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How about this one:

Our two players were travelling over to the Folly, and we knew by 6.00pm that we were going to arrive late (unavoidable problems at work). We eventually arrived at 8.40pm to find the two players from the Folly had already gone home! We had spent the previous two and a half hours trying to contact them to say that we were running late, but kept getting that the given number was not accepting incoming calls.

So we looked at the secretary list and found that he was using the same number as the venue itself. (Apparently the pub had been taken over the previous week, and the number had changed - nobody had thought to let Mark know!

So we arrive late, leave a message with a fellow pool team member who was there for the night to relay to them, and find that the next day they are claiming a win!