August 4, 2008
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EDIT
When I read the story below to Ken, he reminded me of something I forgot. So, here is the edited version:
HOW OLD PEOPLE HAVE FUN!
The scenario: Nancy and Ken sitting in the living room in their respective recliners, which are located about 2 ft. apart. Ken is watching tv, Nancy is figuring out how her new cell phone works.
Nancy: dialing their home phone number. Cordless phone next to Ken rings.
Ken always hands the phone to Nancy when it rings, because it it usually for her.
Ken is not paying attention to what Nancy is doing, and starts to hand her the phone.
Nancy: “I’m busy here, you answer it”.
Ken: ” Hello??”
Nancy: “Hello!”
Ken: (very serious) “Who is this?”
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Now, which one of us is ready for the loony bin??
Do any of you read my favorite comic strip “Pickles”, about the elderly couple? This reminds me of something they would do.
Once Ken realized it was me on the phone, he started laughing and talking to me—over the phone. I told him he could hang up now.
Comments (17)
Frank had an aversion to answering the phone too-he used the excuse that I got al the calls ! Is it a “man thing” ? I had a good laugh at your ” pickle ”
Marie
Thanks for the laugh this morning! Too funny!!
How funny was that!? You all are too much! Hi to Ken.
LOL your too cute…. love your change at your site!
ROFL – ME OH MY. There are no words.
Dear Nancy,
Thanks for the laugh.
I still don’t have a cellphone. I hardly ever used our cordless phone when Joel was alive. Most of my “friends” these days seem to be online. After his death, I’ve been keeping the handset in whatever room I happen to be in , and it needs to be recharged after a while. At first I didn’t understand why the phone kept “beeping” until I realized it was telling me it needed to be recharged.
Also thanks for offering me condolences last month, and for keeping up visiting even though I haven’t been visiting that much.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
Thanks for a good chuckle – I can just see Elmer and I doing the same thing (we too sit about 2 ft apart while watching TV and he does not like to answer the phone either) Cell phones are not part of our life yet – I would love to have one but there is just nothing so far we would use it for, and the cost here for the very limited service is way overpriced.
Hey, you and Ken copied some of our goings on! lol It doesn’t matter if Wil is sitting right by the phone and I’m 3 rooms away he will literally not answer it unless I yell at him to do it. If we are both sitting there and it rings he hands it to me even if he has to get up and get it to do it. What is with them!!! It really burns me when I run answer it and it is for him and he was sitting right beside it! MEN! The kind of scenario you presented is one of the things that makes son tell us we are just sitting here waiting to die. He hasn’t a clue!
You guys are so cute! Hey, cell phones can be tricky; it could happen to anyone. : D
I haven’t been here for a month and just caught up on your news. I am so sorry to hear about Dustin and Savannah. My heart goes out to their parents. It’s good to know they have a lot of family close by.
A few months ago my daughter’s pastor was talking to his wife on his cell phone after church while walking around, looking at the pews, searching his pockets, and so on. He was getting more and more agitated, and finally said, “I need to let you go. I’m looking all over and I can’t find my phone.”
I LOVE it! Neither one of you are “elderly”
Did you ever figure out how to use the cell phone?
That’s so great. I’ve called myself by accident and gotten my own answering message. Scared me!
LOL that sounds just like something that would happen at our house.. Hubby will NOT answer the phone if I am within a mile of it. Even if he is setting right by it. He also will not do Instant messages on the computer. If he gets one from someone we know, even the kids, he calls me in from the other room to type the response. However, I have been known to send him an instant message from one room (computer) to the other to keep from walking in there to tell him.
I’m still trying to figure out why the story is here twice in the same post.
@BLB - The first story is at the bottom. When Ken told me what I had forgotten to put in, I just rewrote it and put it at the top, rather than erasing the first story completely. Sorry if it confused you.
@mimiwi - Not hard to confuse me of late.