Curse of The Wrong Number

Recently I have been receiving calls from young women to aunties and even men asking me if I'm Karen and if I offer beautician services. That said, my name is not Karen nor do I specialise in beautician services. I'm just a simple multi-tasks executive in an extremely small company.

So anyhow, I have been paitiently answering all this calls from unknown numbers (and by unknown I meant numbers not saved in my phonebook) just in case they are someone I know that are calling me. And many times I have been greeted by people saying "Karen ar?". So I'll just sigh and say "Sorry. You got the wrong number.". And most of the times they will be embarrassed and said sorry before cutting the line. And there are times where the caller will insist that I'm Karen and trying to 'convince' me that I'm Karen. Here's how it goes.

Male Caller : Hello, Karen ar?
Me : Ah... No, sorry you got the wrong number.
Male Caller : Har? Wrong number ar?
Me : Yes. Wrong number.
Male Caller : What? Aren't you Karen?
Me : No I'm not.
Male Caller : How come? I call this number.
Me : Yup, I'm pretty sure I'm not Karen tho many have been calling MY number asking for Karen. But no. I'm not her.
Male Caller : Ah...... ok. Sorry. *click*

Also there are times where ridiculas aunty who thinks I'm just pulling her leg and don't want her business.
(Mind you this happened on a day I wasn't feeling well and wasn't in the best of mood.)

Aunty : Hello, Karen? (She was actually speaking in Hokkien)
Me : No, wrong number.
Aunty : Har? Okay. *click*

She calls back a few moments later when I was out to the washroom (I saw the missed call) and calls AGAIN when I came back.

Aunty : Hello, Karen? (This time in Cantonese)
Me : No. Wrong number.
Aunty : What wrong number? How can? Her number on the card says it's this number.
Me : *snap* How I know? The number on the card wrong, what does that got to do with me? *click*

Sigh... I'm pretty sure I'll feel guilty for doing that later but what the heck man. But I said wrong number and she refuses to believe me, what can I do? I hope no more aunties will be calling and 'accusing' me of withholding information from her.