A Call from Inside

It's always nice and comforting to receive a phone call from someone IN PRISON. Now, I suppose if you have a loved one locked away then it may very well be comforting for you. I don't know anyone in prison and the fact that I received a phone call from someone in prison unnerves me a bit.

I used to have this policy: Don't answer unknown numbers and don't call them back. I will say there's an exception to that when it's a local number on a business day or they leave you a voicemail stating their purpose. That's different bc I have more information at hand and am not entering into something blindly that way.

I am proud of myself for stepping outside my usual box and checking the missed call. I'd have missed a notice about Ally's medicaid appointment had I not returned a call from an unknown number once. Businesses should be professional enough to leave voice mails but a lot don't so I took a chance.

A few calls and I finally got contact with someone... They didn't even knew who I was but they didn't want to give up and put me on hold. "Do you know anyone in prison?" *nervous laughter* Neither of us, me nor this unknown man, could figure out why my number was dialed. None of his "homeboys in prison" there knew of me so I shrugged it off as a wrong number. He's from my hometown and didn't want to leave it at that. "You sound happily married" even though I'm just engaged and "I'd like to keep talking to you. I'm locked up, got a cell phone but I don't have anyone to talk to. I'm not gonna try to take you from your man. How can I being locked up? I just want a friend."

I said no and stuck to it. It was just strange. Really made my mind turn over and over about where it could possibly go-unknown number leads to stalking. Yeah, I can get imaginative haha. That had to be the strangest thing to happen to me lately! Til next time...