Person making the call asks me, "who are you?' Grrrr...

I find it extremely aggravating when a caller asks me this very question. I don't know why in the world they would think that I would tell them who I am when they are the one placing the call to me. They should know who I am to begin with. I think most of the time these callers are either telemarketers or they are bill collectors. I don't blame you one bit whether you turn it around on them verbally like you do or just hang up on them. Have a great day and happy myLotting!!!

I've never had a situation like that happen to me. But I have had a telemarketer hang up on me which was a new experience. but I can tell you I'd be annoyed too if someone called me and asked who it was on the line with them. I'd probably wonder what they were smoking or drinking.

hi the strangest call I ever got was from the front pedestrian gate in the gated apartment complex I lived in before I was evicted. Hello mom I cannt get in, let me in p ush the 9 key mom? I knew it was someyoungster in our complex who had forgotten his gate key. so I kindly' said I am not your mom, but honey do you know your apartment number, he said yes, then I said I am pressing the nine key just open the gate and get home,your mom is probably worried about you. I couldnt get mad at that little scared voice even if I didnt know who he was,he needed an adults help for sure.

I Have experienced the same and I personally think this is very rude. That person made the call and s/he should have a pretty good idea of whom the number is for them to be making such stupid questions! Hehe

hi there, I do sometime encountered this situations, I think those people want to know who is this on their cellphone. If I want to check someone's phone number, I would first say my name and ask he(or she) if he knows me. Have a nice day!

When ever someone asks me who is this and I dont know the number I ALWAYS ask who they are first. I really dont play around and that issue. It be some telemarketer trying to get ur info so they can call u a billiob times. 1 time I picked up the phone someone say hey b*tch I cocked an attitude and said "whatcha just call me f**k face" and they were like is this MiMi I siad no Drew Carey this is the wrong number. And they were like oo sorry my bad. LMFAO!!

I had a guy call me one day telling me that someone called him from my number and asked him to call back. I tried to get him to tell me who it was and I would tell him if they were available because it wasn't me. Next thing I know he is trying to encourage me to help him "get off" I started yelling at him that he was a dirty pig and hung up the phone on him. That was the last i ever heard from him.

I have across many incidences like these too, although most of the time I just tell the caller who I am to avoid any unwanted conversations or shouting matches. I guess the main reason why someone would ask who you are is because they make a call expecting a familiar person to answer the phone (with a voice that they are familiar with/expecting), and the actual voice that comes across the phone isn't the person they are expecting. And they are hoping you would introduce yourself and they will then check if you know/are related to the person they are looking for. Another possible reason is that these people calling are salespeople, and they ask who you are because they don't know who they are calling in the first place, and once you introduce yourself they will proceed to address you and promote their product(s). But for me, it would probably be worth a try replying like you did to the next person who calls me and asks me who I am!

It is so annoying when people do that. I always tell them it depends on who they're looking for. Sometimes I let people use my phone and the person they called didn't answer, so they find my number on the caller id and call back. That's understandable, but I still think that they should mention that someone called them from the number instead of just asking who I am. I can't think of any specific examples at the moment though.

I have this happen. I really don't ever know how to react. I will say though its usually a case of when someone borrows my phone and calls someone in which that person calls back to find out who called. If I was the person calling someone who had called my number this is what I say,'I was returning a call to someone who called this number earlier.' Then I wait to see how they reply. Its a more descent approach in my opinion that way someone else doesn't get offended and get defensive.

LOL. That's funny. It happens all the time. I will get people calling and they ask who you are. Just like you. Who are you trying to call? I ask. I called so and so why are you answering their phone? If they get belligerent, I then tell them how blind they were not to dial the right number.

this invariably happens and people who do this don't even realise what they are asking. whenever this happens with me i ask the caller to tell me whom he/she wants tp talk to. if they don't name any person then it means that someone on the other end is trying to disturb me or the person is lacking phone ettiquetts.

oh yes this has happened to me not once but quite a number of times. sometimes it happens when i am seriously doing some work,firstly i hesitate to take the call itself but since there is no one around i take the call and then after saying hello i hear someone saying who is this.i get so irritated and feel like yelling at the person or just put the phone down but then i need to know who the caller is bcoz it might be some important call. generally very old people have this tendency,also some people are habituated asking like that.we have to bear with them.

People often make the wrong answers so people often get wrong answers ,too. I have a friend . One day he recieved a ring. The man asked my friend who he was with a very angry voice. He said his wife's telephone had my friend's number. And my friends said i don't know you and your wife . The man said really with a lot of unbelievable and later hang up without saying sorry. This made my friend very confused . I feel very strang because they are from totally different place.

Hey they treating you bad on the phone? I've had that happen both on my cell and on the land-line. Sometimes I never know whether it's a genuine mistake or whether they ae trying tosee if I remember who THEY are When they ask me 'Who is speaking?' I usually say 'Obviously not who you expected' and take it from there. Then they might say 'Did I dial the wrong number?' and I will say 'What is wrong with my number - it isn't wrong! It's working pefectly lol'. Well once there was a time when we had a good laugh and it all led to something else... but that's topic for another discussion

Well that happened to me on many occasions. Some times a "bhaiya" (sorry no offense)calling me and asking in his typical accent "Kaaauun"? It freaks me out. I remember a call i got sometime back from a woman. She was insistent that I was Abdul or Ahmed o(r some name) presumably her son. She was somewhere near the racecourse and wanted to meet her son. There was a sense of urgency in her voice. Apparently her son had given the no. which was mine and she was very very insistent that I am not acknowledging her due to some reason. She was an aged lady that much I could make out from her voice. Initially I just said that you got the wrong number but she kept calling, and it took me some time, with patienceto explain that I am nowhere "related" to her or her son for that reason. She was getting hysterical. I felt bad for her but could I be of some assistance? Hmmmmm...

I have similar experience before. There was once a friend who called my home phone and asked where was I. I asked back which phone did you call and he laughed off. But I did received missed calls. I called and asked the missed party that I was returning a missed call who called me earlier.This is common.

This is something you see happening on tv series a lot Lol

lol. i have the same experience. exactly the same, a guy called me, when i picked up, he said 'whos this', he drove me mad and i replied back with attitude, 'who are you?!' then i started yelling at him as he was so rude. i dont understand some people sometimes. they are so out of it man..

hahaha.. that happened to me before, and i was like, 'err.. excuse me... but who are you looking for?' and i cant believe my ears when my mom did that too the other time when she called someone!! oh well..