People marvel at peculiar texts, and no one can say why
PORTLAND, Ore. – If you woke up Thursday to a strange text that seemed completely out of place, you're not alone. A mysterious wave of missives swept the US phones overnight, delivering largely incomprehensible messages from friends, family and occasional items.
Friends who had not talked to each other for months were sprayed to talk. Others panicked briefly.
The best explanation seems to be that old texts sent in the spring suddenly went through. Two people said they found out that the original messages were never received. It is not clear why this months-long delay happened. Telephone companies blamed others and gave no further explanation.
Stephanie Bovee, a 28-year-old from Portland, woke at 5am to a text from her sister that said "lap." She immediately thought that something had happened to her newborn nephew in the hospital.
She started calling everyone. Her sister and her sister's husband did not answer. She woke her mother, and cheated on her. It was three hours before she learned that everything was fine and the text was a strange anomaly.
"It's fun now," she said. "But out of context, it wasn't cool."
Bovee figured out that people got some of her old texts that couldn't go through when her sister and a colleague both got texts that she had sent in February. The text her sister received wished her a happy Valentine's Day.
Mobile carriers offered little useful explanations for the phenomenon of strange text, which appeared to be widespread, at least according to social media.
A Sprint spokesman said it was the result of a "maintenance update" for messaging platforms at several US carriers and will not explain further. T-Mobile called it a "third-party provider problem." Verizon and AT&T did not answer questions.
Marissa Figueroa, a 25-year-old from California, received an unwanted message from an ex she had stopped talking to ̵[ads1]1; and then he got one of her as well. Neither actually sent them last night, both said. Figueroa couldn't figure it out, even worrying that her ex would mess with her, until she saw reports of this happening to others.
"It didn't feel good," she said. "It just wasn't good for me and my mental health to be in contact with him."
A friend who had just returned to life received a mystifying message from Joseph Gomez at. 05.00 Thursday. In that text, Gomez seemed to assume she was heading over to his house so they could order a Lift.
It took half an hour back and forth texting and help from a screen to clean up the situation. Can the relationship recover? Gomez, 22, said it was "confusion, then difficult, and then funny." No mixed messages there.
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