I inadvertently started beef between two random old men in the next county over by not picking up my phone for a month and a half and unfortunately I am not making this up.
About a month and a half ago, I started getting phone calls from a number I don’t have saved at strange times of day. I assumed it was a scammer spoofing a local number and I moved on with my life because no way are you guys getting my identity get fucked. I never check my voicemails since they’re all just from my mom when she can’t get ahold of me at work and they’re usually just her trying to figure out how to hang up her phone so I just don’t bother.
Anyway turns out I probably should have checked them but man fuck dude I did not realize I was getting voice mails from this random number. Until today.
My phone blows up in my last hour of work and I miss the first 10 minutes of it bc I’m at work and I’m busy. Finally I heard the buzzing and I was like huh that’s more than just my discords blowing up about some pookie doing something so I look at my phone. At that moment I forget all about the fact that I’ve had this number from the next county over calling me, so I actually get freaked out because I am a full time care provider for my grandmother who’s had cancer for upwards of ten years. I immediately think something CATASTROPHIC has happened and that’s a family friend or a hospital trying to get ahold of me, not aided by the fact that my phone showed me a transcript of a message that just said “call me back as soon as you can” before another phone call lit up my screen.
I hastily tied up loose ends, hands shaking, overstimulated, all while my phone is blowing up. I finally pick up in my best, albeit shaky customer service voice saying “h- hello?!” I sound like I am 12 years old. The man on the other end says, very kindly “hello dear, is Todd around?”
My name is not Todd, it is not even close to Todd. I do not know a single fucking Todd and I never have. I am immediately pissed because I have a grown up job that really cannot have me dealing with whatever the fuck is going on here.
“I have no idea who Todd is! Stop calling me!” I thought I sounded curt and mean but in hindsight I was close to tears and in the middle of a panic attack so I likely sounded terrified. Hence why he immediately hung up, probably fearing he has actually been harassing a young child for over a month.
I get off the call and I see this transcript of a message
Todd is in deep shit with whoever keeps calling me. I no idea what could have led to this.
Upon getting home and being relieved to find my grandmother alive, well, and making soup, I investigated my voicemails. As it turns out, I have been unknowingly driving a wedge between these two old men for weeks. I got a 2 minute long voicemail at 11:30pm on Sunday reminiscing about the time they’d spend on the shore at their friend Mike’s house and how they miss hanging out together. Beyond that, I’ve gotten about 10 messages from this poor man asking for Todd to call him back dating back to over a month ago.
Chat do i apologize? Bear in mind I live in a small rural community in a very friendly part of the world, so I probably am only a few degrees from Bacon here.
Chat help
Text him and apologize and explain the situation
Girl what are you talking about add it to your lore and calm down
Block his number he might be crazy (I really don’t think so)
Voting ended onJun 30
