LMAO 😂

ROFL

LOL

I know a president that would react like that... and worse... and then tweet about it and call the other person a loser

While I admit that there's a strong possibility that this is staged or otherwise faked, I know people that would react similarly to this. It's a combination of narcissism and just plain being an a*****e with a short fuse. The narcissism makes them think that they do no wrong, not even dial a wrong number, and it makes them think that almost everyone in the world is out to get them somehow. In my experience this goes 10-fold for those closest to them. They'll accuse their spouse and/or children of maliciously trying to make them look bad or of trying to insult them. Often it's over little, innocent mistakes or even over small talk. Not having her daughter's number saved is weird, and I'll agree that that alone does tip the scales toward it being staged, but make no mistake' there are people in the world that act and react exactly like this.

My mom doesn't save contacts in her phone and it drives me crazy!!! Not only that, I'm guessing that Joel has not had any close relationships with people experiencing mental or emotional disorders (more extreme than depression and/or anxiety). There are a lot of people out there who would find it very reasonable to think and respond the way this mom does in these text messages. Whether it's a result of being abused/manipulated in their past or maybe some type of personality disorder. Either way, it was entertaining. I don't understand why you're getting so worked up about it...

Annie Martin: I did consider this. There certainly are people who won't believe they are capable of making a mistake, even when confronted with strong evidence to the contrary. Things that make it less plausible: Mom doesn't have her daughter in contacts. Mom thinks people in the photo are Brad's family, but upon calling Brad's mom, doesn't figure it out. When it seems she is finally starting to question the situation, instead of just calling her daughter directly, she drives home from work in the middle of the day. An hour earlier, Dad was supposed to have been home for lunch, so she also could have called Dad to see what was going on. This behavior doesn't make sense for an actual person, but it makes perfect sense in the context of a fictional piece--she can't call her daughter or her husband, because that would remove the central conflict and ruin the story. Additionally, interactions seem contrived: (But you love ham! But you were 11 years old! Are you on drugs again? Etc.)

It is a completely unbelievable story. She carries on for two hours doing everything in the world except taking three seconds to look at the number at the top of her screen. After all of her completely bizarre behavior toward a completely understanding party on the other end of the line--when she is finally confronted with the mistake--what does she do? Why, she suddenly starts swearing like some kind of coked-up hooker who just got stiffed, punched in the tits, and told to walk home. This isn't a Mom who is stupid or unreasonable, no. This is a Mom who acts like some kind of weird, angry robot, who can only send text messages, and who can't check a phone number or receive a call to confirm who she is speaking to. In short, this is not the behavior of an actual person. It is a contrived character. She was designed to make you angry at her, to make you want to share this story on your wall. Why? Because then boredpanda.com gets more visits and more ad revenue.

Such an interesting group of comments which I believe boil down to 1) This is unbelievable. No one is THAT obtuse and this smacks of a staged conversation designed as click-bait, or, 2) Regrettably, and as hard to believe as it may seem to people who are awake and aware, there are people like this and this conversation is genuine. I'm most decidedly in the latter camp. I would have been more reluctant to put myself in that camp because, until late, I tended to believe most people were far more aware. A recent news report, which is emblematic of so many similar ones, provides a way to share why I reassessed things on that count. A couple of days, at a "campaign (read make money) event, Donald Trump bragged about the huge crowd that had shown up any the auditorium. And there were insanely long lines of people waiting to get inside. Photos from other in attendance showed many empty seats. And yet, the very people in the auditorium chose to believe trump, not their eyes.

While I agree with you, there is a slight, very slight possibility that the mother's been played before by this particular child. the mom could be under a lot of stress and didn't think about what you mentioned, about checking to see if it was her daughter. if so, then perhaps the kid needs to not do anything like this for awhile, and the mother needs to learn what to do to lessen that stress. at any rate, glad this guy has a sense of humor, some wouldn't have taken to joking with her.

Joel Lee you really are a warrior for rationality and critical thinking. But I fear you may be swimming upstream against a current of ignorance and desperate desire to believe the absolute worst in people. I very much admire your perseverance and patience though. Hope you don't become too jaded and that you keep at it!

I've personally dealt with people that are that level of dumb. They exist... my mom was one of them

People who don't exist usually do have an IQ of 0.

Not to mention fictional

Oh I soooo believe there are people like this. I've known therm--closely.