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This isn't particularly spooky or unearthly, no shadow people or Chinese lanterns, more of a very bizarre and unlikely coincidence concerning numbers, or rather, phone numbers. I'm one of those people that is utterly rubbish at remembering mobile phone numbers. I used to be great at land lines and can recite phone numbers I've not had to call for donkey's years, but mobile phone numbers just go over my head. Possibly because once they're in my address book I never see them again.
Back in Feb 2007, my partner bought me a mobile phone for my birthday as my previous phone was on it's last legs. The phone itself was great and just what I wanted apart from the network. It was tied into the Orange Network, which wasn't something I wanted as the pay as you go deals weren't so good at the time. My partner said she's pay to get it 'cracked' (or whatever you call it) and suggested I have an 02 sim card put in it as it was what she used.
Almost 3 years on, I'm still using that sim card and the associated number. Unlike my partner who is now on her third phone in as many years and has changed her sim card and her number God knows how many times.
A few days a go, she decided she needed to either get a new phone or get a new number as she wanted to 'lose' a whole heap of acquaintances who were getting a bit 'over-bearing'. Her father had changed phones about 6 months ago as his old phone was too fiddly for his big fingers and suggested that she took the sim card out of that phone as he'd not used any of the initial credit on it as he'd not been able to use the phone itself (which had been for him as a present by my partner's mother).
Still with me?
Anyway, I gave my partner my number to put into her address book and she sent me a text and I stored her number from there and thought nothing of it. However, today I realised I had no credit so I made a note of her number from my address book as I knew I would need to call her whilst I was out in the day. However, whilst I was doing that I also saw my own number.
Now, I've had my sim for the best part of 3 years from the centre of Manchester and my partner's father bought his sim less than a year ago from a different place entirely.
Obviously I'm removing all but the last digits purely for privacy reasons but her number is: XXXXXXXXXX8 and mine is XXXXXXXXXX9 with the 10 X digits being exactly the same! What are the odds of that?
Back in Feb 2007, my partner bought me a mobile phone for my birthday as my previous phone was on it's last legs. The phone itself was great and just what I wanted apart from the network. It was tied into the Orange Network, which wasn't something I wanted as the pay as you go deals weren't so good at the time. My partner said she's pay to get it 'cracked' (or whatever you call it) and suggested I have an 02 sim card put in it as it was what she used.
Almost 3 years on, I'm still using that sim card and the associated number. Unlike my partner who is now on her third phone in as many years and has changed her sim card and her number God knows how many times.
A few days a go, she decided she needed to either get a new phone or get a new number as she wanted to 'lose' a whole heap of acquaintances who were getting a bit 'over-bearing'. Her father had changed phones about 6 months ago as his old phone was too fiddly for his big fingers and suggested that she took the sim card out of that phone as he'd not used any of the initial credit on it as he'd not been able to use the phone itself (which had been for him as a present by my partner's mother).
Still with me?
Anyway, I gave my partner my number to put into her address book and she sent me a text and I stored her number from there and thought nothing of it. However, today I realised I had no credit so I made a note of her number from my address book as I knew I would need to call her whilst I was out in the day. However, whilst I was doing that I also saw my own number.
Now, I've had my sim for the best part of 3 years from the centre of Manchester and my partner's father bought his sim less than a year ago from a different place entirely.
Obviously I'm removing all but the last digits purely for privacy reasons but her number is: XXXXXXXXXX8 and mine is XXXXXXXXXX9 with the 10 X digits being exactly the same! What are the odds of that?