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[ShowDog]

Here's some hope for desperate gaffers. This guy just dialed some random phone number and ended up marrying the girl on the other end.

Waking up one morning five years ago, David Brown found a mystery mobile phone number running through his mind.


When it refused to go away, he decided to call it.

It turned out to belong to Michelle Kitson, at the time a 17-year-old student living with her parents more than 60 miles away.

Recalling how they met, he said: "I went out for a quiet night with some mates and ended up having a few to drink. When I woke up this number just kept running through my head."

Thinking that perhaps someone had given him the number in the pub, Mr Brown decided to send a text message asking: "Did I meet you last night?"

After she responded: "Who are you and where are you from?" it became obvious that there was no connection between the two.

They continued to chat by text message, however, and days later she plucked up the nerve to make a phone call. Mr Brown sent her a letter containing his photograph and she agreed to meet so he travelled to her home city of Cambridge.

Arriving early he telephoned the number again, to see a young woman answering the phone on the other side of the road. "It was love at first sight for me - I loved everything about her," said Mr Brown, who moved to Cambridge to be with Miss Kitson.

"I've no idea how I ended up with her number in my head - it's only a few digits different from mine."

Professor Heinz Wolff, emeritus professor of Brunel University, said: "Whatever else it is a charming story but I would be against a supernatural explanation. It is likely the number of this girl was mentioned in the pub and somehow this young man overheard it, even without realising, and his subconscious remembered it."

He said the probability of a "random" phone number leading to a suitable woman of the right age was actually quite high.

"Say for argument's sake that every 100 phone numbers lead to five girls, the probability of the event they describe is not so remote as you might think. A few thousand to one would be my guess.

 

[Archer]

Cheaper than Match.com

 

[Raguel]

I got a missed call from a unknown number yesterday at 1:30 a.m. I called it and it was a guy. No marriage for me. =(

 

[Tornado Condor]

he felt her ki.

 

[FatalT]

*begins frantically calling random phone numbers*

 

[the year 20XX]

What an inspiring story of a guy who doesn't want to say how he really got a girl's phone number.

 

[rollingstart]

the night before he was told that he had a sister he didnt know and was given a number to call her

 

[Darko]

What an inspiring story of a guy who doesn't want to say how he really got a girl's phone number.

thats what i was thinking..:lol

 

[Dan]

Seriously, this must have some kind of Oldboy style twist ending.:lol

 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

What an inspiring story of a guy who doesn't want to say how he really got a girl's phone number.

I sense Facebook stalking.

 

[Pokeylongo]

I got a missed call from a unknown number yesterday at 1:30 a.m. I called it and it was a guy. No marriage for me. =(

Hey, you never know what kind of laws they might pass when Hilary is president.

 

[miyuru]

Yeah, no random numbers for me!

 

[Christopher]

did he dial Burger King by any chance?

 

[Heezzi]

Why would a 17 be in a pub as that man leads us to believe?

 

[aoi tsuki]

Yeah, no random numbers for me!

Hey, at least they fit as a couple. i wouldn't worry about the chances of randomly dialing a fat girl when you're more likely to randomly dial a guy hungry for phone buttsecks.

 

[Ford Prefect]

I got a missed call from a unknown number yesterday at 1:30 a.m. I called it and it was a guy. No marriage for me. =(

I recently got one too, but decided to wait to see if they'd call back (they didn't).

Now I know it was probably a 17-year-old hottie, and I missed my chance

 

[mj1108]

I got a missed call from a unknown number yesterday at 1:30 a.m. I called it and it was a guy. No marriage for me. =(

Awww...too bad. Was he not your type?

I recently got one too, but decided to wait to see if they'd call back (they didn't).

Now I know it was probably a 17-year-old hottie, and I missed my chance

....and now GAF will be calling back every missed phone call. Even telemarketers. :lol

I can hear the convo now:

GAFFER: "You called my number. By chance are you a hot 17 year old girl?"
OTHER END: *hangs up*