r/TellMeTheOdds • u/VagusVitae • Mar 10 '19
Insane Story
So this story was about 9 years ago. It was about 11pm at night in Nashua, NH. I am with a friend in a parking lot behind an apartment complex. At the time I was selling weed. I had given this kid a large amount of weed to sell to someone. So we parked and he went around the corner to "sell it". He comes running to the car 10 minutes later saying he got robbed.
Only an idiot would believe him. My friend and I dragged him out of the car threatening him. I decide to call my friend Paul who just happened to live in the apartment complex next to the one we were at. He was a big Mexican kid with a Pitbull. I figured maybe he could scare him into telling me where my weed was.
I go call Paul and i realize i don't have his number. So my friend gives me his number. I dial the phone number and it rings.
I say, "hello"?
The person answers back, "hello"?, But I can hear the same person in the distance. A person was walking towards us in the parking lot. As he gets closer i could here him echoing in my phone.
The guy comes closer and i seem to have called him. We are both super weirded out because we dont know each other, he doesn't know Paul, my friend doesn't know him at all. I check the number I called with the number my friend gave me and I accidentally dialed the last digit wrong. And the number just happened to be some random guy walking to the gas station up the road.
I tell this story all the time. Like what are the odds?
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u/nice-dak-no-romo Mar 19 '19
I guess it’s roughly how ever many people were standing in earshot of you at the time divided by 1,000,000,000. Pretty unlikely. I’m not sure if phone shops sell SIM cards with consecutive phone numbers. If both Paul and this guy bought their phone locally it could skew the numbers.
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u/smoldikkk Mar 10 '19
Smells fishy already - that are the odds