This past Saturday I took the boys and their friend ‘A’ to the pool. The boys had a blast and after a while I decided to call A’s Mom and see if she would mind if we stayed a while longer.

So I call A’s mom and a woman that I cannot understand answers the phone. The woman tells me she has laryngitis and I begin explaining the reason for my call, “Hi, this is Shannan, SMs Mom. I was just calling to see if I could keep ‘A’ out longer?” Right then my cell phone dies. I ask ‘A’ if he knows his phone number and he doesn’t so I say oh, well and stick to the original plan to leave at 1:00 p.m.

Time passes, we play at the pool for a while longer and then I take ‘A’ home. When I go to drop him off I mention to his mom that I had tried to call but that my cellphone died before I could explain to the woman with laryngitis who I was. She looks at me like and am crazy and says that the phone never rang.

I chalk it up to a wrong number and think nothing more of it.

SO HERE IS WHERE IT GETS WEIRD

A couple hours later I check my cellphone to see if it is charged and see that I have a missed call. I check my voicemail and have I a message from the woman with Laryngitis!! The woman is completely freaked out and demands that I call her back. In her message she tells me that she is pregnant and wants to know how I know the name of her unborn child.

I start to investigate and realize that her number is the same as my friends, but with a different area code. I immediately call her back thinking how freaked out she must be. I remember how paranoid and crazed I was when I was pregnant and wanted to reassure her that it was a coincidence.

So I call the woman and immediately start explaining the situation – I won’t repeat what’s written above for you here. She thanks me for calling and explains that she too has a friend named Shannan that she actually no longer gets a long with. Apparently Shannan has been saying really awful things to her and stalking her from a far during her pregnancy. To add to it, the woman’s husband was at work that afternoon and she was worried that the other Shannan was going to show up at her house.

So how strange is that? What are the odds that I would miss dial and get a woman, with the same phone number (different area code) as my friend, who is pregnant and planning to name her son ‘A’?Additionally what are the odds that she has a friend with my name? It is all so bizarre.

I love weird stuff like this.