Between Kilroy and that “S” thing everyone magically learned how to draw in the fourth grade, every bathroom around the world has at least one “for a good time, call…” number scribbled on it, but nobody actually calls them, right?
British truck driver Mark Ellis did, and it led him to a very happy marriage, the Sun reports. Ellis found his bride-to-be’s phone number scrawled onto a bathroom wall at his local bar and, in what could have only been an alcohol-induced state of bravado, shot her a text: “Hi. What are u up to?”
Videos by VICE
The rest was history. After only a few days of texting back-and-forth with Donna Roberts—the legal secretary who was on the receiving end of the phone number in question—the pair decided to meet up. The whole thing played out like a Sleepless in Seattle reboot, and the two are now happily married with a couple of kids.
The graffiti’s text, “for a good shag call Donna,” was written by a vengeful ex-boyfriend. But in the end, Roberts got the last laugh. “I should thank my ex,” she told the Sun. “He did me a favor.”
Read: The Secret to True Love According to Three Old Grandmas