How did the number I was on the phone with call me?

[Falconater]

I was talking on the phone.  Halfway through our conversation I got a beep that I was receiving a call.  Well after we hung up I saw that the number that had been calling was the same number I was already on the phone with.  How could this be so? 

[MiiHere · Accepted solution]

Perhaps you both called each other at the same time and when they answered they were actually only switching over while the other line continued to ring.

Or they accidentally pushed a couple buttons on their end and called you while talking to you. I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it keeps happening and with every person you talk to. 

[Falconater]

It was just him calling me.  But what you say about the pushing buttons makes since.  Could he have perhaps hit redial by accident?  He has two landline phones.  His mom was going to make a call after we got off the phone so maybe she didn't know we were still on it.  Could she have tried dialing a number but because we were on the phone it dialed me instead?

[MiiHere]

If it's a land line and he has two of them, then yes. She could have picked up the other end and called you by accident and if you have the number saved in your phone as him, then it would make it appear like you were talking to him on one line, and him calling you on the other. Or he somehow initiated a 3 way phone call and hit redial.

[MiiHere]

Does it only happen when you talk to him? Or does this happen with every person you have phone calls with?

[Falconater]

Its happened a couple times with him but its been quite awhile since the last time.  And it hasn't happened with anyone else.

[Snn5]

Used to be that if you hung up before the other party, in a situation where they called you, that the caller would call right back.  It was almost an automatic type thing, where the caller heard air, then after you re-answered the ringing phone, they then heard you.  It was almost seamless.  That was a long time ago, but retro-tech-artifacts can still occur.

[MiiHere]

I do remember that about landlines. We use to not hang up on purpose so when the person picked the phone back up we could scare them. 

[MiiHere]

It must be something that is happening on his end. If it was something to do with your phone then I imagine it would happen more often and with a variety of phone calls.

[Khines5705]

"The calls are coming from inside the house! Get out of there now!"

Hahaha, anyone remember that?