'Happy V day, chump': Anti-cupid cancels a stranger's dinner reservation on Valentine's Day to get payback after a wrong number mishap leaves him repeatedly spammed

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Feb 18, 2025 7:00 PM EST

This guy taught a stranger a lesson in thorough date-planning after they refused to heed warnings about a wrong number mixup. Securing a dinner reservation on Valentine's Day wasn't this dude's top priority, but petty revenge certainly was. 

Valentine's Day can be a restaurant's most profitable day of the year. Desperate singles pour in, begging for tables and heavily tipping servers to impress their date. While many employees rue the day, restaurant owners count stacks of cash after a high-traffic, full house evening. That's why it's always so hard to secure a reservation on Valentine's Day—everyone wants to go out. And if you do, by some miracle, get a table at a restaurant, you better do everything in your power to keep it. 

To increase their chances of landing a mate, serial daters, married couples, and every long-term couple will plan ahead of time to avoid being left out in the rain, dinnerless, and romance-free. So when the guy in our next story realized a stranger was using his phone number to secure a reservation for his date on Valentine's Day, he decided to take matters into his own hands.

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    If your date isn't mature enough to double check your reservation, is that a red flag? Keep scrolling for the full story of a Valentine's Day date gone totally wrong. Next time, this guy will be a little more thorough in his planning, double-checking everything before going out on the biggest date night of the year. 

  • "Using my phone number for your reservation for V-Day? Not this time."

    I have a pretty easy Google Voice number that people tend to use to make reservations. I've gotten hundreds over the years and it's mildly annoying. There's usually a link in the confirmation text messages to cancel which I always do on the day of the reservation.
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  • This last tuesday I got a text saying that my reservation was confirmed for today. Except I didn't make one and I don't live in that city. So I patiently waited to cancel it today.
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  • Today I got another text saying "your reservation is at 6pm. Click the link to cancel." Well, bud, your girl is gonna be ped you were too lazy to use
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  • your own number because tonight's reservation just got canceled! Happy V day, chump. No Mexican food dinner for you.
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  • Brilliant Cattle_602 You could always pre-order a very expensive wine for the table. To be opened and on ice when they get there.
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  • avid-learner-bot If they can't even use their own phone number for a reservation, they've got it coming. Good one though
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  • CatlessBoyMom If he's not even using his own number for the reservation, he deserves to get dumped on Single Awareness Day.
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  • holdonwhileipoop I had a number for years that the previous owner would just not stop using. Payday loans, strippers, collectors, bogus raffles... I actually found him and sent him a text politely asking him to stop. It got worse.
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  • Fine. I did more research and found out his work AND wife's info. I'm pretty sure this did not go well for him. I just changed my number last week. Sweet silence for me. F U, Curtis.
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  • FormerSalmon Not sure why people wouldn't use their own number!
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  • Shrek1onDVD Around 5 years ago, someone was using my phone number at a hospital. They must have been sick or something because every other week I was getting text messages and voice mails from doctors trying to reach him.
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  • I finally called the front desk and informed them the phone number was wrong and to remove mine from his profile. "Ohh we can't change any details on the account owner without their permission, but I'll let him know it's wrong."
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  • 2-3 weeks later, I'm still getting this guy's appointment confirmations and voicemails. So one day, I got a text message reminding him of his appointment that morning. I typed "cancel" to cancel it.
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  • A couple hours later, I get a notification for another appointment. He must have rescheduled it. I cancelled that one too. Guess who stopped getting texts and calls from the doctor..
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  • AusGeno Our old number was 1 digit away from the Taxi number. If you were nice we told you it was wrong, if you were a j we'd say the taxi is on its way, if you were hammered drank we would get your address and call the taxi for you.
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  • Firenze42 Before the days of cell phones, online orders, and food delivery (except pizza), my parents' phone number was the same as the local McDonald's only the last 2 numbers were switched. It was amazing how many people would call and just start rattling off an order. Even if it was McDonald's, they don't do that, bud!
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  • Advanced_Office616 This is hilariously awesome. Having the wrong number for someone can be funny sometimes though.
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  • For about two years, I would get a call at least monthly from an older woman looking to talk to her friend. After about the third voicemail, I finally picked up and kindly told the woman that she had the wrong number. She was very apologetic. She still called and I would tell her again.
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  • After about the 6th or 7th call, we would actually chat. I'm 44m now and was probably in my 30s when this was going on. I figured hey, she was someone's friend, mom, grandmother, etc., the least I could do was talk to her for a few minutes.
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  • entrepenurious when i would get tired of being interrupted at work, i would answer "wilkie-clay funeral home; how may i help you?" and they would hang up immediately. we had a non-published number (but predictable as a part of a sequence).
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  • Living-Reception3777 I have someone who "works at the club" that occasionally gives out my number as her own. "You remember me, Rum and Coke guy!" Or, "I'm calling about that private dance!" I always laugh and tell them it's a wrong number, only one has tried again.
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  • justaman_097 Well played! It's nice that they give you a convenient method to cancel the reservations that you didn't make.
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