Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

THE WRONG NUMBER

Larry lived alone in his small inner-city apartment. He had no friends and most people ignored him at all costs.

Then one day, unexpectedly, the phone rang. And Larry was surprised to find himself talking to God.

“Is this 555-3178?” God asked.

“No, this is 555-7138.”

“Sorry.” And God hung up.

The chapter opened with:

Sometimes ideas have come out of short stories or ramblings I write just to shift gears once in a while. Cartoons are, after all, little stories themselves, frozen at an interesting point in time. What follows are several stories that either led to cartoons, could have led to cartoons, or were just ideas in and of themselves.

Interesting that this seems to have been published after its inclusion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prehistory_of_The_Far_Side. Or maybe they just forgot to include the resulting comic. Some of the other short stories have the resulting comic included.

Anecdote that nobody will care about :)

In the early 90s, our phone number was 330-7576. Every couple of weeks we’d get a call asking for someone, advise it was a wrong number, and the caller would apologize. After a few times, we talked to them a little bit and found out that the number they wanted was 330-7675. So after that, when they’d call and ask for that person, we’d say “You wanted 7675” lol.

Nothing came of it, that’s it. But it amused us. :)