Wrong Number!

One pet peeve I have about the US is the tons of automated phone calls one gets. I have been receiving phone calls for various people and most of them are automated. It annoys the hell out of me because I can't say, "Oi, stop calling me because I'm not that friggin' person!". I have been receiving this same call for one "George Clint" for oh, I don't know...a month already and I have no idea how to tell them to stop annoying me.

Just now, I received one and the left a number for me to callback. I immediately hung up on the automated message and dialed the number. I was so ready to yell at the stupid company for sending all these automated calls with no option of saying that "There is no such person". The guy who answered my call probably got a little bite out of me because it is so annoying to get the same call maybe 3 times a week looking for some non-existent person! I told the person quite curtly that there is no such person so please stop the damned calls.

Another one would be some medical office calling for this lady and leaving a message etc etc and first of all, I thought it was me but when I replayed the message, it turned out it wasn't. I was so mad. Stupid automated calling systems! Heck, why can't they get the number right? Not to mention, the cellphone companies recycle numbers and these people don't bother to update their contact info leaving others to deal with their personal calls.

The other day, I was woken up at like 7.15am in the morning by the sound of my ringing phone. I was deeply asleep so when I woke up to pick up my phone from the desk, I fell off my bed! To make matters more annoying...I answered the call and it was a wrong number! >:( I crawled back to bed and as soon as I got in, the phone rang again. It was the same lady looking for that person! Gah! If I wasn't half asleep, I think I would've been very rude to the lady. Heck, who would make phone calls at 7.15am? I slept late the previous night and had to wake up for class at 8am so I was really counting on getting as much sleep as I can.

I hope I don't get anymore annoying automated and wrong number calls. I'm so fed up!