Wrong Target Text

I recently got a new telephone number, which I assume was somebody’s old number, because I got this text today (spelling errors preserved):

How are things with thw new job?

I don’t have a new job.  I was working in a different position than usual today, and though that maybe somebody who had my number but I didn’t have theirs was referring to this.  I answered, “You are not currently stored in my phone. ?”

I thought this was clear, but then I got these texts:

Do you know if anything is open up where you are?  Losing my job because I said the wrong thing today and then i overheard his conversation with HR and it

comes down to resignation or fire

I had an inkling who this might be, but I couldn’t be sure, so I responded with, “Once again, unsure of who this is.”

This then came:

Sorry my bad [REDACTED]

My reply: “You may have the wrong number; I do not know a [REDACTED].  However this is a new # for me.”

No response.  This is not the first time I have received texts meant for somebody else.  Once, a random dude sent me several anguished texts while under the misapprehension that I was some person who had terribly broken his heart or something.  When I tried to tell him I wasn’t the name he kept mentioning, he assumed I was still that person being cruel to him.  That guy worried me.

Anyway, I sort of wanted to add, at the end of my final text to [REDACTED], “Sorry about your job,” because it sucks to reach out for somebody and have it be the wrong person, but in the end, as ever, I opted to stay out of it.  This [REDACTED] could be a psycho, after all.

And that’s something that happened to me today.