The Strange Phone Calls

They've stopped now thankfully, but they were getting a bit freaky!

The first one I received in February of 2006 when I was off work. Actually it was a text. I replied saying that they'd got the wrong person, and a short text conversation followed. This person knew my name. He asked whether he could ring me and I agreed that he could.

As soon as he spoke to me, he said that I wasn't the person he'd spoken with previously as they'd had a much deeper voice. Apparantly he'd got chatting to someone online, he'd given this person his mobile number and they'd rung him and had a conversation with him. They'd called themselves Para and had given my mobile number to him. Fortunately he was a very polite man and there was no harm done. Further discussion revealed that he actually knew MM2. And no, MM2 wouldn't give out my number to anyone without my permission!

Then a few months later there was an accountant who said I'd given him my number in a nightclub - I don't do nightclubs! He was quite persistent actually. That one was a bit worrying.

And following that there was a 6ft black man from London (his description) who had apparantly walked into me in a nearby town where he was visiting friends, and was able to describe me fairly accurately and tell me I was carrying a red bag.

Fortunately, they seem to have stopped now. But who's behind them? Well I do have my suspicions. Obviously I think it's Jem (who I still haven't written about!) as she does have a deep voice and lives in the town where the third man is supposed to have walked into me.

But, as the first two men were Asian and the final man black, that would involve her having to speak to non-whites. And whilst she does that at work - where she's in a position of authority, her racist tendencies wouldn't allow her to do that outside of work.

So, who knows? My intuition in these things is usually right though.

Para xxx