# Text message conversations with strangers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383 "2010-05-14T02:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/1 "2010-05-14T02:32:04Z")
Stranger: just a block away Me: Don’t text and drive, it makes you dial the wrong number Stranger: I could be walking Me: Are you? _crickets_ Stranger: Hi jeremia\* this is fawn\* i was wondering if i can come over and pick up my stuff? if your home Me: Wrong number, but if he just dumped you it was obviously a horrible mistake Stranger: lmao u dont even know So what wrong number texts have you gotten recently? \*Names not changed because I haven’t got the foggiest idea who they are anyways ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/2 "2010-05-14T06:41:55Z")
Stranger: Hey, you old whore - Brian says you’re unemployed again. Me: I think you must have the wrong number; I’m still whoring myself out as hard as ever. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/3 "2010-05-14T07:03:54Z")
Not a wrong number text conversation, per se, but a pretty bizarre occurrence all the same. So this lady calls me at like 11 AM saying that I had texted her saying something like “hi, how are you?” I think she got two texts from my number. So she was calling me to say “cease and desist.” I never texted her. First, I don’t know her, and second, the first text was sent at around 7 AM…and there is no way in hell I’m going to be awake at 7 AM if I don’t have to be, let alone texting someone. I told her this. I also asked her to read the number she got the texts from. Sure 'nuff, it was my number. I again told her I’d not sent the texts. I’m not sure she believed me, but she let it go. We agreed it was weird, and went our separate ways. I told her I’d try not to send any more ghost texts. So, yeah, I dunno what the hell happened there. It hasn’t happened since, which I guess is all that matters. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/4 "2010-05-14T07:08:20Z")
Them: where are the goats? Me: is this a bad joke? Them: no. You left pasture open again. Me: Uhm… I think you have the wrong number. Them: sorry. For future reference, goats do not stay in pastures if the door is open. Me: noted. Something to that effect… Apparently, i have a very similar number to a goat farmer. ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/5 "2010-05-14T15:33:27Z")
I didn’t reply as I figured that this text was so perfect that it needed no response. For the record, I am a 40 y/o white man. Stranger: youmeanassnegro ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/6 "2010-05-14T15:39:48Z")
Text from my son intended for his GF: “Hey, you wanna come over? My parents are gone.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/7 "2010-05-14T15:44:53Z")
I’ve never received a text message from a stranger before. > [@drillrod](#): > > youmeanassnegro Band name! ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/8 "2010-05-14T15:46:01Z")
A few weeks ago I had one that was funny as hell. My son texted supposedly one of his friends: Can I come over? “friend”: Sure. My son: I’m bringing 5 double cheeseburgers from McDs. “friend”: Ok, great. I took my son to his friend’s house, where he was welcomed with open arms. Then about 30 minutes later I get a text, who I thought was my son texting me from his friend’s phone. Where r u? Me: I went to Subway. “son”: That sounds better. Me: Well, ur the one that wanted to go over there instead of staying home. “son”: whaaaa? Me: Oh, wait, who is this? “son” Jim. I thought, oh, it’s this guy Jim that I dated a couple of times a couple of months ago. Me: Ohhh, it’s you. How come u nevr got in touch with me? Was it because I called u Tom that one time? Jim: I don’t know. Are u coming over? Me: haha I can’t right now. It was the next day before I figured out that my son had texted the wrong number and it wasn’t even the Jim I knew, it was a complete stranger. I texted him again that the whole thing was a misunderstanding, and that I didn’t even know him, but I jokingly asked if I could still come over. I now have a standing invitation to come over any time I want. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/9 "2010-05-14T15:52:24Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I thought, oh, it’s this guy Jim that I dated a couple of times a couple of months ago. > > Me: Ohhh, it’s you. How come u nevr got in touch with me? Was it because I called u Tom that one time? > > Jim: I don’t know. Are u coming over? > > Me: haha I can’t right now. > > It was the next day before I figured out that my son had texted the wrong number and it wasn’t even the Jim I knew, it was a complete stranger. I texted him again that the whole thing was a misunderstanding, and that I didn’t even know him, but I jokingly asked if I could still come over. I now have a standing invitation to come over any time I want. 😛 Nothing like casual sex with strangers! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/10 "2010-05-14T16:01:57Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > Them: where are the goats? > \ I have a new sig line coming up! > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Nothing like casual sex with strangers! It’s not as good as causal sex with strangers. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/11 "2010-05-14T16:03:34Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It’s not as good as causal sex with strangers. … which in turn isn’t as good as strange sex with… uh… casualties? ---
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/12 "2010-05-14T17:45:22Z")
I got a video text a few years ago. I had just moved to California and had my new cell # for a couple of months. The video I received was a kind of blurry image of a scantily clad Latino girl with very BIG boobies gyrating to the 2 Live Crew song "Ahhh, me so horny! Ahhh me so horny! Ahhh me so horny! Me love you long time! I’m a 40 something yr old heterosexual of the female persuasion so I was so not appreciating the view or the song the way it was intended but I got a great laugh out of it for days and forwarded it to everybody I knew! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/13 "2010-05-14T19:36:12Z")
Every wednesday while I’m sitting at lunch in the cafeteria I get a text that asks me if im almost back with lunch, from a woman named laura. She believes that she is texting sherry, and I cannot convince her otherwise. I’m a male and a junior in high shcool. Leave me be, Laura. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/14 "2010-05-14T20:21:28Z")
Not a text, but a puzzling phonemail message. > [@](#): > > Hey [garble], this is Kevin, that cat from the bar. Hey, I meant to give you a hundred and fifty dollar tip. I’d still like to give you that tip. My number is XXX-XXX-XXXX, call me. Uh, I’m not a bartender or a waiter, there’s nothing I would do for a guy that would earn me a hundred and fifty dollar tip, nevermind in a bar. Clearly a wrong number, but the message itself is … provocative. **may\_be\_ignorant** , I know the feeling. For a while I would occassionally get pages that when I returned the call was some doctor’s office. They thought I was a doctor they were trying to reach. Happened numerous times. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Creole\_Tomato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Creole\_Tomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creole_Tomato)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/15 "2010-05-14T20:35:25Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Text from my son intended for his GF: “Hey, you wanna come over? My parents are gone.” > > 😃 :smack: ??: nite, charles. I miss u bein in bed next 2 me. me: I’m not Charles, sorry. ??: lawlz, I mean nite, papi. babygurlz misses u, big sexxxy. me: OK, great. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/16 "2010-05-14T21:32:08Z")
> [@may\_be\_ignorant](#): > > Every wednesday while I’m sitting at lunch in the cafeteria I get a text that asks me if im almost back with lunch, from a woman named laura. She believes that she is texting sherry, and I cannot convince her otherwise. I’m a male and a junior in high shcool. Leave me be, Laura. if you have a camera phone, take a picture of yourself and send it back and ask if you look like sherry … ? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/17 "2010-05-14T21:41:11Z")
> [@may\_be\_ignorant](#): > > Every wednesday while I’m sitting at lunch in the cafeteria I get a text that asks me if im almost back with lunch, from a woman named laura. She believes that she is texting sherry, and I cannot convince her otherwise. I’m a male and a junior in high shcool. Leave me be, Laura. Next Wednesday text her first and say I’m almost back with lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/18 "2010-05-14T21:45:44Z")
I’ve gotten several texts from fellows who seem to have been given a false phone number the previous night in the club. A couple have refused to believe that I am not, in fact, the girl in question. One, I did manage to convince him and he still tried to get me to meet him. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/19 "2010-05-15T01:49:29Z")
Not a text message but I got back from lunch one day to find this message on my voice mail: Stranger: “Yeah hi I think you know my sister, I think this is the number she gave me to call her at. She wanted me to watch her kid tomorrow but I have to work so I was hoping you could let her know that I’m not going to able to do it.” I sure hope his sister found a babysitter! ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383/20 "2010-05-15T01:59:15Z")
I got someone clearly drunk-dialing my number in a rage; over a course of the night, I got about a dozen messages venting about what an asshole I was. Good thing I turn my phone off when I’m sleeping!\* Lord knows what smart-ass replies I might have made. \*Any emergency for me at 3 in the morning is one I can’t help with anyway. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-message-conversations-with-strangers/539383.md?page=2)