who thought he was calling his friend ‘Jim’ about something he read in the newspaper…When he was leaving his phone number he forgot his area code and began talking for about 2 minutes to his wife in the background about ‘Jim’ and how he hopes that Jim gets a hotel next time he comes to visit instead of staying at their house because ‘Jim’ is very messy.(Good thing they didnt “really” leave Jim that message!!) Now, I am clearly not ‘Jim’ nor do I sound like a guy, so why would they go ahead and leave a message with me?
oops….sorry, that is my story above..I forgot to enter in my name and email address…. my message is the one about a message left for ‘Jim’
You were right! I am a Biatch.
I’m a Biatch that’s in heat.
So I am taking care business of right now which is why I didnt bother to answer.
Once I am done, like all dogs I will lie down, smell my self and go to sleep.
So since you thought I was a biatch then why are you calling me?!
Several years ago I responded to an article in the Wittenberg Door magazine that included the statement that a Christian Feminist is a Christian “woman who believes women are human”. My letter to the editor suggested a better definition as a Christian “person who believes women are human”, and was signed with “A Christian feminist,” and my obviously-male name. The day that was published, my phone rang at midnight, with a single-word message left: “Apostate!” followed by a hang-up.
I recently received a message that my newborn baby had a twin brother and that he was still in the hospital waiting to be picked up…….well, I know it sounds wierd to start with, that some woman had twins and left ONE of them there??!?!?! I don’t have kids nor have I ever been pregnant nor had any kids!!! A little freaky! Wrong number and stupid nurse I’m assuming.
my friend used to have a cell phone that was one number off from former NBA player George Gervin … he would get wrong numbers for “The Iceman” all the time , finally he just started answering them saying stuff like “of course The Iceman will be there, please add his good friend (my friends name) to the guest list as well” - the old Iceman shouldnt have relied on his cellphone number so much, i kind of used that as a lesson to watch where i used my #
Several years ago, my father had gone in for a doctor’s appointment. The doctor left my dad a message on the answering machine that I was the first to hear. He said, “This is Dr. Kavhorian. I’m calling to let [my dad] know that I’ve called the pharmacy with his prescription.”
As a stupid teen, I was horrified that my father was seeing Dr. Kevorkian to help him die. I put him on suicide watch for a week.
Everyone knows that when your call gets forwarded to voicemail from a cellphone, there is no one there but the machine. You record your message and you’re set. This is clear to everyone … except for say… my drunk friends.
A friend had called my cellphone while I was away and got my very friendly voicemail. He started leaving a message regarding the party. Halfway through his message, he must have heard a click noise on the line. He says “hello? Are you there?”, pauses a few seconds and says “I know you’re listening…” - Suffice to say, this is a saved VM I listen to whenever I’m feeling down!
The weirdest voicemail I ever received was from a private caller. I opened the voicemail to noises of ARRIBA ARRIBA ARRIBA! Then three girls, none of whose voices sounded familiar, started shouting UNO DOS TRES! UNO DOS TRES! Then there was lots of confused shouting about Tijuana and marijuana. Now, considering that none of my friends (a) tend to go to Tijuana or (b) do drugs or (c) really speak much Spanish, frankly… I can’t help but wonder whose voicemail those people ACTUALLY meant to reach. Needless to say, it was a really hilarious misfired message to receive.
I got like 3 voicemails from a lady going on in a loud angry voice in Spanish. I don’t speak Spanish so I took the last one to my neighbor to have her translate it to find out why this woman was so angry with me.
I played it and she started laughing and laughing.
“Okay,” I said, “Whats the joke?”
She told me this woman apparently thought she was talking to her gynecologist’s office and was complaining that the ointment that cost her like $100 still hadn’t cleared up her yeast infection after 5 days and the itching was driving her crazy…
If the doctor didn’t call back that day she was coming to the office to let him have it in person because her boyfriend wouldn’t have sex with her because he didn’t want to catch it and was threatening to go find another girl who was “clean”.
I wish i could have been in the waiting room when she showed up…