'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?'