Today was what I called a "free day." Normally I have Bible study on Wednesdays, but this is Fall Break for the schools so we have a break during that week from week-day activities at the church. So this was a bit like a "vacation day." I could do whatever I wanted and didn't have to watch the clock to be somewhere at a specific time. I wanted to just stay at home and do things here...I worked some more on the Sunday School lesson, made a pot of soup (cooler temperatures are approaching...so soup weather!), worked on preparing the cross stitch to be made into ornaments, read a little (I have a book that is going to be swooped back into cyberspace in a couple of days), and had an afternoon nap. But one of the strangest things happened when I answered a text. I received a text from a friend and I answered back, but the strangest thing happened next...I got a response of "I don't know you." That made no sense since I was responding to my friend's text. It had to do with the party so this unknown person finally told me that she didn't know either of the people who were referred to in the text. I called the person who I was trying to text and told her of the strange response. It was rather eerie! At a point the unknown person asked me if I was trying to get in touch with and said my friend's first and last name. Then she told me if that were the case that she hadn't had that number for over 11 years! That might have sounded even stranger, but at that point it started making sense to me. My friend had had that number as her business number as a landlilne and I still had that number in my contact information for her and for some reason my text had attached itself to her business number which at the time wasn't a cell number. The unknown person who was responding to me is who bought the business from my friend and her husband 11 years ago. They still have the same number for the store and it must now be attache to a cell phone...so my iPhone decided to send it there rather than to my friends cell number. The thing that I don't understand is why that number appeared when it was my friend who texted me and I responded to her text...not me initiating the text. Oh, well...all's well that ends well. I am so gald that mystery got solved! I did call the lady at her business and told her that she did know me, as I am one of her customers, and I explained why I thought all this mix up had happened! I deleted my friend from my contacts and reentered her minus her old work number...maybe the problem is solved. The only thing that I have found that iPhones seem to like to hold on to all information that they have ever had and I'm afraid that that number will reattach to her contact information. At this point it is in there correctly...only home # and cell #...no work #! And, that is my Twilight Zone story for today! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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