My Mother – The Accidental Homewrecker

Last night I called my mom just to say hi and she told me the best story. My mom and dad are volunteers for a boys home and so they deal with a lot of kids that have been incarcerated. When the kids get out a lot of times they continue working with them and sometimes they even move in with my parents.

This new kid Joseph moved in with them and he was working last night and my mom needed to talk to him. She called him on his cell phone and he has one of those messages that only have repeat the number, it doesn’t tell you who you have called. So the first time she just leaves the message, "hey, call me" , but later she calls back and leaves a message that went something like this…

“Hey, why aren’t you answering your phone when I call? You need to pick up that phone and answer when I call…”

My mom is really funny and she said she went on and on saying all kinds of stuff just being crazy.

Later she calls again because she really needs to reach Joseph and this Mexican guy answers and she assumes it is Joseph and so the first thing she says is, “Why haven’t you been answering your phone?” Again you have to know my mom, she isn’t really angry, she is just feigning anger – it’s her way of playing. And she said the guy answered with broken English and she didn’t give him a chance to really talk and she said, “Why are you talking like that?” and then all of the sudden she hears this lady in the background yelling and she hears a loud “konk” and this woman gets on the phone and says, “Who is this?”

My mom is flustered at this point realizing that all this time she has been calling the wrong number! The lady then proceeds to gripe my mom out saying, “You almost caused us to get a divorce, and I just want to let you know that I let my husband have it because of you, why do you keep calling?”

My mom said she didn’t know what to say she just kept trying to explain that she had the wrong number. The lady continued to scold her and mom said she felt like a little kid being scolded by a parent. She said later she realized that she never said her name or Joseph’s when she left the message and so the lady had no idea who was calling her husband!

I got a good laugh out of this last night, but I sure felt bad for that lady’s husband – he got in trouble and he didn’t even do anything!

On another note...

My site has been updated with a new template, I try to update at the end of every month, so if you are lucky, this year you will get 12 template designs out of me. This new template design titled "Bringing Back the Black and White" is saying more than you might realize.

This design is about what Posted Note stands for, the differences between men and women and how we communicate those differences through the written word. I am tired of gender benders and equality seekers, I want men to be men and women to be women - I want to "take out the gray people."

This isn't an attempt at hate or intolerance, rather, it is an attempt to bring back the good ol' days where black was black and white was white. And if you don't like it, hey, you'll get a new design in a month.

Somone asked me if they could have my old design and I said "sure!". Anytime I retire an old templage and you want it, let me know, it's yours for the asking. I will start posting links to the templates soon so you can just copy and paste the text at will.

One last thing... I have an appointment today at 2:00 for the testicular pain. It hasn't been hurting as bad lately and the pain has really diminished to the point that now I wonder why I was so worried. I am still going to go in and see the doc though just in case, but I don't look forward to it - it is never a good time when you have to drop your pants for a stranger- wait, they came out wrong, okay, I just tried to write something better and it came out sounding worse - this will have to do...

Peace, Love, Fried Rice and Chicken Wings!