Not a text, but a phone call.

About 10 years ago, maybe more I was sleeping and around 2am I got a phone call from "AHS - ACH" which is "Alberta Health Services, Alberta Children's Hospital". My wife is a nurse and she works at the ACH so I groggily answered. On the other end was an upset sounding woman and she just said "can you come get me, my phone and car are dead in the parking lot". Sure babe, no problem.

I get in my truck and make my way over to the hospital booster cables and charging cord in hand. I'm gonna be a goddamn hero, I might even get a little special something something out of this I'm thinking to myself. I realize on the way that I forgot MY phone at home. But also, didn't really care because the only person that would ever call me at 2am is waiting for me to save her in the parking lot of doom.

I pull in to the parking lot and look around. I don't see my wife's car so I try the parkade. Nope. The other lot? Nope. So I park in the emergency lot and am about to go in to see if I can track her down through the hospital admin when I see a girl standing beside a car with the hood up. I ask her if she needs help and she says "no, my phone is dead but my boyfriend is on the way to get me". Cool beans. I go inside and go up to my wife's unit and ask if she's there. The unit clerk looks at me like I'm a complete nutjob and says "uh, she is an educator now, she only works days". Right, yes. I do remember that. So I ask to use their phone and I call my wife. She picks up the phone STEAMING mad at me wondering why the f**k I left in the middle of the night, didn't take my phone and didn't tell her where I was going. I'm like "um, someone from the children's hospital called me and said they needed a boost" at this moment I'm very confused. I tell her I'll be back shortly and we can talk it over.

I go back out to my truck and see that same girl standing there. I get a strange feeling so I ask her if she happened to call from the hospital at around 2am. She says yes and starts looking at me funny. I ask her what number she called and she says a number that is almost EXACTLY the same as my number. My number starts with xyx... and the number she says she called was yxy....

It dawns on me. She transposed the numbers and accidentally called me. I laugh, give her a boost and we part ways. I get home explain what happened to my wife who is VERY suspicious about the whole thing - understandably.

I had happened to get the call when she had been in the washroom feeling a tad sick.

Anyway, a few weeks later one of the other nurses was telling my wife a funny story about how one of her friends accidentally called someone else's husband to boost her car one night and that idiot actually showed up.

I was that idiot. My wife felt so bad for being suspicious of me that I did - in fact - get a little special something-something.