Jeez--people are tetchy sometimes. I remember when "Sorry, wrong number," got a response of, "Oh, sorry," and that was the end of it.
I'm notoriously evil when it comes to dealing with strange phone calls though. At least I was, before everyone in the fam switched to cell phones instead of a house phone. If someone mispronounces my name, I hang up. If the conversation with someone I don't know and don't care to lasts long after I've made it clear I'm not interested--in your example, somewhere around, "Yeah, we've lived here nineteen years"--I hang up. Once, when someone asked for me and pronounced my name wrong, I said, "Hang on, I'll get her," and then hung up. (I admit that was bad, but it was funny.)
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I'm notoriously evil when it comes to dealing with strange phone calls though. At least I was, before everyone in the fam switched to cell phones instead of a house phone. If someone mispronounces my name, I hang up. If the conversation with someone I don't know and don't care to lasts long after I've made it clear I'm not interested--in your example, somewhere around, "Yeah, we've lived here nineteen years"--I hang up. Once, when someone asked for me and pronounced my name wrong, I said, "Hang on, I'll get her," and then hung up. (I admit that was bad, but it was funny.)