Friday OT #1 - Knock Three Times

[CoachHines3]

College- Legacy apartments 2012.


I was up in my room sleeping when someone came into my room and took my comforter off of me. I was drunk and was just kinda like, "WTF" but continued to sleep.

Woke up the next morning to find said comforter on the floor of my roommates room with an individual wrapped up in it that we did not know. We attempted to wake him up but he was clearly still drunk and once we got him awake he attempted to fight us because he didn't know where he was.

Turns out he was staying at the apartment right above ours but instead of the 5th floor he was on the 4th floor and never knew it. The apartments are laid out the same. Half our fault for not locking our door and half his fault for being a jackass.

 

[Cybone]

I have another one, sorta…

I moved from West Des Moines to Aspen, CO for a job. I initially rented an apartment a couple of blocks from the office in Aspen. My bedroom window faced the alley and the trash bins were kept in the alleyway.

2:00 AM on a Saturday in the late summer, I get awoken by a loud crashing and ruckus from the alleyway. I groggily yell out my window to shut the F up. I figured it was just some drunks trying to make it home. The noice and crashing sounds kept getting louder. I jumped out of bed, ran out side to tell those drunks to get the F out of there. Except, the culprit wasn’t a couple of drunks, but instead, a full grown and large black bear. I apologized quickly and ran into apartment.

 

[stormchaser2014]

I received a few hard pounding knocks on the door of my house a few years ago in the middle of the day. I open it up and say hello. A guy around sixty just stares at me and says "soooooo....." and I look at him and say "who are you, and what do you want?" He angrily says "are you serious? Rent! I want my rent money, now!" I wasn't prepared for that and snapped back, "I've owned this house for five ****ing years, and you have five ****ing seconds to get off my property." He opened his mouth but no words came out, and something in his head clicked. He turned around and walked away.

He came back a few minutes later with a check from our neighbors house which he owned, and he sheepishly apologized. He said he was lucky I didn't knock his teeth out and he said I looked like I was close to doing so. Offered to have his son mow my yard for the summer! I declined.

 

[Clone Head]

I was also going to suggest strange phone calls as a Friday OT, so I have been thinking about a few for a long time.

While at Iowa State I was dating a girl who was very well built, to say she was top heavy may have been an understatement. One afternoon out of the blue she calls me and asks, “did you steal my underwear?” I responded “No, why would you think I would ever do such a thing?” She explained she was doing her laundry and put her clothes in the apartment complex’s dryer. When she went to retrieve her dry clothes, her panties and bra’s were missing. Even 50 years later I still chuckle about receiving that phone call.

A few years later (late 1970’s) I received a phone call from a co-worker asking me if I wanted to buy her Ferrari. She said she and her husband could make me a great deal on it, like $30k. I politely said no and the next day I compared notes with numerous other co-workers and everybody received a similar phone call. The husband was associated with the Iowa MBA program and did photography work as a side job. Turns out he was taking photos of female customers as they were changing their clothes in a dressing room. He was sued and owed $10k each to 2 different gals, selling the Ferrari was to cover his legal fees and payments to the two gals. One of the gals testified that as she was undressing she heard the click of a camera shutter. She decided to expose her breast and again heard the distinctive sound of the camera shutter clicking

 

[khardbored]

My 1st cell phone number (circa 2005 or so) must have belonged to the owner of an asphalt paving company before I got the number. I got probably 5-10 calls in the 1st couple years I had it asking if I still did paving work, how much for a load of asphalt, etc.

My name is identical to a local farmer, even though I'm a city slicker. Back when we had a house phone, I'd get his calls a couple times per year. Invites to ag shows, "your bull got out," etc.

 

[scyclonekid]

3 doors down?

 

[Angie]

3 doors down?

I didn't know that they had a song named this! I was thinking of the terrible Tony Orlando and Dawn song!

 

[BCClone]

My 1st cell phone number (circa 2005 or so) must have belonged to the owner of an asphalt paving company before I got the number. I got probably 5-10 calls in the 1st couple years I had it asking if I still did paving work, how much for a load of asphalt, etc.

My name is identical to a local farmer, even though I'm a city slicker. Back when we had a house phone, I'd get his calls a couple times per year. Invites to ag shows, "your bull got out," etc.

I get people who try to tell me that my number was someone else's. Yeah, right. 1) I got my number in 1995 so I've had it awhile 2) When I got my cell phone number is was when cell phones had specific numbers that were different than land lines and they had just started issuing them 3) The area code changed since I've had it so noone had this number before since it was brand new even after I got my number last 7 numbers originally.

My oldest got his phone around 13. He would get people inviting him to go out drinking all the time. I finally had to text back that this was my 13 year olds son's number so please stop inviting him to the bar and drunk dialing him.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I didn't know that they had a song named this! I was thinking of the terrible Tony Orlando and Dawn song!

Oh Angie, you're breaking my heart. That went all the way to Billboard's #1!

 

[ScottyP]

I've had a few instances of getting a call with the caller asking for somebody else. I'll tell them they have have the wrong number and they will deny it or disagree with me.

Me-"sorry, you have the wrong number"
Caller - "No, I have the right number, may I please speak to *******?"

 

[Angie]

Oh Angie, you're breaking my heart. That went all the way to Billboard's #1!

So did "Come On Eileen" and some stuff from Creed...

 

[ImJustKCClone]

So did "Come On Eileen" and some stuff from Creed...

In all honesty, I hate that song. Dude's a stalker!

 

[Farnsworth]

When I was in school everyone had nicknames, and that's what you put in your phone. I had two acquaintances in mine, one names like stalker girl, the other like crazy stalker.

One was actually pretty cool so I invited her to a party at our apartment, well I text the wrong one who showed up, and then proceeded to lock herself in my bedroom calling people saying we wouldn't let her out.

I was shocked to see her because it had been years since I last saw her, but the name still fit well.

 

[Sousaclone]

My 1st cell phone number (circa 2005 or so) must have belonged to the owner of an asphalt paving company before I got the number. I got probably 5-10 calls in the 1st couple years I had it asking if I still did paving work, how much for a load of asphalt, etc.

My name is identical to a local farmer, even though I'm a city slicker. Back when we had a house phone, I'd get his calls a couple times per year. Invites to ag shows, "your bull got out," etc.

When my parents first got married and were living in an apartment in Virginia (1978?), their phone number was one off from the local school's cafeteria and the routinely had people calling up asking what the lunch menu was for that day or the next day. Apparently it got to the point that my Mom actually got a weekly/monthly copy of the school lunch menu and kept it above the phone because it was often faster to just respond that way than deal with the you've got a wrong number BS.