SMS. Found in a Bottle...

Have you ever gotten an SMS not meant for you? A text message "wrong number" as it were.

Well, that's what was happening to me from someone named "Kasie" who kept sending to my mobile veritable twitters of her life:

Hi babe
wats doin
i dont wanna go 2
school tomorrow

Much like the unnamed narrator in the Edgar Allan Poe story, Kasie was setting these snippets afloat on the airwaves. When you get these misdirected missives what do you do? Ignore them? Answer them?

Hi
how are you
im bored muchly

Finally it was too much for me. How could I eavesdrop on this persons thoughts? Her wasting the Telstra per SMS charge for each one she sent? Or more disturbingly, what else might she write I simply didn't want to know?

So I wrote back letting her know I wasn't the intended recipient, adding that I wasn't going to respond again.

I mean, c'mon, I have my own per SMS charges to think about too, ya know.

- Farmer Ted