elevens on a phone
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On the 14th of August, 2008 I was on my way out the door to drive from Nelson Bay to Newcastle to fetch a friend and his wife, who were coming to stay with me for a week. All three of us are active in the so called 11:11 phenomenon, and had been for some years. The drive is about 50 minutes.
As I reached the front door, my mobile phone bleeped, and I looked at it to see what I had received. I thought it was a text message, but on closer inspection it was some sort of error message. (I have a photo of this) But the really weird thing was that the "recipient" was +1111
I was a few minutes late arriving at the station, and concluded that the text message had arrived at pretty much the time I needed to leave, and my studying the text was responsible for my delay by a few minutes.
I have never again received a text from "1111" although others have reported similar things.
Date submitted:Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:22:23 +0000Coincidence ID:6047
