A few years ago, I get the following SMS on my phone at 8:30 in the morning:
“Can’t stop thinking about you. Tonight – same time. Same place. Miss u & love u (-; U know who”
Now this is not your average SMS. It’s definitely not from my girlfriend – that’s not her style – and I’m pretty sure I would remember having an affair with someone else. And I don’t recognize the number either. So, no, must be a wrong number, sent to me by mistake. Happens occasionally. I leave it on my phone and forget about it.
2 hours later, I get another message:
“I have to see you. I miss you. I love you. I need you.”
Whoa! OK, so it wasn’t a wrong number – this has now happened twice. Who the hell is it? I try think back to all my drunken episodes over the last month to see if there was anyone it could be? No. Past girlfriend? No. And this chick sounds desperate. I even consider going to meet up with her anyway. She really misses me and I wouldn’t want to disappoint.
I tried phoning back, but couldn’t get through. So I can’t get this out of my mind for the rest of the morning. What am I going to do? How am I going to handle this? Do I try hook up with this chick who adores me but I can’t even remember meeting? (I know I’m good, but I didn’t know I was that good?).
And then the clouds cleared. 2 hours after that, I received the 3rd and final SMS:
“13:01 (8Aug2002) Interested? Meet me 2night@21:30 on Cheaters, Reality TV on DStv.”
OK, so it was an advertising campaign for a new TV show. Brilliant! Certainly got my attention. I made a mental note to try watch the show and then forgot about it.
But that’s not the end of the story.
A few months later, I’m sitting at home with my girlfriend, and we’re both bored. So she picks up my phone and starts going through my SMS messages. And then she finds the 1st message from DStv that I had forgot to delete: “Can’t stop thinking about you. Tonight – same time. Same place. Miss u & love u (-; U know who”
She completely freaked. “WHO is this?” she screamed. I was about to tell her the whole story, when I thought no, let’s have some fun here. So I stormed over to her, grabbed the phone out of her hands and said “You won’t supposed to see that!”. With that she stormed out and slammed the door.
For the next 2 days, I got the cold treatment, completely ignored. Eventually I said no it was a wrong number and that she’s over-reacting. Finally, she said OK, I believe you, and we made up. It was worth it just for the make-up sex!
Then she picks up my phone and starts looking for the offending message to delete it. And then she spots the 2nd message. Now she knows this wasn’t a mistake. Complete freak-out all over again. Threatens to leave me, cheating bastard. Door slams again, sobs and lots of tears from the bedroom.
At this point, I decide to let her out of her misery. I show her the third SMS from DStv which clears the whole thing. She stops crying, gives me a big hug, and then proceeds to give me the best make-up sex we’ve ever had! Made it all worth it.
So in the end, no harm done, I got to see how my girlfriend would react if I cheated on her. Not very well apparently.
And I’ve still got the SMS messages on my phone, as a cool reminder.
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