Background history: Late last year, one of my best friends, Perry, married the love of his life, Rita. I knew they were right for each other the moment he introduced her, and couldn’t be happy for them.

Last night, around 11:15 (after I had headed to bed), I received an SMS from my good friend Maya. The message was simply, “omfg, rita’s dead?!?!”. When I viewed the message around 7:30 this morning, I replied immediately, “um what?” then checked facebook for updates to Perry’s or Rita’s profile (it was too early to call Perry). Nothing.

Around 8:30, I finally called Perry and asked, “Dude, I received a really weird text message from Maya last night. Wassup?”. He replied curiously, “I dunno, wassup?”, and from the tone of his voice, he had no idea what I was thinking. So I explained the situation and he reassured me everyone is fine. After our call, I called Maya to ask her what she was smoking, only to reach her voicemail. Shortly after, Maya sent another text, “Dexter” – She was referring to Rita’s shocking death in the season finale of Dexter. LOL

That would have been funny enough, but then Maya called me a few minutes later, “Alex, I’m SO glad you called me this morning. There was a power failure at our place, and if you didn’t call and wake us up, we would not have made it to work on time today.”