**Rrriiiiinnnnggg, rrriiiinnnngg,**


**'Hello?'**







**'Hi honey.** **This is Daddy.** **Is Mommy near the phone?'**





**'No, Daddy.** **She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul.'**








After a brief pause,







Daddy says,
**'But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul.'**







**'Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy,**
**Right now.'**






Brief Pause.






**'Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do.**
**Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs**
**And knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy**
**That Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway.'**







**'Okay, Daddy, Just a minute.'**





A few minutes later the little girl comes back to the phone.






**'I did it, Daddy.'**







**'And what happened, honey?' **


'Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming.**








**Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser**
**And now she isn't moving at all!'**








**'Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?'**









**'He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too.**








**He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window**
**And into the swimming pool.**
**But I guess he didn't know that you took out the water**
**Last week to clean it.**







**He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead.'**







*****Long Pause*****













*****Longer Pause*****













*****Even Longer Pause*****












**Then Daddy says,**










**'Swimming pool? ...........**









**Is this 486-5731?'*











*No, I think you have the wrong number....

Isn't the telephone an amazing invention?