Mark Ellis sent Donna Roberts a text after her ex wrote her details in loo offering her 'services'

A TRUCKER found love when he ­texted a phone number scrawled on a toilet wall.

Mark Ellis, 51, sent Donna Roberts the message “Hi. What are you up to?” as a joke.

It was weeks before Donna realised how Mark had got her number

Her spiteful ex had written her number on the wall of a public toilet offering her services

He had seen graffiti left by her spiteful ex saying: “If you want a good shag call Donna on . . . ”

The puzzled legal secretary replied: “Who is this?”

The pair struck up a conversation, met days later — and eventually fell for each other.

Donna, of Brighouse, West Yorks, said: “I should thank my ex — he did me a favour.”

The couple’s children do not know how Mum and Dad met

Mark was on the way to his local pub in Garforth when he popped to the public loo.

He said: “I was curious to know if it was a real human being. We still laugh about it.”

Donna and Mark still laugh about how he contacted her after reading her number on the wall of a public loo

Donna said: “It was days be­fore he told me how he got my number.

“I was stunned. I had to get a new phone so no one else could ring.”

They now have two kids of eight and nine, who do not know how Mum and Dad met.

Donna said: “I usually say that he texted me by mistake.”