Woman Accidentally Texts Wrong Number Asking For Advice On Dress, Doesn’t Expect To Change This Boy’s Life

Australia, Canada, most of Western Europe all have tax-payer subsidized healthcare. Is it perfect? Nope...but i can tell you growing up knowing you can get healthcare without any worries, is a right every family deserves. Do US citizens pay taxes? Then they should get healthcare.

How can any western country have parents pay for a leukaemia treatment, specially if you take into account all the amount of money spent in warfare

When I read about Americans getting medical treatment, I always assume their insurance covers it and everybody can have the care they need. But then I realize it's not the same as in other first world countries and I feel sad.

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Pretty standard stuff. What's sad is if he was in his 20's nobody would give a c**p and he'd be dead.

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So, you prefer fund raising or selling drugs like that dude in breaking bad? Choice is all yours

it's happened to me so I guess it can. I think it might mainly happen if you get a new phone with a new number and someone texts that number and thinks it's still attached to someone else though.

I had an entire Jehovah's Witness group texting me. Apparently I got one of the group's leaders old number. He had been in Africa as a missiomary, and cut his phone off. The 1st call sent me in as tailspin. They asked for Bryan. I had just recently lost my husband, whose name happened to be Bryan.i think I was a bit rude. All worked out fine in the end. I kinda missed some of the group texts. LoL

just an addition: I'm not doubting about the gofundme page. All I'm asking is about the 'texting wrong person' type of story.

Surprisingly I receive wrong number texts at least once a year. Somehow I even get pocket called still, which you also wouldn’t think was possible. It’s way less common but I can vouch for it happening to me. Usually just random birthday messages intended for someone else though, nothing interesting.

Alia Ris don't want to be skeptic or rude myself but I thought the same

@Alia Ris I wondered this same thing. When I get a new phone the first thing I do is transfer my contacts over. I can't ever think of a time when I'd actually punch in someone's phone number to text them. Weird.

I've had my cell number for over a decade and I still get occasional wrong number texts. I had a woman accuse me of borrowing her kitchen table set and never returning it. When I texted back that she had the wrong number, but I hoped she got her table back, she was furious and was adamant that she had checked the number and had just spoken to the borrower a few weeks ago on it.

Maybe it was a person, in her contacts, who had changed their number. I know I've had a couple of people in my contacts who have done that.

I get wrong numbers every so often. If you saved the person’s number wrong, which happens. Or someone changes their number and others don’t know it. It’s easier than you realize

I just got texted by someone I didn't know the other week. It happens

I got a text meant for someone's mother. I don't know how it happened as I've had the same number for a few years. I told him I hope he gets a hold of his mom.

I've had my iPhone for five years (husband and I are dinosaurs and didn't want anything connected to the internet until it got to be impossible to buy a phone that was JUST a phone.) I've had three wrong-number texts and way too many to count wrong-number phone calls. I suppose it works the same way landlines work - when someone disconnects their service, the number is dormant for a certain number of months and then is reissued to a new person? Also - and I know this wouldn't apply to the dress woman because she's young - but some people don't know how to create contacts and still use memorized telephone numbers (I was guilty of that for a bit ... as I said, dinosaur!) In any case, it was a kind thing, so it's worthy of passing on. It also brings up questions concerning US healthcare that people are discussing here, so I suppose that's a good thing as well.

really that's your question

Geeze.... pessimistic much? It's as possible to get a wrong text as it is to get a wrong call.

Ever changed your phone? Are you one of those people who can't afford anything other than a prepaid? Ever added a contact? Ever had a friend change their phone number or swap providers? Ever just been lazy? There is nothing remotely incredulous or unbelievable about a wrong number or misfired text. I've had my boost mobile for over a year. I still get weird texts from those trying to reach the previous number holder.

What an unfortunate name.

Exactly. Six kids and ultra-religious? Red flags.

I don't know but I get wrong texts, some in the middle of the night. It happens! Why do people type wrong letters as in "typos"? Why is it so hard to believe that you can get wrong texts just like you get wrong numbers on land lines and cells?

Just STOP! You have no sense of respect, do you?!

How is this politicized?

Yeah, because things were so much better before. F**k outta here with that s**t. You know damn this isn’t what the original proposal was. The republicans changed the initiative and stalled and bitched and only cared about lining their pockets until it was unrecognizable. Like they always do.