Lowering the Bar
By Susan Mercedes. Filed in Family |
Normal evening after work. My daughter and I come home from taking a quick walk after getting a bite to eat. Next up…homework. She sits at the kitchen counter. I stand on the other side of the counter and go through mail available to answer homework questions.
RING. Our home phone rings. I actually forgot we had one until I heard it.
It was a call from a life insurance sales agent about two life insurance policies I own. We talk a bit. Meanwhile, the kid is still in the same room eavesdropping on every word I speak with this guy. She kept asking who it was and all I could do was mumble “it’s a guy” with the phone away from my mouth.
Before I could get off the phone, my daughter loudly whispers, “Ask if he’s single.”
Huh? Does she think my standards have been lowered to any man who can use the telephone?
Tags: kid, men, phone call
Wednesday, March 25th 2009 at 8:42 am
Well that depends, was it a touch-tone phone or a rotary?
I think I could really go for the retro stylings of a man who can handle a rotary phone, because let’s face it Miss Mercedes, any man can push buttons.
susanmercedes Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Not to throw you off, but it may have even been a cordless phone which implies that he is a man who can do it with no strings attached. Just what I need. <—sarcasm
Wednesday, March 25th 2009 at 10:00 am
“It’s a guy.”
“Ask if he’s single.”
That is a one-act all by itself. Your daughter is hilarious. How much longer before she’s old enough to drink with us?
susanmercedes Reply:
March 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Twelve years, but only seven until she can drive us. Cheers.