“New phone, who dis?” might become a regular refrain for Sara Dreyer. Dreyer, from Chesapeake, Virginia, wrote in a Facebook post over the weekend that her new work phone number is apparently the old number of former VCU star Briante Weber.
Weber signed with the NBA’s Miami Heat back in April and was competing for a roster spot with them this preseason (he was cut Saturday after the preseason ended). Dreyer said she’s received hundreds of calls and texts from people wishing Weber good luck:
Hello Briante
You don’t know me and I didn’t know you, until I got your old phone number. I’m overwhelmed with all the text and phone calls for you. I was like something isn’t right ether this guy or girl (didn’t know who had the number) either died and no one knows ( nah way too many text for that scenario) then I thought geez maybe that person went into witness protection!! Then I got a text and a face time call from one of your friends. I answered of course imagine their surprise when this girl answered (I’m your basic white girl) that’s when they told me who you were. So yay! That explains all the 200 text from your high school friends or every person who now says “hey I know a famous athlete, let’s text him” or the 6 missed calls from your uber driver. (I was worried about that one, can’t have you missing your uber!)
Dreyer ended with an appeal to Weber to maybe let his fans know he changed his number:
my apologies if your friends think you have joined the witness protection program or became a victim of human trafficking. ( how else can I explain your sudden abandoned phone number?) I see by all the text you’re doing well. So keep up the good work and can you maybe…please… possibly let your fan followers know you’re all right and that I’m not some drug lord or secret agent that has commandeered your phone? Thanks man many wishes and hey good luck! I’ll keep answering your phone calls and text with enthusiasm and excitement! Just know every time I answer your phone calls from your friends I making up some other random weird story! Maybe the next call you’ll have run away to the Circus or maybe you’ll be too busy gator hunting??? Ok well then, that is all!
-yours truly
Basic white girl.
Kudos to Dreyer for a pretty clever way to deal with this. The flurry of interest in Weber may subside now that he’s been cut, though. But if he winds up signing elsewhere, he might want to let people know the number they have for him isn’t current any more…
