Shoot, you're lucky it's strangers! I have friends who are that rude.
Once, a guy I've been buddies with since 1985 called me and decided to join me for dinner. He said he'd drive. I got tired of waiting when the 10PM news went off, so I called, right before I was about to simply leave and go dine on my own. He said that I "should have figured out" he wasn't coming. I asked why he hadn't called, and he replied that he forgot my phone number.
I let it slide and went to eat, knowing full well that 1) my phone number hadn't changed in 6 years at that point, and 2) he no longer had a regular phone, only a cell phone...and my number was in it. Even if it hadn't been programmed in it, he had called me from it to make dinner plans!
I have never called him on it.
Once, a guy I've been buddies with since 1985 called me and decided to join me for dinner. He said he'd drive. I got tired of waiting when the 10PM news went off, so I called, right before I was about to simply leave and go dine on my own. He said that I "should have figured out" he wasn't coming. I asked why he hadn't called, and he replied that he forgot my phone number.
I let it slide and went to eat, knowing full well that 1) my phone number hadn't changed in 6 years at that point, and 2) he no longer had a regular phone, only a cell phone...and my number was in it. Even if it hadn't been programmed in it, he had called me from it to make dinner plans!
I have never called him on it.
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