Surprise, surprise

Yesterday I received an interesting text message which read:

Hi Alphachick, this *recent date's brother*. His mobile is in the flat and when I told him you had called, he asked me to contact you. What he's after is an email address so that he can write to you and also to apologise for being stupid and leaving this phone in London.

To put it in context, the guy in question works in Italy. So turns out my difficult behaviour has not discouraged him. I did respond. Definite brownie points for effort!