Here’s a good one.

We are in a retrograde: when this happens, with >>> Mercury, <<<< communication gets bollixed. Means of communication get wonky. Come to think of it, I still do not have my phone issues resolved with Verizon. Sometimes communication gets really tangled, misconstrued, lost. Other times things that have gone unresolved pop-up and get closure.

This was one heckuva pop-up! But there is no closure…

My nephew received an iPhone for his High School graduation and while he was in Florida with his folks recently, visiting grandma, (the very grandma who will be moving back to New York City in a few weeks) we discovered that we had a free venue for communication from phone to phone. He sent photos and videos and it was great. I gave my iPhone messaging alert the sound of crickets (pretty cool) and they chirped for a few days.

I knew the family had come home over the weekend so when the crickets chirped last night as I was getting into bed I figured it was my nephew with a news update or just checking in.

This is what I saw, click to enlarge:

The message I got was not from my nephew although the young man might have been the same age. It was from a complete stranger. Where you see the words “Ignore Spam” there had been a phone number with a 401 (Providence, Rhode Island) area code.

My first reaction was, “What the hell–who the hell is this?? How did this person get MY number?” It was mysterious because usually messages are likely between people you are in contact with. Instead of there being a phone number at the top of the screen you’d see a name. Could this go through messaging as a phone number? What number was he attempting to contact? Better, who was the sender attempting to contact: a girlfriend? someone whom he just met?

I was tempted to message this young man back and tell him I was likely as old as his grandmother (speaking of grandmothers) or maybe I should have scared the hell out of him by sending him a few photos  … “hey handsome!”

However the message came to me it just proves one thing: think before you hit “send.”

Especially during Mercury in Retrograde.

And, I have to say I am also grateful … the guy could have been Anthony Weiner.