Saturday, June 16, 2007

incoherent

ok, so at precisely 1:18 am our phone rang......keep in mind, gentle readers, that with our new dual-hand set kitchen phone a received call will sound somewhat like an air raid siren until we figure out volume and ringtone issues.....and so i was so startled by the noise that i knocked the phone off the bedside table and then struggled to retrieve it to at least make the racket stop...let alone answer it.....parents fear the worst when phones ring after hours.....one takes careful inventory of children not currently at home in bed....and so it was with great surprise that i heard a female voice ask for my middle child.....i was still somewhat incoherant/asleep....because i answered....who?...followed by a babbling string of he's not here......he's in d.c....he won't be back for months.....at which point the caller actually acknowledged that she already knew that.....and it became clear that she thought she had his cell number rather than his home number.....and then she gave her name, apologized and hung up.....which left me even more confused, because she sounded like someone who has been to dinner at our house a few times, despite identifying herself as someone i believe to be a friend of will's from richmond......gentle readers.....one does not just drift back off to sleep after such an episode......my spouse was awake by then, and wanted a first and then second replay of the conversation.....at which point there was a sleepy conversation about just who would call somebody after...say....10:00 pm let alone 1:18 am......unless death or dying or potentially fatal injury is involved......i'd get on up to go fetch someone in a pinch, or heaven forbid- bail someone out of jail....well maybe the first time......a repeat performance merits a night in the lockup.....but i digress.......

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