Article Contributed on: 3/19/2007 11:58:01 PM
The problem with speed dial is that the person who went to the difficulty of programming YOUR phone number into the memory of THEIR phone is likely to use it.
Often...
A recent case in point for me was a call I received from The Wif. Now normally, she's one to cast off the shackles of speed dial in favor of having to punch in the numbers herself, lest she be in a location without speed dial and forget the actual number. But between you and me, I think that being equipped with a cell and having to focus her life on tending to 3 tiny persons might have changed her attitude towards pushing a single button in order to connect with me.
So it was no surprise that MY cell started ringing and identified The Wif as the caller. What was a surprise was the start of the conversation:
"You'll probably find this funny, although I didn't" she started. I have to admit to being confused here: am I expected to find her upcoming story funny, or does she expect me to side with her? Thankfully, her exasperated tone gave it away.
"YOUR boys were playing in the humidifier today and they managed to get themselves completely soaked in the process." Granted - that's pretty funny - but I'd decided to withhold my comments until I'd heard the whole story.
"Once they'd soaked their clothes," she continued, "I noticed that they'd also soaked through their diapers." Don't try to get ahead of me, but most of you can imagine the payload previously held within the confines of their diapers. And the various methods by which said payload now escaped those boundaries.
Hilarious? Only if you weren't there, I suppose. So after The Wif finished her story, my only answer was, "No. I don't think that's even the least bit funny."
And then I ended the conversation before she was able to hear me bust out laughing...
Chris Stone is a slightly different - hopefully better - Father and man than he was yesterday...