At 4:30pm the phone rang. I didn't recognize the number so I didn't answer. An hour later I noticed whoever it was left a message, so I checked it, and the message was: "Hi Inbal, It's Shiran's mom, it's 4:30 and I wanted to know if Shiran is with you. Thank you. Bye"
Ok, so far sounds quite normal other than the fact I don't have any friends named Shiran, but this woman was clearly talking to me. She said my name (and it's not very likely to be a coincidence). There have been only 2 Shiran's "in my life" and neither of them make this message sound more reasonable (well there's also that girl who went to The Reali school too, and at least a half of Haifa knows her, she's like a notorious celebrity...) One is David's girlfriend, who's a really cool girl, but we don't get to hang out much and there's just no way her mom would assume she was hanging out with me at the time (and no way she had my number). She wouldn't even know my last name to search for it in the pompous. The other Shiran was one of my "friends" in grade school (before I moved to the Reali School). I haven't kept in touch with any of the kids from that school (meaning I haven't talked with either this girl or her parents for at least 7 years). It's very unlikely to think that now she suddenly chose to hang out with me for no apparent reason. Anyhow, there's only one way to check if this woman was the mother of either of these two girls: Check the number against these to girl's numbers. I remember their last names, so it was no problem to check that in the phonebook (if Bezeq wouldn't have closed off the 441 site it could have been much easier, though! Those bastards!). So it turned out it actually was the mother of that girl I knew from grade school! This is so fucking weird! Maybe the mother has alzheimers or something. Poor woman. Poor girl.