YPSILANTI, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – What started as a sweet safety gesture from a mom of a 12-year-old turned into a viral headache after her phone number showed up on the wall at Cedar Point Amusement Park’s Cedar Creek Mine Ride. Now, thanks to some theme park graffiti, her phone is blowing up like a Tilt-a-Whirl in July.

According to a story in the Detroit Free Press, Ashlee Roberts of Ypsilanti has been dealing with endless phone calls from strangers ever since her phone number appeared at Cedar Point, an amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio. The park is known to midwesterners as “the” place to go if you want to ride roller coasters (they have 18!) and ferris wheels and spend the day immersed in adrenaline, cotton candy, and the occasional bad decision involving a deep-fried pickle on a stick

From field trip to free-for-all.

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Roberts’ number ended up on the wall after the woman’s 12-year-old daughter, on a school trip, apparently lost a note containing mom’s contact info that had been in her bag in case it went missing. Somewhere between cotton candy and coaster queues, the note went rogue – and someone, in a moment of mischief (or maybe they were well intentioned thinking that the person would need the number), put the digits where thousands of line-waiters would see it.

Since then, Roberts has been fielding lots of calls. Some calls are friendly (“You’re famous at Cedar Point!”), others absurd (“Hey is the party still at your house, I’ll be there in 20, I’m in the grocery store in the sausage aisle.”) But all of them are annoying, especially when you’re trying to keep your line open for actual important calls.

Roberts put a post on Facebook in a group called Cedar Point Nation and said, “It’s not the end of the world, nobody has been rude or disrespectful. It’s just getting a little old.”

Paging park management: maybe wipe the wall?

To make matters worse, the number might still on the wall, etched into theme park legend while the mom’s patience thins out. Efforts to reach the Cedar Point spokesperson for an update on the problem have been met with silence.

So how many people have called? Dozens? Hundreds? Roberts hasn’t counted – but it’s enough to make her consider ditching the number she’s had for nearly two decades.

Throwback to trouble.

The incident brings to mind the 1981 song “867-5309/Jenny” by Tommy Tutone, which had fans dialing the number non-stop. Turns out, it belonged to real people – Charles and Maurine Shambarger of Akron, Ohio. Unfamiliar with the song, they were flooded with calls and had to take their phone off the hook at night, back when phones still had cords, according to a report by the Akron Beacon Journal later republished by the Detroit Free Press.