A new one today. I usually have to leave the house to find my SPOTD, but today I found them when I was at home, by myself, offline, and despite this - it was not me that I found. I was merrily (?) working away at home on the computer and I heard a “BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP” noise come from the next room. It was not my usual mobile phone ring, so I thought it must have been Di’s mobile phone going off.

When I got to the next room, the noise had stopped, but since my phone was the only one on the table, I picked it up to find out why it had made a noise. On the screen was a message telling me there was a text message waiting for me to read. Since I rarely get text messages (2 in the past year), I was somewhat surprised and wondered who had sent me a message.

The message was from a phone number I did not know, and was obviously meant for someone else, since it read “DRUNK YET MADAM?”. It might be just me, but if you’re going to go to all the effort of typing in a message on a mobile phone keypad, which is not the easiest of tasks, it might be worth double-checking the number of the phone you’re trying to call.

In the absence of anyone else doing a dumber trick, this person received my SPOTD award. I considered sending a message back to tell them, but didn’t think it was worth the 20 cents it would have cost to send.

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