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Old 11-15-2008, 10:02 AM   #1
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Quick story for you that I cannot believe:

My wife is a junior high teacher and one day she gets a text message from one of her students that is not only inappropriate, but the texter identifies herself. Typical junior high girl crap. The content of the text doesn't bother her nearly as much as knowing that some of the kids have figured out her cell # and actually texted her during class (she was annoyed that she didn't see it happen).

So the incident gets taken to the administration as they take stuff like that very seriously. Through the investigation they find out that the text was meant to be sent to another girl in the class and was sent in error. Not only that, when they looked into it further they found that the intended recipient has a cell # that is one digit off from my wifes.

Let's observe the improbability of this. Two totally random people get a cell number that is one digit off. One ends up as the student in the other ones class. That student gets involved in a conflict during a class taught by the teacher. Somebody tries to send a malicious text and of all the mistakes to make, dials the teachers number.

That's basically the equivalent of being in a meeting, getting pissed at a coworker, sending a threatening text message during the meeting, messing up the number by a single digit and having it end up on your bosses phone 5 feet away.

Crazy.
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