Sometimes movie-like romance moment happen in real life too. You lock eyes with the person of your dreams, you both smile, and the rest is history. Usually, a moment like this in modern life will end with exchanging numbers or adding each other on social media so you can actually get in touch with each other.
But sometimes that's too simple. Some people like to make the other person work a bit harder to get their number.
One person was really made to work when they met their 'soul mate' – but were only given "most of" their number – and people were in stitches at the man's attempt to decipher the rest of it.
The man's cousin shared a text message exchange on Twitter, and it now has over 701k likes. With the caption "My 22-year-old cousin met his dream girl at a bar and it's going pretty well," it had social media users howling.
The messages start with the cousin saying: "I met my soulmate last night," to which the man replied: "My man! Did you get her number?"
The man, who is known as Henpecked Hal on Twitter, was confused by the cousin's reply, which was just "most of it".
After asking "how do you get most of a number," the cousin replied with a picture of a napkin with a very cryptic message scribbled on it. It said: "Call me! 512-3*1-2*04". The note was signed "Jackie," and at the bottom of it, it said: "*Trust me, I'm worth it."
No doubt getting invested in his cousin's love life, "Hal" responded: "WTF?!?! What are you going to do?"
Hilariously, the cousin responded with a picture of a notepad where he was attempting to decipher the number. From the small snippet of the notebook, you could see more than 40 attempts to figure out the number.
The cousin had clearly called many of them already to find out if they belonged to Jackie or not.
In the comment section, people were clearly invested in the story, and wanted to know if his cousin had found his dream girl yet.
Responding to one person who asked: "Did he get it yet?," the Hal replied: "Working on it!".
Another said: "Going to need you to keep us updated on the hunt!," to which Hal replied: "Absolutely!".
A third said: "This is the kind of man that will go out of his way to make a woman happy."
Some internet sleuths tried to help Hal, with one person saying: "I mean the asterisk is the eight on a keyboard, any correlation?," to which he responded: "Great thought!".
Another suggested: "So, no one is going to tell him to look up the prefixes in that area? Would save a lot of time."
It seems the viral tweet did its job, as Jackie herself got in touch with Hal, giving him proof that she was the girl his cousin had a conversation with.
In the direct message, he responded: "HOLY S**T!!!! I just talked to him. WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER???? He said he's halfway through the list, which means he's actually like 10% of the way through it."
Jackie replied saying: "He may not be as clever as he thinks. Give me HIS number, I'm taking over this operation."
In an update to the tweet, Hal added: "To the internet sleuths who dug through area codes and exchanges, the programmers who sent scripts and code, the excel junkies who sent me docs to share with my cousin, y'all are wild. I couldn't come close to getting back to everyone, but I appreciate it."
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