Okay. So long time no posty.
Nothing too noteworthy has been happening. School, work, dog, write, school, work, well, you get the idea...
Until I listened to a phone message on the answering machine.
"Yes, um, this is Frank Danielson, with A-Plus Siding, and I was calling to let you know that the outside of your house looks horrible. Please return my call at ***-****(insert foreign-sounding number)."
Um. What? I wrote down the number and wondered why the heck someone with an area code from who-knows-where was calling to tell us that our house looked like crap. Our neighbor three houses down was getting his siding replaced, so I thought maybe the contractor was trying to drum up business. In a really ineffective and tactless way. Who the hell was he to criticize my ugly blue paint and tacky tulip shutters?
So I spent about two minutes mentally summing up all the ways I was going to tell off this arrogant jerk who doesn't even have a local number... wait, it's not a local number. Where the heck is a 215 area code anyway?
I got out the phone book and scanned the tiny numbers across the U.S. Was it Ohio? Oh I wouldn't be surprised if it was. Those people from Ohio... New York? This has to be a scam. Wait - Philadelphia? Whaaa?
Suddenly I realized the sort of snooty, badly English sort-of accent belonged to our friend, Jeff, who lives outside Philly. I was surprised I couldn't hear his wife, Megan, snickering in the background.
Thanks for the laugh, you two. We know where you live, you know. :)
2 comments:
HAHAH wow that is pretty funny stuff actually. I was thinking you had a foreign stalker or something. That's a good one though, I'm gonna have to remember that.
YOu don't have to go very far to tip-toe thru the tulips, do you? Just go prancing around in front of the ole' shingles and you're good to go.
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