We all know that every person's phone number is unique because of area codes, but have you ever actually interacted with another human being because of a mistake with an area code? Have you ever actually taken a glimpse at the life of someone else because of someone else's mistake?
I was doing some reading the other day (naturally), and I got the following text message from a number that I didn't recognize:
"Anna will be at Mary's party. She is really excited about it!"I only opened the text because it was a number with the same area code as mine, and I figured it might've been someone I actually know who may have just changed numbers and wanted to get me their new number. Well clearly I was wrong, but I wasn't expecting that text either.
I don't know what made me do it, but for some reason I responded. I felt like this person needed to know that they had the wrong number, especially since parties are pretty important and it's nicer to know that information is being passed along than to find out later that the person never got the message! So I responded with
"I'm sorry, you have the wrong number! I have no idea who you are or what party you're talking about haha"
to which I received:
"Sorry!! The area code is wrong :). Thanks for letting me know."
I'm hoping that my karma will definitely pay off for this - I feel like I did the right thing in letting them know that they had the wrong number! But it obviously got me thinking about who they were trying to contact.... I mean, we've all received phone calls from people trying to reach someone and maybe one or two numbers were flipped and so they accidentally called you instead, but I've never actually received a text/call from someone who was looking for my number just with a different area code. Who are you, person-with-the-same-number-but-different-area-code?
