TELEPHONE CALLERS
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Rr-ri-ing! (Pause) Rr-ri-ing! (Pause)… Rr-ri-ing!
That’s the telephone.
“Oh, Lord! Again!” That’s a busy person thinking out loud as they reach for the receiver:
“Well?!”
Then the busy person vigorously shakes their head and hastens to add into the very same receiver:
“Sorry about that, what I meant to say was ‘Can I help you?’”
Someone chatters about something on the telephone to the busy person. They patiently listen, until the caller has finished, and then blurt out angrily:
“Well?!”
The busy person listens a while longer and then nervously replaces the receiver.
“Mad as hell, some people!” the busy person mumbles.
…Rr-ri-ing!
“Well?!” the same person asks, lifting the receiver. “Sorry about that. Can I help you?”
…“No, you didn’t interrupt me! I interr
