Funny Story Explination

so the punch line is that one morning Lauren and I took a stroll to Ikea...When mid stroll I receive this text from an unknown number saying "Good morning had to get Even to his bowling league." Puzzled and delighted...I made the decision to continue this conversation as if I was the intended recepient. Pretending to be this person's other??? And throughout the day as I wrote back and to our surprise the stranger wrote back, Lauren and I tried to hypothesize what relation we were to the texter. Were they trying to write their spouse or co-worker or secret lover? We were creating and guessing our own mystery text afair.

Or so I thought, until Monday when I struck up a casual conversation with a 40-50 year old co-worker (Manager) who apologized for not stopping to talk when we passed in the parking lot on Saturday morning because he had to get his son EVAN to BOWLING!!! The words echoed through my body and my head started to spin and my heart started to sputter. "WHAT!" I said. "WAIT, DID YOU TEXT ME ON SATURDAY?" "THAT WAS YOU?"

Story ends by me walking away flabbergasted that all this time I had been writing someone I know...messing with them...thinking they were a complete stranger. I haven't felt stupider in a LONG LONG time.

Serves me right.