A mansharedhis story of the pettiest of petty revenge after growing tired of people constantly using his phone number for reservations. You can imagine just how often this would happen in the weeks leading up to Valentines days.We reached out to the man who made the post via private message and will update the article when he gets back to us.

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Having random people use your phone number is beyond annoying

Person in a hoodie using a phone on public transport, emphasizing phone number privacy.

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But one man decided that enough was enough after getting texts about confirming a Valentines day restaurant reservation

Reserved table with candles for Valentine’s Day reservation setup.

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There are some reasons to not just give out your phone number

On the face of it, it’s not that hard to see why people might use a fake number. Unfortunately, these days, unscrupulous companies will sell any bit of data they can get their hands on. That does, of course, also include phone numbers. After all, telemarketers and similar companies will pay to get a list of active phone numbers.

Even worse, your number in the wrong hands can be used forfraudulentpurposes. You can be targeted with phishing attempts or, in very extreme cases, reroute your textmessages. Of course, more realistically, the main issue with someone else using your number is sheer annoyance, as this story demonstrates.

After all, many services do ask you to provide a number, even if they never interact with the given number. Regardless of their reasons, you have probably given out your number a lot more times than you canremember. However, the man in this story has a pretty peculiar issue, as all these folks using his number have probably made it hard for him to, for example, sign up for other services.

Imagine creating a profile and getting the “this number is already in use” message when it’s quite literally your number that has been “wasted” on what must be a burner account. There is a reasonable chance that the people making these accounts aren’t trying to mess with someone in particular, but the result is the same.

Man Cancels A Couple’s Valentine’s Dinner After They Used His Number For Reservations

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But there is a good chance these folks were just lazy

Of course, there are a couple of reasons someone might be giving out fake numbers. The first is in case they decide to no-show anyway, they don’t have to risk their number being blacklisted or getting angry calls. This is not a great practice, but it’s at least understandable. However, there is also a chance that the person making the reservation wants to use a fake number tocheat.

Regardless, canceling the reservation made on your very real number seems like a reasonable thing to do. It comes with the territory, if you are going to use another number, you know, at least in theory, that you are risking the number’s owner doing something with it. At the very least, this can be a lesson for these Valentine’s day couples, that if you want a date to work, you had better commit.

All in all, it’s a pretty harmless approach, an actual example of “petty” revenge. It’s prettyentitledto just use random numbers, knowing full well that someone out there probably has it. After all, there is a chance that other folks with “often used fake numbers” get constant calls from restaurants and other places, asking if they are even going to show up.

Man Cancels A Couple’s Valentine’s Dinner After They Used His Number For Reservations

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Some folks needed more details

Text exchange discussing random phone number use for reservations.

Reddit comment exchange discussing phone number mishap affecting Valentine’s Day reservations.

Readers thought his story was amusing

Text exchange about using a phone number for a reservation, discussing pre-ordering wine.

Comments discussing sequential phone numbers for reservations.

Comment reads, “Not sure why people wouldn’t use their own number!” related to phone number reservation issue.

Comment discusses using own phone number for reservations, hinting at a Valentine’s Day scenario.

Comment about using phone numbers for reservations on Valentine’s Day.

Comment on reservation phone number mix-up, discussing petty revenge.

Others shared similar experiences

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Text exchange about using phone number for reservation issues, highlighting inconvenience and mistaken identity.

Text message exchange about mistaken phone number for police department.

Reddit comment discussing using a phone number closely related to AT&T’s for profit.

Text describing using someone’s phone number for reservations and the issues it caused.

Text post about misdialing company phone numbers related to reservations.

Text about using a phone number for taxi calls, humorously describing various reactions to incorrect calls.

Image of a humorous story about a misdialed phone number used for church calls.

Text exchange about using phone number mistakenly, highlighting humorous reservation experience.

Text screenshot about using phone number reservations mistakenly made by someone else.

Text describing issues with phone number reservations, emphasizing call confusion.

Text story about phone number mix-up with clinic reservations.

Text exchange about reservations and phone number mix-up with humorous McDonald’s reference.

A humorous story about using the wrong phone number for movie showtimes, leading to a light-hearted conversation.

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