And then describes some of the … interesting … calls and texts that she gets that are intended for Musk.
When we lived in Phoenix, my cell phone number was very close to the nonemergency phone number for the Seattle police department. (Phoenix’ area code is 602, Seattle is 206, other than that it was the same number). It wasn’t unusual to get odd calls, especially from drunk or angry or drunk and angry people. But my husband still teases me about his favorite of all time.
Random caller: I have requested copies of {a report} three times now! I still don’t have those copies… (goes off on rant)
Me: Oh, I’m sorry. You have the wrong number, if you just dial
RC (interrupts me): Stop with the excuses! Every time I call someone tells me to talk to someone else!!! You are going to help me with this.
Me: I can’t, but if you just dial
RC: launches into obscenity laced rant.
I hang up.
2 minutes later, same guy calls back from a different number. Conversation starts the same way. I hang up again.
2 minutes later, same guy calls back from a different number. Same thing. I keep trying to explain he’s dialed the cell phone of a CPA in Phoenix and I’m trying to help him by telling him the right number, but he can’t even hear me, he’s yelling so loudly. I hang up again.
2 minutes later, same guy. Starts with “I have had enough! Get me your supervisor now!!!” I start laughing so hard, I drop my phone, breaking it.
DH still thinks the idea of anyone supervising me is funny. :-/
Our old phone number belonged to a family that apparently had many issues with collection agencies. We were getting calls for them nearly 20 years after we had the phone number.
I’ve been calling Jenny at 867-5309 for 30+ years hoping she’ll answer ?
ROTFLOL @BmacNJ!
Once upon a time my number must have been very similar to the number of a provider of sexual services. I used to get calls at all hours of the night asking what’s available and for how much.
That woman should get a new phone number. She’s nuts to keep putting up with it – and to nicely respond to everyone.
I’ve had my current phone number for 25+ years. I rarely get calls for a local deli, but many in the early years. I’d give people the delis number, but then they’d call me again.
Some people just keep hitting redial and expect a different result. 
My college dorm landline phone was one number different from a local pizza place. We got calls constantly. We begged the phone company to change our number but they wouldn’t.
If someone called, we were polite and gave them the correct number. But some folks just called our number again?♀️. When that happened (voice sounded the same and call came very quickly), we just took the order. It’s amazing, but we never got a call complaining that the order hadn’t been received. Guess those went to the pizza place.
Fun fact…two years later, I worked at that pizza place. It was one of the best jobs I ever had. The owners also owned several bars, and that’s where I bartended. That was fun too. Never told them about the orders we took for pizza.
The phone number for my husband’s Android smart watch apparently was formerly that of a family with school-aged kids. The watch gets the automated calls from the school! He wasn’t even sure what school it was. The calls came in as “HELLO MATADORS!! And on from there…”. He finally did the research and figured out what area school was the Matadors and got himself removed.
our number also belonged to a deadbeat. But H also shares a name with a guy in town who is also a deadbeat. We used to get plenty of not good calls from people looking for him, including the IRS and some very angry guy in Canada who claimed he flew up there and slept with his wife. (My H has never traveled by himself since we were married, so I knew it wasn’t him 
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Decades ago my sister and BIL inherited the number of a local theater. People would call and ask what was playing. They were polite the first time, but with repeat calls they would just make up stuff. He was good enough that he could rattle off a bunch of random movies and times. Thanks for the memory!
My office toll-free number is apparently just close enough to LifeLock’s toll-free number that I get a mouth breather calling me nearly daily, often from back east (I’m west coast) at 3-4-5-6AM. Yep, the angry ones are quite interesting. I used to take my time and give them correct info, now I just tell them they misdialed and hang up.
I also have the privilege of paying for those calls since they are on my toll-free line. I’m close to getting rid of that, who worries about long distance in this day & age?
In high school, a friend on mine and her new stepsister (also in my class) got a new phone. It was a big deal to have a phone in high school and usually the only ones who had a 'kids phone were the kids of doctors. Unfortunately, the number was xxx-0133 and time and temperature was xxx-0123. They’d get calls in the middle of the night asking the time and temp. You can imagine what their answer was at 2:51 am when it was 25 below outside.
As a graduate student my office phone number was one digit different to KFC. Somebody phoned asking for advice about vegetarian options. I suggested they may prefer another restaurant, one without a named meat source in the name. The caller was very offended …
Our number was one digit off from a local Chinese carryout restaurant. We would very rarely get a call for the restaurant. When we started to get more frequent calls I traced the problem to a local hotel who had incorrectly printed our phone number as the restaurant’s in their list of local restaurants for their guests.
Our home number, which we have had for 33 years, is one digit different than our Rabbi’s private office number, We have received a couple of calls over the years, and I believe he said he go one for us! How many people can remember their Rabbi’s private number? 