Suspicious Phone Call
Suspicious Phone Call
My mom got a suspicious phone call from a large bookstore
retailer here in town. "Ma'am, we are just calling to tell
you that your book has arrived. Would you like to come in
and pick it up?"
Not to be taken in by just another marketing ploy to get her
to buy something she never ordered, she replied, "Really!
Well, then, what is the title?"
There was a long pause on the other line and then quite a
string of hums and hahs. Mother's smug smile widened with
every pause, while she thought, I've outsmarted them!
Finally a response: "Well, uh, the title is uh, 'How to
Improve Your Short-Term Memory.'"
"Oh!" (pause) "Well, in that case, I'd better be right over!"
When she got there, they all had a good-natured laugh about it.
Received from Daniel Foutz.
My mom got a suspicious phone call from a large bookstore
retailer here in town. "Ma'am, we are just calling to tell
you that your book has arrived. Would you like to come in
and pick it up?"
Not to be taken in by just another marketing ploy to get her
to buy something she never ordered, she replied, "Really!
Well, then, what is the title?"
There was a long pause on the other line and then quite a
string of hums and hahs. Mother's smug smile widened with
every pause, while she thought, I've outsmarted them!
Finally a response: "Well, uh, the title is uh, 'How to
Improve Your Short-Term Memory.'"
"Oh!" (pause) "Well, in that case, I'd better be right over!"
When she got there, they all had a good-natured laugh about it.
Received from Daniel Foutz.
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