Finishing some last minute homework waiting for a lecture to go in. Lift up my head and I’m now late. I scramble across two girls and plonk myself on a seat in the middle, making sure I’ve left a personal space seat between myself and the others around me. Continuing to complete my homework in the lecture, my peripherals see the girl on the other side of the right personal space seat glance over. Throughout the lecture I swear she did it several more times.

As the lectured wrapped up, we had a bit of a chat leaving the theatre. It was time to go our separate ways so I suggested continuing the conversation after my tutorial. She agreed and gave me her number adding that her phone was playing up. I called bullshit on that excuse straight away but figured there was nothing lost in getting her number anyway. She went one way and I went the other. With a bit of a bounce in my step, I looked at my phone to save this girl’s number. And this is the point you wouldn’t expect anything else to happen to me…

The process of saving the number became difficult. I had accidentally deleted the last digit. There was only a one in ten chance that my text would reach this girl’s phone. In hindsight – I hate hindsight because it always makes you realise what a pathetic or stupid thing you’ve done – it seems a bit of a desperate attempt but I had put in a little bit of groundwork and I definitely wasn’t going to allow bad luck to determine what could have been fate. So I did what I’m hoping any other person in my shoes would have done. I sent the same message to ten different numbers so that my message was sure to have reached her.

I got brushed. These are some of the text messages I received back. For the rest of that day when I heard my phone SMS (mobile phone version of PMS), I just started laughing. I still am laughing just writing this thinking about it.

I ended up receiving a text message from the girl the next afternoon saying that her phone was broken and that she only had just got my message then. At least there is consistency but I’m still calling bullshit.

Who else but me would this happen to