Text Message Misunderstanding

Last week, Ian went to the bathroom at a Chinese restaurant in Philly. The place was filthy. He was impressed enough by the disgusting sight that he took a picture of the blackened light switch with his phone. By blackened, I mean that it was covered in years of grime from pissy/shitty hands.

Ian then texted the pic to three friends. I was one of them (Yay! I'm SPECIAL!). I saw the pic and replied "That's horrible."

A few minutes later, I got a random text from a total stranger - a number I didn't recognize. It said "Who is this?" (I'm sure you know where this story is going, but I can be sort of a mindless dipshit at times.) I thought the person simply had the wrong number. And I like fucking with people. So I replied "Your dream come true. Who is this?"

I thought they'd have a laugh and follow up with an answer. But nope. No response.

The next day, I was sort of zoned out and daydreaming when I realized - Holy shit, that person must have been on Ian's original text. And my response went to them. And they also didn't realize that it was a group text. And they must have thought they just got a random text from some asshole they didn't know.

So - from the stranger's perspective, the text exchange went down like this:

Random stranger: "That's horrible."
Texting person: *(thinking) That's odd. What a weird random text to get from a total stranger* "Who is this?"
Random stranger: "Your dream come true. Who is this?"
Texting person: *(thinking) Holy OMG LOLZERS! I am getting texts from a random creep who wants to do it with my butthole! I'm so creeped out!*

And that's where the conversation ends. I never did try to clear up the confusion. I like this ending way better than something like "and then I texted them again to make sure they weren't weirded out" because that's way less funny.