Tuesday, June 1, 2010

ring-ring



*Rrriiiiinnnnggg,
rrriiiinnnngg
,**

**'Hello?'**

**'Hi
honey.**
**This
is
Daddy.**
**Is
Mommy near the

phone?'**

**'No,
Daddy.**
**She's upstairs in the bedroom
with Uncle

Paul.'**
**After
a brief

pause,**


*Daddy
says,**
**'But
honey, you haven't got an Uncle

Paul.'**
**'Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs

in the room with
Mommy,**
**Right

now..'**


Brief

Pause.


**'Uh,
okay then, this is what I want you to
do.**
**Put
the phone down on the table, run
upstairs**
**And
knock on the bedroom door and shout to
Mommy**
**That
Daddy's car just pulled into the

driveway.'**


**'Okay, Daddy, Just a

minute.'**

**A few
minutes
later**
**The
little girl comes back to the
phone.**

**'I did it,

Daddy.'**
**'And what happened, honey?'

**

'Well, Mommy got all scared,
jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around

screaming.**

**Then she tripped over the rug,
hit her head on the
dresser**
**And now she isn't moving at
all!'**

**'Oh my
God!!! What about your Uncle
Paul?'**
**'He jumped out of the bed with
no clothes on,

too.**

**He was all scared and he jumped
out of the back
window**
**And into the swimming
pool.**
**But I guess he didn't know that
you took out the
water**
**Last week to clean

it.**

**He hit the bottom of the pool
and I think he's

dead.'**

*****Long

Pause*****

*****Longer

Pause*****
*****Even Longer

Pause*****

*Then
Daddy

says,**


**'Swimming pool?

...........**

**Is
this

486-5731?'*

**No, I think you have the wrong

number........*