Suggestions for a wind-up

[Deleted member 6183]

My home phone number is one digit away from the village taxi firm's number.
My landline diverts to my mobile for business reasons.

It hasn't happened for a while but the weekend (so far) I have received two calls chasing tardy taxis.
During sociable hours I don't really mind that much, people make mistakes.
However, when I try and explain that they have mis-dialled most of these errant callers talk over me and demand to know how soon the car will be with them, generally they are posh, drunk and rude.

So, revenge, I'm looking for ways to wind up these arrogant ones. I have no issues with the ones who call and listen when I explain that they have mis-dialled but the posh arrogant ones are in desperate need of a juicy comeuppance.

I have done the chirpy redial of missed calls from 3am at 7am and, although satisfying, found that it's the younger and apologetic callers who do this.

I have no intention to cause hardship for the taxi firm, I use them myself and it's not their fault that their number is so close to mine.

 

[TheFoX]

Just tell the drunk posh idiots that the taxi driver drove off after he had clocked how drunk the drunk actually was, and didn't want to have to disinfect his cab.

Or say to the drunk, 'He can see you. Why can't you see him?'.

 

[markjay]

Try this:

"Police and Fire Brigade would not let the driver get into your street because of the evacuation"

 

[moonloops]

Tell them they are on the county wide ban list and that they will never get a taxi again.

 

[renault12ts]

Pick them up...and take a £50...they'll never know.

 

[markjay]

Pick them up...and take a £50...they'll never know.

....or reach an agreement with a rival taxi company and just collect your commission without ever leaving your house.

 

[Meldrew2]

Printing stickers advertising their phone numbers as a gay escort agency would be completely wrong and unacceptable.

So whatever you do, don't do that. *

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* unless you really want to...

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Pick them up...and take a £50...they'll never know.

The first time that it happened I very nearly did this.

7PM and I was leaving home to pick up my mate about 5 miles away, phone rang as I was leaving and some drunk posh fella starts demanding a taxi from a local pub, I tried to explain that he had dialled the wrong number but he was having none of it.
I was most tempted to pick him up, take him up to my mate's house and boot him out (5 miles or more from where he wanted to be) but I bottled it.

I have to be careful, I know the taxi boys well and my home number diverts to my mobile which has my business voicemail so I don't want and retribution on a business level.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Printing stickers advertising their phone numbers as a gay escort agency would be completely wrong and unacceptable.

So whatever you do, don't do that. *

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* unless you really want to...

The perfect crime.

 

[markjay]

The perfect crime.

It isn't a crime any more

 

[Deleted member 6183]

It isn't a crime any more

I'm happy about that so long as it's not made compulsory.

 

[TheFoX]

My home phone number is one digit away from the village taxi firm's number.
My landline diverts to my mobile for business reasons.

The real question is how many of your friends are calling the taxi cab by mistake, expecting you to answer?

 

[developer]

To avoid speaking to those that need some come up 'em (I think that's what you said), you could let all calls go to answering machine with a message about the taxi rank number.

It won't stop the phone ringing, but should help prevent you having to deal with them personally.

Make sure your nearest and dearest have your mobile for general chit chat and emergencies.

Won't satisfy your desire for a wind up though.

 

[Stratman]

I'm in the same situation with what I now call London Reading Rugby Club

The difference is my callers aren't steaming drunk.

 

[moonloops]

Landlines - how quaint

 

[Steve320]

To avoid speaking to those that need some come up 'em

I don't think he said that!?!

Predictive text. Comeuppance?

 

[Druk]

My home phone number is one digit away from the village taxi firm's number.

Exactly our problem.

1. Tell the caller the taxis are really busy but you'll try your absolute best to get one there in an hour.

2. Get a BT Call Guardian phone. If their number isn't in your phone it simply blocks the call. Best bit of kit we ever bought.

 

[TheFoX]

2. Get a BT Call Guardian phone. If their number isn't in your phone it simply blocks the call. Best bit of kit we ever bought.

Same here. We have two handsets plus a standard phone in the kitchen for when we have power outages, which happen quite often in the country, and it is amazing how the kitchen phone rings once when the Guardian intercepts an incoming call, then doesn't ring again as the person on the other end decides not to leave any calling details.

 

[John]

I heard about a similar device on something a while ago.

I can't see how they can bypass it really...

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Exactly our problem.

Get a BT Call Guardian phone. If their number isn't in your phone it simply blocks the call. Best bit of kit we ever bought.

Won't work for me as I use the landline for business so actively encourage unknown numbers.

I do use 'TrueCaller' on my mobile which allows me to block scam calls.