Phone coincidence
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About ten years ago, my mobile phone was unlocked in my pocket and it typed in a random number and called it. i only realised what had happened a few minutes later, when the person I had called by accident decided to phone me back to find out who I was and what I wanted. I was surprised enough to think that I had randomly typed in a working phone number in my pocket and then called it, but as I was speaking to this person, I also recognised the voice and realised that it was somebody I knew - an old school friend of my sister. There was never any point when I had her number, and I could see from my call record that the number had been inputted accidentally via the keypad, not accessed from my contact list.
Date submitted:Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:09:45 +0000Coincidence ID:7048
