Remember the days before text messages when wrong numbers were quickly recognized (because of the voice on the other end of the line) and one party responds, “Sorry, wrong number”? That’s generally the end of it without much more fanfare.
Nowadays, we have text messages that afford more lasting evidence of the slip up. When I get these, I’ll usually just dismiss them, and on occasion I’ll have a little fun with the sender.
Today was one of those days where I was just going to dismiss the message, but thought I’d better send a reply to maintain an evidentiary chain in the event my wife picked up my phone and saw the message: “Thinking about you. Love you.”
Now, let me go on record to state that I’m not concerned about someone actually sending me such a message (other than my wife); however, if viewed out of context, you could certainly get the wrong idea.
Easy response, I thought: “Sorry, wrong number.”
There done with it and make sure to tell the wife about the odd occurrence. I couldn’t have imagined a stranger follow-up than what I received…
“No it’s not. It’s your aunt Patricia”
Hur?
Does . . . not . . . compute . . .
I wondered to myself, “Who is aunt Patricia?” I mean, surely she checked the number. Is she on my wife’s side of the family? A great-aunt that I’ve forgotten? And, how could I have forgotten about aunt Patricia? Should I feel bad about forgetting who she was?
After having answered all of these questions, I finally realized that I don’t have an aunt Patricia, and kindly informed dear aunt Patricia of this news.
I had a good laugh; however, I dug around in Google a bit to uncover some more intriguing stories of text mishaps out there. Turns out, the really juicy stories are a dime a dozen.
Don’t slip up when you’re texting… (Telegraph)
Texting to wrong number results in drug charges (Carlsbad Current-Argus) Doh!
Cell phones help, hurt cheaters (ABC affiliate KVIA) TigerGate
Moral of the story? Make sure you know who you’re sending the text to before you hit send.
