Caller ID is a wonderful thing, although I admit that it may be killing social courtesy, since if you know who’s calling (or if you’re calling someone who you know will know it’s you), you’re less inclined to say hello and more inclined to just launch into a conversation.  Like the dude who called me yesterday afternoon and — even though I definitely do not sound female — opened his end of the conversation by suggestively asking, “How are you doing after last night?” When I asked, “Who is this?” since I didn’t recognize the phone number, he got upset and said, “This isn’t Alicia?” Do I sound like an Alicia?

I can’t tell if it’s the advent of a touch-screen phone (like the Treo) or the fact that people just aren’t paying attention as much anymore (or just don’t care), but I’ve been plagued with wrong numbers on my cell phone over the past month.  And it’s not even people prank-calling me or anything — these are actual misdialed numbers of confused people who are trying to reach real people and aren’t pleased when they find out that I’m not who they’re trying to reach.  It’s even extended to wrong-number texting!  I’ve gotten texts and even pictures (no, not gross pictures, you sicko) from people who I have no idea who they are, and some of them can be pretty adamant that they’re dialing the right number.  I’ve gotten stuff like “was great to see you last night, let’s hang out again soon” from people I don’t know on days when I hung out with no one the previous night, I got a picture from some guy and his “dawg” getting friendly with a hamster at a pet store…

Am I the only one experiencing this?  Will there be a Committee for Correct Number Dialing in my future?