WRONG NUMBER AGAIN

The following may not come over as being funny in spirit, but it actually happened, and it happened to me.

I had been retired for over a year and just before Christmas in 1975, the telephone rang about 9:15 in the morning and a voice said:

VOICE: Are you comin' to work this morning
ME: I don't know. Why?"
VOICE: "Well, make up your mind, will ya?"
ME: "Why?"
VOICE: "Because we're three men short this morning. Are you comin' to work this afternoon?"
ME: "No! I'm not, b'y."
VOICE: "Are you comin' tomorrow?"
ME: "I'll have to think about it."
VOICE: "By gosh! You left here yesterday with a lot of stuff unfinished. What am I goin' to do about that?"
ME: "Well, I'm not goin' to do anything about it."
VOICE: "Well, you better start thinkin' about gettin' in here, or else."

The conversation kept on like this for about three or four minutes and then, in exasperation, the voice said, "This is not Jim, is it?" I replied, "No, you didn't ask me." The voice started to laugh and hung up.



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