Do you even pick up the phone and are so sure you know who it is that you answer it with some funny or romantic terms of endearment?<\/p>\n
I do that pretty often these days; especially early in the morning when I get calls between six and six thirty.<\/p>\n
I always know who it is at that time of morning\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6at least until today.<\/p>\n
This morning the phone rang just a little later\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.well 6:35. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still in the realm of when a call comes in from my sweetheart \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who is usually on the road to work by then.<\/p>\n
So, as always, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put my glasses on to look at the caller ID, I just answered with my usual \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ooh, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the man of my life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ooh, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my sweetheart calling to tell me he loooooooooves me early in the morning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c gleeful comment.<\/p>\n
Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m one of those perky people in the morning, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the way I like to do it. Sometimes, I even sing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
There was a dead silence on the other end of the line. After a few seconds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which felt like five minutes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I asked if anyone were there\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6thinking he was just delaying his response to be cute.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t him.<\/p>\n
In fact, it was a woman with a very thick African American accent.<\/p>\n
She said she must have the wrong number and hung up.<\/p>\n
After I laughed I called the man of my life and told him what happened.<\/p>\n
Want to venture what he said?<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, so you are enamored by a woman now? I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t compete with that!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were the words right out of his mouth.<\/p>\n
My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you think twice about answering the phone with a caller in mind\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6unless, that is, you enjoy the possibility that you, too, will make a slight fool of yourself. Just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t answer some like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What do YOU want?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n ~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you even pick up the phone and are so sure you know who it is that you answer it with some funny or romantic terms of endearment? I do that pretty often these days; especially early in the morning when I get calls between six and six thirty. I always know who it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}