The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: phone

  • “May I Speak to Margaret?”

    This actually happened to me many years ago. My phone rang one afternoon. “May I speak to Margaret?” “Sorry, you have the wrong number.” She hangs up. The phone rings again. Same woman. “Is Margaret there?” “There’s nobody here by that name.” “Well, this is the number she gave me.” “Well, it’s the wrong number.”…

  • Smoke Signals

    The thing I hate most about my living situation is that I can’t get a freakin’ cell phone signal inside my house. If I need to make a long distance call (my land line doesn’t have long distance), I have to walk out to the street. This is not fun during a downpour or an…

  • Habits You Didn’t Even Know You Had, or “Who’s Driving This Body, Anyway?”

    When you get dressed in the morning, do you do sock, sock, shoe, shoe, or sock, shoe, sock shoe? Most people don’t know without taking their shoes off and trying it. And even THEN they won’t be sure that they’re doing it the way they usually do. Unless you’re extremely obsessive, your body is on…

  • Laughing, here…

    I was cleaning out old files in my computer, and came across this conversation I had with an old friend with whom I’ve lost touch. The writing isn’t mine, per se, in fact it’s rather poorly written, but I think this is too hilarious not to share. It makes me laugh until I cry every…