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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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it's possible. Don't underestimate the power of coincidence.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:15, 1 reply, 15 years ago)
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!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)
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.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:44, Reply)
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.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:34, Reply)
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!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:44, Reply)
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