[Rain Man]

I saw in the Weekly World News a while back that some guy in California dialed a wrong number and got Osama bin Laden's satellite phone. Apparently, Osama was really ticked off and was asking "How did you get this number?"

As for me, I have no interesting wrong number stories myself, other than the time the phone company screwed up, and whenever I called home I got some Spanish-speaking woman. It threw me for a bit.

I did get an answering machine message once from a sultry-sounding woman saying, "Kevin, I had a great time last Friday. When do you want to get together again?" My wife got the message and played it for me and we got a good laugh out of it, though I was bit worried when I said, "What were we doing last Friday night anyway?" My wife said, "I was out of town, and I'm not sure what you were doing." (By the way, my phone message mentioned my name.)

Last story: my dad has a rather annoying tendancy to not identify himself when he calls people, and just says something flip instead. Back when I was a teenager, I remember him calling up his restaurant, and when someone answered, he said something like, "What are you doing, stupid? Get to work!" It turned out that he dialed the number wrong, and I thought it was hilarious.