A teen called me and asked if I was her father (which may be possible ?). What do I do now ?
Hi, so this just happened and needless to say that's some weird stuff.. I really feel like I'm in a bad American flick.
I also have to say that sometimes I really am dense as hell so please excuse me if I didn't catch up with what was happening in the moment.
To be short, I've been harassed by calls from hidden number for about a week now, and for once I was by my phone when it rang, and in enough of a good mood to answer. Here's approximately what was said (was in french but here it is roughly translated) :
Me - Hello ?
Girl - Well uh hello, I hope it's not weird but...
Me - ...well yeah go on ?
Girl - Do you think you could be my father ?
Me - (thinking it was a prank) Haha well no I don't have any kids sooo...
Girl - Oh, ok
Me - (a bit autistic, trying to say I was in on the fact that it was indeed a prank) Well you do call me from a hidden number
Girl - Yes well I don't know I'm currently trying a list of blocked numbers
Me - (as dense as ever, thinking that it was such a random thing to say) Oh ok nice, well good night ?
Girl - Uh yes good night
And then I dumbly hung up.
To give a bit of detail : I tried to be nice/nonchalant because I quite liked the prank calls I myself did as a teen and didn't want to be so rude to discourage the kid, but didn't have much time for a prank call so kinda stopped her in her tracks. The kid in the other hand she sounded a bit nervous, and like she was trying to establish contact, plus had some kind of nervous laughs all throughout. The kid sounded like she was maybe between 12 and 15, 16 at most, and I'm 33 right now. I also had more than a bit of success with girls as a teen and for a time was kind of with someone new every other weekend, trying to forget a bad break up, and having some one night stands in between. I think I've been blocked from a few phones back then, which would maybe give some credit to the idea.
The thing is, the interaction was so genuine on her part, plus I realized later that she would indeed probably search through a list of blocked phone if ever she was trying to reach for an unknown dad, and now I think that's what she was trying to convey. Clearly the conversation now has fully sinked in and I'm like 90% sure this kid was indeed her searching for her father.
Now, receiving some answer about whether I'm indeed the father of this kid or not is very very tantalizing to say the least, and I'm cursing at myself not to have asked for the name of this girl's mother. In the other hand I'd have to reach a lot of women out of the blue with this weird story if I wanted to investigate by myself, with some of them that it would cringe me a lot to do so.
Do you have any idea other than bringing every single one of my exes and one night stands from ~15 years ago in a group chat, to try and know more about all this ? (When I also probably am not this girl's father in any way ?) Should I even try ? Are there any other options I didn't think of ?