When I got my new cellphone a few months ago, I had to manually add all of my old contacts into the new phonebook. As you can imagine, there were several that got lost or forgotten in the process. Skip ahead to just a couple weeks ago, I received a seemingly random text message from a number I didn't recognize. I was secretly wishing it was a stranger who accidentally sent a message to the wrong number, but after asking around, I found out it was actually from somebody I knew whose contact information got lost during the transition to my new phone.

This gave me the idea of sending text messages to random local numbers, asking them questions when I am having trouble making up my mind. Much more fun than asking somebody you know. So I set about making up five random local numbers, and sent them all the same message: "What should I have for supper tonight?".

I got two responses:

Me: What should I have for supper tonight?
Them: Who is this?
Me: Just wanna know what I should eat
Them: Well I think you cant go wrong with lasagna

Me: What should I have for supper tonight?
Them: Beans. Green beans.
Me: Thanks.

Two out of five ain't bad for a first try. I saved both numbers in my phonebook as "The Oracle".

People always tell me that I am too indifferent. Not anymore.

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