A Canadian couple is feeling the same pain that anyone with the number 867-5309 experienced in the ’80s.
Just like the Tommy Tutone hit had everyone picking up the phone and asking for Jenny, Natasha Lavoie and Jonathan McCurrach of British Columbia tell the CBC that they keep getting calls because their number was put on a T-shirt.
The shirt, which was sold by a company called Wisdum NY, features an image of a fake missing poster for a cat named Torbo along with a number that just happens to belong to Lavoie and McCurrach. What’s more, the couple actually has a cat, only its name is Mauser and it’s not missing.
“Sometimes, like six times a day, I’m getting these really random phone calls and people leaving me voicemails saying that they found my cat and they want money for my cat,” Lavoie say. “I’m like, ‘My cat’s at home in the air conditioning.'”
Wisdum NY tells the CBC that the shirt is no longer sold online and that “The use of a real number within the art created was not intentional.”
Lavoie and McCurrach received a similar response when they reached out to the company, though they were hoping for a “real apology.”
“I feel like I deserve a T-shirt after this,” Lavoie says.