So I Drunk Texted my Interviewer

Couple of Thursdays ago on the 13th I had a phone interview for a summer position at a small hedge fund. Nothing big, all behavioral questions since this was the first round, and I thought it went alright. Later that night I went out to the local university bar/’club’ where they offer $2.5 drinks on Thursdays, and needless to say things got a little wild as it was the last couple days before my school’s reading week. I ended up bringing this girl home who I kind of know (friends with an ex – woops) and she spends the night.

The next Friday morning we’re in my room and she can’t find her phone or her (apparently expensive) ring. No big deal, I ask for her number so I can call her phone and see if we can find it. No luck her phone is dead, but she has to get to her place so she can drive back to her family home for the week, so she leaves. After she leaves I text her “hey it’s X, texting you so you have my number if you ever find your phone”. A little while later I find her phone and promptly return it to her before she leaves. Once I get back home I find her ring on the floor, and text her “also just found your ring”. No response to any of this but I figure her phone is dead.

Fast forward to later that Friday night, I’m back home for reading week (we live in the same city) and once again I’m hammered after going to a girl’s house for a party. I have a habit of sending out text messages when I’m drunk sometimes, and I regrettably send her one at around 3am “yo you live nearby me come hangout”. No response to any of this again. I delete her number, since that’s what I do when I get no replies to make sure I don’t do anything stupid.

Now fast forward to last night. I’m back at my university town sitting in my living room with my roommate. I decided to go through my call log because I’m curious if I did anything else stupid over the prior weekend. Oddly enough I see I have an incoming call from this girl at 9:59am on the day that I brought her home (Blackberrys are weird and even if you delete an entry in your contacts, if you have made or received a call their name will still be attached to the number in your call log). But wait a minute, this is from the morning before I brought her home. It doesn’t make sense. I try my hardest to try and remember what I did last Thursday in the morning, and it hits me. I had a phone interview at 10am. They both had numbers with uncommon area codes, and I guess when I was looking for her number to add, being very hungover, I added the wrong number.

Needless to say I didn’t get a next round interview.