22 Missed Calls

This is not a synopsis of a movie. This actually happened to me. Last week, I checked my phone upon hearing a beep. I had left it in a room by accident and totally forgotten about it. I was downstairs when it rang itself out of battery.


Upon checking, I was surprised with what was in front of my eyes. The note read: 22 missed calls. I checked the time of calls. It all happened within a period of an hour. For an unknown person to call 22 times, it must be really urgent. I was deliberating whether to return the call. After all, I do not have this number in my phone book and I was waiting for important calls. Just when I was about to return the call, my phone rang again.

Hey, what do you know. That very urgent/eager caller calls again. Hence, I answered.


Me: Hello

Caller: Makes funny noise (silence)

Me: Hello?

The line went dead.



Then I thought oh well, the caller must have dialed the wrong number. Just as I was about to brush it off, my phone rang again. The number showed on my screen was that very same number.


This time I passed the phone to my sister. She answered. He said something (I don't know what he said to her). She asked him who are you looking for in malay. He said something again. She told him he dailed the wrong number. But he seems to disbelieve. As though we were playing a prank on him. Any minute he believes what we say, Ashton Kutcher will appear and tell him that he has been punked.



The poor fella indeed has been punked. Not by us though. Some girl must have given him a random number (which happens to exist and it happens to be my number). And this really enthusiastic fella thought the girl of his dreams has given him her number. People, if you really do not want to give someone your number, DON'T.



Do not simply name the digits that come to your mind to strangers or people you do not want to give your number to. It is not just childish but annoying and pathetic.