Have you ever had an experience where you don’t want to believe something but you still do? I just had one. Yesterday night I got a call from the weirdest number ever. The phone was ringing but to my dismay I couldn’t find it. As usual my mother kept it somewhere after talking on the phone. By the time I reached the phone, it had stopped ringing. Generally when such a thing happens the best thing to do is check the caller ID, just to make sure you didn’t miss a call from someone important. So I did, and the number was 999-999-9999. I was freaking out since I’ve never really received a call from The number before.
What is one supposed to do when one doesn’t know something? Google it of course. So I did, and the first search that came up was titled “Phone Call Of Death.” Being the nervous guy that I am, for a second there I actually believed the title. So naive. Daringly I checked the topic and I find out that it’s just a telemarketers way of stopping phones from blocking them. Ah! The joy of feeling safe.
But what this unique experience, if I may call it that, taught me was that no matter how hard you try, your natural instincts take over. I been brought up in India, the land of superstition and weird beliefs, and even though I try hard not to believe in such things, at the moment I need my “I don’t believe in this crap” mentality it never seems to work. On the bright side, I got something to write about.
On a side note: People need to choose better titles if they’re going to be the number one search result for Google. Almost gave me a heart-attack.
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Interesting (about the number). I think it should be illegal of course, for telemarketers to have an untraceable number.
Anyway, the second paragraph reminded me of The Ring, of course 
heh heh heh
As for superstitions… you ought to know that England too has quite a lot of superstitions, as do a lot of other countries, albeit in their past. As for America, they don’t really have much of a history, so that’s probably why they don’t have many superstitions… but I guarantee you that the aboriginal Indians have a number of superstitious beliefs and lucky charms.
If that happened to me , i would really not believe it. Caller IDs out here are seriously messed up !!
O next time - try calling back and sounding like a ghost yourself :p
