but how can that possibly be right?
i woke up from a very vivid dream. a few hours AFTER the dream, i found the phone with the missed call. and i simply cannot think how my mobile can have received a call from that number, at that time! it's not as if i got the call, then fell asleep...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:34, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

coincidence is how you got a call from that number.
It would be quite complicated to work out the odds of you recieving that call at that time but it'll be lower than you'd imagine. Certainly within the territory of, say, winning Euromillions, but no-one claims there is a paranormal explanation for that.

I'm sure there are many, many occasions in that period where you woke up from a vivid dream involving your mum but hadn't recieved any phone call, too.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:39, Reply)

well of course! unfortunately.
i don't believe there is a paranormal explanation, but i'd like to hear a practical one that would make me understand it.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:48, Reply)

This was kind of the point of my short rant above.
We (as a species) are intelligent enough to know we should search for an explanation but sometimes we aren't quite rational enough to accept that explanation when we find it, because the explanation isn't "enough" for us.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:01, Reply)

but this doesn't explain how
someone could have called me.

it would mean someone at the school had to be in there at 5am and to stumble across my mobile number out of the blue and call it. i mean, seriously. HOW?!

it's really not that i imagined it as dream-aftermath, although that is the natural assumption. i showed my flatmate the missed call just to prove this to myself!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:09, Reply)

wrong number?
it's possible. Don't underestimate the power of coincidence.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:15, Reply)

hmmmm
i just don't know. unless someone got locked in the school office overnight and was slowly dialling their way through every 11 digit combination, it is a mahoosive coincidence!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)

you are totally sure it was the school's number?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:21, Reply)

yeah
it wasn't in my phonebook, although i did recognise it. so i returned the call by pressing the "call" button on my phone. and the school answered.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:44, Reply)

This is the point.
It's only a massive coincidence because you aren't comfortable with it. Things of that level of statistical likelihood happen all the time and we ignore them because they don't phase us.

Someone being in a school at 5am isn't unlikely. Teachers get drunk, stay out half the night, go into their work at random times just like the rest of us. Perhaps they are pissed and drunkenly decide to phone an ex and get the number wrong. Coincidentally they dial your number. I mean, you don't think "blimey, that's immpossibly unlikely" every time you get a wrong number, yet the odds of that alone are pretty unlikely.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:34, Reply)

i suppose
but it doesn't satisfy my burning need to put this to bed!

besides, my mother's colleagues were on average 50, not sexy young single teachers!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:44, Reply)

There are many explanations
but to talk about this specific circumstance is insensitive.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:40, Reply)

It was God
telling you to come round mine later with an 8th of premium bugle and very little in the way of clothing.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:41, Reply)

I got that call too....

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:45, Reply)

Listen, I'm flattered and all that...
OK bring the 8th, but keep your kit on and leave by 9, alright?

After that I'm going to be 'busy', ya get me blud?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:00, Reply)

holla

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:08, Reply)

only an 8th?
and what would you be taking?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:46, Reply)

Ha!
You know you can only goad Monty for so long with this MASSIVE drug talk before he does actually arrive at your house. Like a long haired manifestation, replete with cognac, Colombian flake and an obvious hard-on
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:55, Reply)

won't be that obvious if he samples his own stuff on the way round
speed dick is not a good look.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:07, Reply)

I much prefer sex not on cocaine.
This was not always the case.

Ideally:

1. Few drinks
2. sexual marathon
3. drugs and drink marathon
4. sleep marathon
5. slightly less marathonic sex
6. food marathon
7. rinse and repeat
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:12, Reply)

I really fancy eating a
Marathon Snickers now.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:14, Reply)

define "marathon" in the context of sex
men and women often differ here!!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:16, Reply)

A few hours, with a break or two in there....

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)

oh
oh ok. i can get on board with that.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Any longer than that and people start getting injured, I've found.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:19, Reply)

A few hours, with a break or two in there.... Until I say I'm done, bitch.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:20, Reply)

I'm far too charming to say anything like that.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:21, Reply)

You were somewhat charming
So I can believe this.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:22, Reply)

Is that a half marathon, or the 'full monty'?

(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)

hahaha

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:19, Reply)

What was I thinking?
An 8th each it is.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:01, Reply)

actually
see my reply above.

you can have yours after the event.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:09, Reply)