Thursday, March 20, 2008

Phone calls

Hello?
Hi Mom! (It's Lisa's Mom on the phone)
Hi Jim. You're awake?
Yes. I had to get up to answer the phone.
Sorry.
I'm kidding. I just got home. Lisa went to breakfast with her friends.
Okay.
I called Tante Resl this morning to get some blog information.
Did she yell at you? She isn't very good on the phone.
Yes. I did notice that in the first few seconds of our conversation.
She gets a lot of sales calls.
Do you want to sign her up on the "do not call" list? Are you near your computer?
Okay. Hold on. My emails get lost. It puts all the names together instead of the date.
You need to click on the 'received' button to organize them chronologically.
Okay. Hold on. Just a moment. Yes! It worked. Okay, now what?
I just sent you a link for the national do not call list. You have to hit the send/receive button.
Okay. I got it.
Click on the link.
Okay.
Put in Tante's phone number and hit the submit button.
Okay.
Tante didn't want to reveal her favorite color this morning. She gave me both blue and yellow. She kept asking me "What else you want to know?" with an impatient voice. Where were you married? She said at the Justice of the Peace. Where? I asked again. I don't remember. What else? When was Eugene's birthday? He was 12 years older than me. Do you have a date? No. What else? How did you meet Eugene? I used to go to the dance hall. Otto introduced us. They worked together at Bohacks. What else do you want to know?
See, she isn't very good on the phone.
I was looking for a story. Something I could twist around and exaggerate with funny details.
It's better to talk to her in person.
I'll tell Lisa you called.
Good bye.

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