the phone call ((( ring )))
( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ring-g-g-g ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )
***pick up*** “hello?”
“hi, honey, this is daddy . . . . is your mommy near the phone?”
“no Daddy. shes upstairs with uncle frank.”
after a brief pause daddy says, “but you don't have an uncle frank, honey!”
“oh, yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with mommy, right now.”
“uhh, okay, then . . . here's what I want you to do. put down the phone, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door and shout to mommy and uncle frank that daddy's car just pulled up outside the house”
“okay daddy!”
a few minutes later, the little girl comes back to the phone.
“well, i did what you said daddy.”
“and what happened?” he asks.
“well mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming, then she tripped over the rug and went flying out the front window and now she's all dead.”
“ohh my god!!! and what about your uncle frank?”
“he jumped out of bed with no clothes on too and he was all scared and he jumped out the back window into the swimming pool . . . but he must have forgot that last week you took out all the water to clean it, so he hit the bottom of the swimming pool an now he's all real dead too.”
***long pause***
***more pause***
then daddy says, “swimming pool????
is this 555-7039?”