Hello?"
"Hi honey. This is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?"
"No Daddy.
She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul."
After a brief pause, Daddy says, "But honey, you haven't got an
Uncle
Paul."
"Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now."
Brief Pause.
"Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do. Put the phone down
on
the table, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door and shout to
Mommy
that Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway."
"Okay Daddy, just a minute."
A few minutes later the little girl comes back to the phone.
"I did it Daddy."
"And what happened honey?" he asked.
"Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and
ran
around screaming. Then she
Tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser and now she isn't
moving
at all!"
"Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?"
"He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too. He was all
scared
and he jumped out of the back
Window and into the swimming pool. But I guess he didn't know that
you
took out the water last week to clean it. He hit the bottom of the
pool
and I think he's dead."
***Long Pause***
***Longer Pause***
***Even Longer Pause***
Then Daddy says, "Swimming pool? ............Is this 486-5731?"
