Apparently, when I went outside this morning for a few minutes, someone called on the phone for me. When I came back inside, Adam ran up to me and said,"Mom! Someone called for you and they really need to talk to you and it's really important that you call them back right now! Here is their phone number. I wrote it down All. By. Myself." He then handed me this notepad with these numbers. Twelve numbers (last time I checked phone numbers have 10 numbers).
And the only thing about these numbers that even remotely resembles the number on the caller i.d. is the 801 area code. Nothing else is even close.
So, what IS the real phone number that I need to call?
Is is 801-314-444390?
Or perhaps it's 801-344-44396.
Actually, maybe it's 801-134-444390.
I asked him to look at the numbers and translate them for me. He studied them closely for a few seconds then said, "Um, I don't know. . . just figure it out."
Lesson to learn here - When you call someone and it's really important, don't trust a five-year-old who is just learning to write his numbers! (Notice two of his 4's are forward, two are backwards. One 3 is forward, one is backward. The 1 and the 3 are on top of each other. And is that a 0 or a 6 at the end?)
(I just noticed that this photo could be a bit incriminating to my character - The Marriott ball-point pen. Okay, FINE! I do take the pens out of Marriott hotel rooms! My kids say I steal them. I say I am helping Marriott with their advertising. FREE OF CHARGE TO THEM! They should be thanking me. Really.)
6 comments:
Love it! Reminds me of trying to take down a phone number of one of Nick's friends from Mexico...he tried to tell me in Spanish and I kept having to count 1-10 in Spanish to figure out which # it was. What a disaster.
HA HA! Too cute :)
hahaha! funny. Just figure it out, that is so hilarious!
You mean those pens aren't MEANT to be taken??? I really thought it was advertising for them.....
The story reminded me of when I was about 9 or 10. You never could find a pen or pencil around the house. I took a call when my parents were gone and an "important man" proceded to give me a long distance number (not our area code) and I pretended to write it down while trying to quickly memorize it. He had me repeat it back and of course I couldn't remember so he repeated, I repeated wrong, he repeated, I repeated wrong...and on and on. I was sweating bullets by the time I got it right.
Thank goodness for caller ID. :-) The pen? I say if it doesn't have a gigantic flower taped to the top of it then it is fair game.
I crack up every time I read your blog.
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