Phone Messages

Eric: MOM!  A lady called.

Me: Ok, what did she say?

Eric: She said her name was Marilyn.

Me: Ok...what did she want?

Eric: She wanted to talk to you.

Eric is now walking towards me.  I am in the back of the barn and he is holding the phone as it loudly beeping--signalling that it is out of range of the base.

Me: SIGH, Eric turn off the phone.  Did she give you a message?

Eric: Yeah, she wanted you to call her back.

Me:  Did you get her last name?

Eric: Nope.

Me: Did she leave her phone number?

Eric: Yeah.  She told me to grab a paper and a pen to write down the number she told me.  But I was standing beside the front door and didn't have a pen and paper so I couldn't write it down anyways.  I just listened then hung up.


-----Turns out later I found out that the lady who called was our lawyer's secretary.  We were waiting for that call.  And by the way...the lady's name was Melanie.------

Eric's been banned from answering the phone for the next 6 months--or until he's taken another course on proper phone etiquette.