If you ever call my house, looking for my wife, and one of my kids answers the phone, be sure to call again later, because the odds are that she won't get the message.
Recently, my wife was out of the house, and she received call after call. My 11 year-old son answered most of them. This is what I could hear of his side of the 4th or 5th conversation:
"Yess???
"NO.
"We already KNOW that!!
(rolls his eyes) "FINE!
"GOODBYE!!"
So I asked him, "Who was it?"
"I--DON'T--KNOW!!!"
Apparently, as I found out later on, this was the other side of the conversation:
"Oh, hi. This is your Aunt speaking. Is your mother home?
"Well, I just wanted to tell her that I had a baby boy this morning--
"Oh...I see...well, could you tell her I called..?
"Well, then, er, goodbye..."
PS: If you ever call my house, looking for my wife, and I answer the phone, be sure to call again later, because the odds are that she won't get the message.
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Mazal Tov! And now I know why she never heard that i called last week.
Alternatively, you could do what we did, which was to forbid our son to answer the phone unless he recognized our voices. That way, all messages would be delivered via the answering machine, rather than via the child.
My son would never even think of answering the phone. If he did, there would be a 2% chance we'd get the message.
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