This morning about 8 am I heard the phone ringing. I’d been up late watching the Giants lose to the Astros and Dopin’ so this was a bit too early, but struggled up from the depths of slumber to get the phone…
Me: um, hello?
Guy: Hi, I’m just calling to let you know the 9:00 am game this morning has been rained out.
Me: uh, okay… who is this?
Guy: This is John from Brian’s team. There’s no game today.
Me: okay, bye.
Guy: bye.
What made this particularly strange is that I have no idea who Brian or John are. I do play soccer, and was planning to play this morning at 10 am. But this is a regular weekly pick up game featuring a number of expats that live in the area. I don’t think there is a John or Brian, and they always play at 10 am. They even play in the snow if it’s not too deep, so I imagine that they played this morning, as it wasn’t even raining here.
I can only assume that this was a wrong number that serendipitously reached someone who had also planned to play soccer this morning.
Anybody else ever have an experience like that? Being half asleep only made it a little more surreal.
