Mobile Phone Etiquette — How to Avoid Giving Out Your Mobile No
This is a series of SMS exchanged between my sister, Weng, and a stranger by the name of Jacquelin.
Jacquelin: Hi Jervie! Dis is Jacquelin. Kmusta ka na?
Weng: (No Reply)
Jacquelin: Ang tagal mo naman sumagot.
Weng: This is not Jervie.
Jacquelin: Hus dis?
Weng: (No Reply)
Jacquelin: Hus dis? (2nd time)
Weng: This is not Jervie.
Jacquelin: Akla q b sau 2ng # na2 ha! Kng ayw mng mag reply d wag.
Weng: I am not Jervie. This is not Jervie’s number. This has been my number for 6 years. He’s not worth your text or your time. God bless! –Weng
How did this happen? I can think of a couple of scenarios here. The first one is that either Jervie made a mistake while dictating his number, or Jacquelin made a mistake while taking down his number. Or Jervie deliberately gave a wrong mobile number because he didn’t really want to give Jacquelin his number, in which case, it would be quite rude of Jervie to do so because it will directly involve a third party.
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Or maybe Jacquelin was sending texts blindly to random numbers and seeing if she could get anyone to bite…
10man, that scenario is possible.
However, 5 days later, there was a follow up text from another mobile. I’m thinking it came from a friend of Jacquelin, who asked me if I knew Jervie C______n (won’t type the complete name to protect the guy’s privacy). So I replied as I did in the original text, i.e., “This is not Jervie. This has been my number for 6 years.”
So who is this Jervie C kaya? And i wonder if Jervie is a he or she. I assumed “he” by Jacquelin’s outburst.