Phone Games

I had my mobile phone nicked recently, which dented my already floundering respect for the human species.

Fortunately, it was insured. I claimed my new phone (actually slightly better than my old one) and set about the process of restoring my contacts.

I sent an email to everyone in my Gmail address book, informing them of the incident and that I no longer had their numbers. I then made my first mistake: I included my mobile number on the email.

For the most part, people were very helpful -emailing their sympathies about the burglary and providing me with their contact information. Which was nice. Those who failed to respond have been culled from my contacts list, so in many respects a complete address-book reset can be quite a good thing.

However, as I sat in my newly-secured ground-floor flat burning one down and relaxing after work I received a text message from an unknown number which read:

I”m watching you.

Being in a slightly paranoid state of mind anyway; and the burglary itself still fresh on my mind, I took no chances. Drawing my curtains and concealing a 12″ butcher”’’s knife up the inside of my sleeve I went for a little walk around my building and found nobody, and began to consider who might have sent such a text.

Today, I thought of a come-back.

From a colleague’s mobile phone I sent the following text message:

*some text missing* if you have not returned the form by the 23rd of June 2008, we may be forced to take legal action.

We”re thinking up some other ingenious ways of messin’ with this fool; we still have about 5 mobile phone numbers to play around with from here (work) so we should get some nice mileage out of this until the bastard breaks and reveals his/her identity.

Unless she/he is reading this, in which case I messed up again.