Phoning Home

Phoning home is the best ever, you get to chat with your parents, gab about all the stuff going on and generally get an all round "feel good" feeling.

Today I phoned home, I got my father on the line and he sounded more than a wee bit stuffed up.

"Hey Dad how's it going?"

"Good", he says.

I ask "Do you have a cold? You sound a little stuffed up."

"Yah, I'm a little stuffy"

Now my father is sounding more than a little stuffy but he's joking with me so I make a crack about "Hey are you lying on my couch?"

"Your couch?" he says.

"Yah you know the green one!" I joke "I'm kidding dad its ok."

"No I'm not on the couch I'm in the kitchen" he says.

"In the kitchen? What are you doing there?"

"I'm making dinner"

I have to say the man must be sick if he was making dinner.

"What are you making?"

"Oh grilled cheese"

I have to laugh, ok this is still my dad the man who makes the best eggs, and grilled cheese may be his new favorite, who knows?

"So is mom home?"

A good question as my dad usually is not the dinner maker after work and if he is my mother is not home yet.

"Yah she's home, hold on"

"Hello"

SOOO now is the point where my dad's stuffy voice begins to make sense as the woman I am talking to has no Dutch accent and does not sound like my mom at all. Well I had to make sure, because hey I spend alot of time in the water and have been experiencing cold symptoms so maybe my ears were being funny.

"Hi mom, are you suffering from dad's cold as well?"

" Oh no, I was just washing the dog."

Time out, we don't have a dog anymore, this is not my mom, I am a total idiot and have been having a very friendly conversation with two total strangers. The scary part is that they didn't even question who I was. The green couch should have been a hint. What do I do? Its a little too late to say "oops wrong number"

So in the end what do I do? I pretend I am still their daughter is what I do (wouldn't you?)

"Oh I should probably let you go as it sounds like you guys are having dinner, bye, sorry."

"Ok bye"

I have to say if they have a daughter and she hung up that fast after talking to her mother only 1 minute, they may need to seek some counciling. Still I hope they don't have call display and that this sounded like a normal conversation to them...I do apologize oh unknown daughter who may get flack for the crazy conversation I just had with her parents.

SO what do I do after hanging up. Well I phone my real mom of course (don't worry I concentrated really hard on the numbers and prayed when I dialed!). Not to worry I was greeted by the dulcet tones of my mom and her accent (I love that accent by the way mom)

"Vell hello dere"

Yahoo jackpot I had the real thing. Again I have to say you don't know how precious something is until you phone the wrong number and converse with total strangers. I just have to say this blonde moment was definately brought to you by Bimbo!!! ( I can hear my cousin Cornell saying "you are such a Van Dop" Crappy thing is he's right...sigh)