{"id":252639,"date":"2023-06-03T03:30:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T03:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defused.com\/?p=252639"},"modified":"2023-06-03T03:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T03:30:46","slug":"pizza-hut-mix-up-a-tale-of-prank-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defused.com\/pizza-hut-mix-up-a-tale-of-prank-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pizza Hut Mix-Up A Tale of Prank Calls and Corporate Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine a time before cell phones dominated our lives when landlines were the primary mode of communication. In this era, Reddit user OP found themselves caught in a whirlwind of confusion and amusement due to a peculiar mix-up with a local Pizza Hut. What started as innocent wrong-number calls soon spiraled into a comedic battle between OP’s family and the oblivious pizza chain. This extraordinary story of mistaken identities, revenge, and corporate ignorance is sure to leave you astounded and entertained.<\/p>\n

It all began when OP’s family realized their phone number, (555)455-5515, bore a striking resemblance to that of the local Pizza Hut, (555)455-5575. With a similar sequence of numbers, confusion was inevitable. Before long, the phone at OP’s house was ringing incessantly, with pizza orders pouring in from confused customers. Despite their best efforts to explain the error, the callers refused to listen, leading to expletive-laden tirades that became all too common.<\/p>\n

To compound the situation, Pizza Hut Corporate decided to advertise their local branch in newspapers, billboards, and phone books. However, in an astonishing oversight, they printed OP’s number instead of the correct Pizza Hut contact information. Suddenly, the floodgates burst open, and OP’s home became the unwitting destination for hundreds of frustrated pizza enthusiasts. The peaceful abode turned into a chaotic hotline for pizza orders, all misdirected and misunderstood.<\/p>\n

1.  Strap in folks!<\/h3>\n

\"sell-pizza\"<\/p>\n

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2. OP and his family lost the ability to order from several local Pizza-Huts lol<\/h3>\n

\"the-end\"<\/p>\n

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3. OP had a phone number that was very similar to a Pizza-Hut<\/h3>\n

\"phone-number\"<\/p>\n

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4. They would have drunk people call back 4-5 times and then begin screaming into the phone!<\/h3>\n

\"for-years<\/p>\n

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5. This was pretty normal and the pizza hut was even aware of this and apologized when OP called them<\/h3>\n

\"phone-ringing\"<\/p>\n

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6. They botched OP’s number on the things for the phone number as one of the locations in their town<\/h3>\n

\"pizza-hut\"<\/p>\n

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7. Phone calls went all the way up to 100-200 from 3-5 phone calls<\/h3>\n

\"correct-place<\/p>\n

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8. Upon this happening OP’s dad called into the pizza hut<\/h3>\n

\"dad-calls<\/p>\n

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9. OP’s dad hung up with an evil plan in his mind!<\/h3>\n

\"says-okay<\/p>\n

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10. OP’s dad instructed him and his sister to take all calls from now on<\/h3>\n

\"your-money\"<\/p>\n

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11. After two weeks OP’s dad tried to make pizza hut change their number for free<\/h3>\n

\"two-weeks<\/p>\n

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12. OP and his sister fielded phone calls every day all day long!<\/h3>\n

\"phone-calls\"<\/p>\n

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13. It took 6 more weeks of them doing this and then pizza hut closed<\/h3>\n

\"threatened-us\"<\/p>\n

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14. After a few weeks the owner lost his job he called OP’s house<\/h3>\n

\"lost-his-job\"<\/p>\n

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15. OP thanks everyone for the rewards!<\/h3>\n

\"edit\"<\/p>\n

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16. Best ending ever for real<\/h3>\n

\"closed-down\"<\/p>\n

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17. OP imagines that most pizza places make most of their money from delivery<\/h3>\n

\"i-imagine\"<\/p>\n

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18. It sure will top the list!<\/h3>\n

\"top-the-list\"<\/p>\n

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19. This Redditor shared his aunt’s story<\/h3>\n

\"back-in\"<\/p>\n

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20. Worth the read for sure!<\/h3>\n

\"worth-the-read\"<\/p>\n

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This was it, folks, this was the story let us know what you think about it down below in the comments section, make sure to like and share this article with your friends and family and stay tuned for more content like this with Defused. Thank You!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine a time before cell phones dominated our lives when landlines were the primary mode of communication. In this era, Reddit user OP found themselves caught in a whirlwind of confusion and amusement due to a peculiar mix-up with a local Pizza Hut. What started as innocent wrong-number calls soon spiraled into a comedic battle […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":252883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10037,5,118],"tags":[3926,1454,232,162,3537,6985,3062],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hussain-19.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253964,"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252639\/revisions\/253964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defused.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}