Wrong numbers usually mean a few awkward texts and then silence, not an accidental months-long saga.

One woman started getting mysterious appointment reminders for something called CHOP, and since the name attached sounded exactly like a dog, she assumed the whole thing was routine vet stuff.

Every time a new reminder came through, she canceled it, hoping whoever was behind the number would eventually catch on and stop texting.

That pattern went on for nearly five months before she finally looked up what CHOP actually stood for. It wasn’t a vet. It was the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and she’d apparently been canceling a kid’s medical appointments the entire time.

What started as an annoying string of notifications turned into a moment of pure horror.

You’ll want to keep reading for this one.

AITA for canceling appointments linked to my phone number?

I, [23F], throughout last year and early this year, kept getting notifications through text of upcoming appointments for something called “CHOP.”

I initially thought it was a vet, because the name attached to the appointment was that of a typical dog name (think Spot or Rover).

Soon, she began taking drastic measures to remove the unwanted interruptions.

I let the notification slide the first few times, but after nearly 5 months of these notifications, regardless of trying to block them, I just started canceling them, hoping they would get the hint that they should change the number.

Mind you, I haven’t looked up this organization once this whole time.

So once she finally did, she was in for quite the shock.

When I looked it up finally after months of this back and forth, it is the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

I have been canceling appointments for the past several months for what may or may not be a chronically ill child with the name of a dog.

Still, she has more questions than answers.

The part that gets me, though, is I don’t know how it shows up on my phone. I live in the South and have no idea how the area code could have been mixed up, or if they got my number right.

I knew it wasn’t spam because the appointment would be rescheduled hours later.

Now she feels totally conflicted about what to do next.

I told my wife, [34F], about this at the time, and she found it amusing, but I feel a little like crap for it.

No one has contacted me regarding it, the texts have finally stopped, but I thought I would share with the public this experience.

AITA?

There’s no way she could have known.

What did Reddit have to say?

If they were truly important appointments, someone would be following up about them.

Why not reach out to the hospital directly?

This user has some helpful tips about navigating scam texts.

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It’s an unfortunate situation, but it’s still not really her fault.

Something about this whole saga reads less like a mix-up and more like a bonafide text scam.

A legitimate hospital system doesn’t usually let a stranger cancel the same child’s appointments for five straight months without flagging it.

In any case, if this really was a scam, she accidentally did everyone a favor by making it as annoying as possible.

Sometimes the best defense against a scam is just confidently having no idea what’s going on.