How come wrong numbers are never busy?

Question

lol think about it, everytime you dial a wrong number...its never busy

Answer 1

Well you never really know if its the wrong number if it isnt busy lol

Answer 2

For the same reason you're never on the phone when someone dials a wrong number and gets you.

And, by the way, how come people still say "dial" the phone?

I'm old enough to have used a dial phone. But the phone companies have been phasing out dial/pulse phones since the '70s.

Answer 3

It boils down to chaos probability: Take 12 friends, including yourself ( for a total of 'lucky 13'....ha!). You all know each others numbers by heart, and on pretty good averages (especially if you're a teen girl), call each other on a daily basis.

So, given these numbers don't have "call waiting" or do and the service(s) are overloaded, you get the dreaded BUSY SIGNAL.

But if you dial a number, even off by one digit, you escape the normal dialing pattern. You've "randomly" dialed a whole new number outside this calling circle.....and come to the greater probability this number isn't dialed as much as those in your calling circle.

Now....did that help, or what?

Answer 4

no doubt. that person at the wrong number is always home and answers on like the 2nd ring. i guess your mind always knows when these people are home so some1 will be there when you call. lol i dont kno

Answer 5

Because you don't know they're wrong numbers until someone answers the phone!

Answer 6

If it was busy you wouldn't know that you dialed it wrong...

Now would you???

:o)

Answer 7

a wrong number could be busy... you just wouldnt know it was the wrong number because no one answered.

Answer 8

Murphy figured it out. It applies to each and every of the solutions above. "MURPHY'S regulation" If something can flow incorrect it truly is going to on the most inconvenient time. Like in case you drop something heavy it truly is going to fall on something breakable. And all different corollaries. in case you position something mutually and it is going mutually actual, you could ought to take it aside back because you forgot something.

Answer 9

Because the wrong people are always waiting for you to call.

Answer 10

cause no one ever call the person who has that number and they try to keep it open so some1 will talk to them lol