Absent

"Absent"

The local high school has a policy that the
parents must call the school if a student is to
be absent for the day. Alice decided to skip
school and go to the mall with her friends.
So she waited until her parents had left for
work and called the school herself.

"Hi, I'm calling to report that Alice is unable
to make it to school today because she is ill."

Secretary at high school answered, "I'm sorry
to hear that. I'll note her absence. Who is this
calling please?"

"This is my mother."

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"Before the Cellphones"

The father of a teenage daughter was concerned with the
amount of time she spent on the telephone; not so much
for the time she wasted (he had given up on that long ago),
but because nobody else could use the phone.

So, as a happy solution, he had a telephone installed for
her with her own private number and directory listing.

Two or three days after her telephone had been installed,
he came home to find her stretched out on the floor with
her feet on the living room couch and chatting away on the
family telephone. Her own telephone was resting silently
on her dresser. "Why are you using our telephone," he
yelled. "Why aren't you talking on your own telephone?"

"I can't," she said, "I'm expecting an important call on my phone."
Received on Thu Jun 5 06:46:43 2008