Scouting, Volume 50, Number 2, February 1962 Page: 27
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Hello? Hello?
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y little boy Mike has learned to
answer the telephone. ! wish he
hadn't. Mike is an imaginative tele-
phone answerer and will not permit
life to go on in a routine fashion.
The other day I came in and heard
him say, "Take two aspirin. Good-
by."
"Who was that?"
"They wanted Dr. Goodby."
"They had the wrong number."
Mike grinned. "She said she had
a bad headache and I told her to
take two aspirin. That's what Mummy
always says."
"How often have you taken care
of wrong numbers?"
"All the time. Yesterday a woman
wanted some fish. I told her we had
some fresh baby sea serpents. She
hung up."
I groaned. "Mike, in America the
telephone is a little bit holy. You
don't fool with it like that. Do you
know what would happen if we had
no precise telephone service?"
"You'd get some rest from those
blank-blank clients that think because
someone is suing them for fifty dollars
they're going to jail. You said so last
week."
"For ears that are seldom washed,"
I said sharply, "yours seem to func-
tion with extreme sensitivity."
"Yeh," Mike said. "Anyway, I like
wrong numbers. They're the best part
of telephone fun. A man called yes-
terday and said he was going to
punch my nose if I let my son take
a short cut through his petunias on
his way to school everyday. I told
him any time he wanted to punch my
nose he could come right over and
I'd punch his and my son was not
hurting his old petunias; my son was
a gentlemen and. . . ."
I turned pale. "That wasn't a
wrong number."
"Yes, it was, because I don't walk
through his petunias; I walk around
his geraniums."
At that moment the phone rang
and Mike raced to it. I heard him
murmur something and hang up. He
came back. "Wrong number. It was
my schoolteacher and she wanted me
to bring an excuse for being late to-
day."
"Why were you late today?"
"I got held up by telephone calls."
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