Oct
Phone Calls
Posted in Random | 2 Comments »As posted on my Tumblr…
There is a regular routine when a phone rings in my household.
Be it a mobile phone or a house phone or even possibly the sound of a phone ringing.
Usually my mum shouts one of the following:
- “Everyone shut up, I’m going to be on the phone!”
- “The phone is ringing, shut up!”
- “Turn the TV down, I’m going to pick up the phone!”
- “I’m going to be on the phone, be quiet!”
- “Oh my god, it’s Bob, everyone shut up!”
- “Is that the phone? I can’t get up, can someone pick it up?”
- “GEORGIE! PICK UP THE PHONE!!!!” [That’s a cue for me.]
- “That must be your boyfriend. AGAIN…”
- “Can someone pick that up please…? Hello? HURRY, hello?!?!!”
Following that, depending on who picks up (usually only EVER my mum or I)…
- My mum picks up the phone and says in the nicest voice ever, “Hello?”
- I pick up the phone and say grumpily, “Hello.”
- My mum realises that the phone was not ringing and it was the neighbours’.
- My mum realises that she has picked up too late and continues saying, “Hello? Hello? Hello?”
- I pick up the phone and the entire family crowds around me to hear who it is.
You’d think we never get phone calls at this rate. :|