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This story involves a small-town resident, a pizza restaurant, and a series of unintended consequences that took place in 2007 or 2008. The incident became a humorous Reddit post and captured the attention of many readers worldwide. This article dives into the captivating story of how a simple phone number mix-up turned into a comedy of errors, with pizza orders being mistakenly placed on an unsuspecting homeowner’s answering machine.
The story unfolds in a small town where cell phone coverage was unreliable, leading many residents, including the OP to rely on traditional landlines. OP, had a landline complete with an answering machine. One day upon returning home, OP discovered numerous messages on their answering machine.
Much to OP’s surprise, the messages were from people calling to place pizza orders. It turned out that a regional pizza restaurant had printed mass junk mail fliers with discounts and OP’s phone numbers on them. The pizza restaurant’s number was strikingly similar to OP’s, with the only difference being the last two digits: John’s number was xxx-xxx-4442, while the pizza restaurant’s number was 4422.
Keep on scrolling down to read the actual Reddit post and we will see you at the end of the article.
1. A pizza place printed OP’s phone number on their coupons keep on scrolling down to find out what happened next
2. OP lived in a small town and his house had really bad cell phone coverage at the time
3. One day OP came home to find several phone calls for a regional pizza restaurant on his answering machine
4. OP called the pizza place and told them what had happened
5. OP says that h got around 80 phone calls that night and he changed the outgoing message on his answering machine to give callers the correct number
6. OP says this went on for almost two weeks
7. They just gave away their credit card details?
8. OP made at least 20 calls like that
9. Same thing happened to this Redditor’s buddy and this is what he did
10. This Redditor’s grandmother has a number similar to a local chain pizza place
11. It would have been hilarious if he had given all of them the exact same tee time lol
12. A local pizza place had the same phone number as OP’s house just minus the last number and this is how he dealt with the wrong numbers
13. Exactly that’s the only way
14. This Redditor would just tell them that the health department closed them down lmao
15. If OP actually had done that it would have been hilarious lol
16. The same thing happened to this Redditor’s parents when he was growing up
17. This Redditor is embarrassed by the number of accidental 911 calls that came from his house due to careless misdialing
18. He sold his phone number and got free pizza for life? Lucky.
19. This Redditor asked how much was the phone number for
20. She doesn’t remember the details on that but she thinks that it was a decent amount
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