I work for my state's smallest public university. It's a great place to work but...
We have emergency phones in strategic locations on campus. You've seen them; phones inside gray boxes that say 'emergency' or in booths that resemble pay phones. They have a button to connect and the call only goes to the public safety department.
When something goes wrong with one of the phones, they will often make a call in an attempt to fix themselves. The result is we get a call with no one on the other end.
Yesteray, I got one of those calls. Caller ID told me the location of the call, one of our parking lots, and I made a run to check and make sure everything is all right. There was no one around.
About an hour later, I got another call from the same phone. I identified myself and asked how I could help and got... a seagull.
Honestly.
There was a seagull on the other end of the phone. It made that distinctive seagull cry three times and then I was left with an open line.
So...
First the dog calls me...
And now the seagulls are calling me.
I gotta stop answering the phone.
12 comments:
Well, was the seagull okay? ;-) LOL!
I don't know, sometimes I think it might be better to get calls from animals than some of the people I know....
The seagull was, as it is known in law enforcement circles, GOA - gone on arrival.
And I'd much rather deal with animals most of the time.
cjh
CJ,
Your last three posts are all hilarious. I've been gone a good bit, too -- not a month, but I didn't post for nearly a week and when I got online, I looked at my little map at the bottom (the one that shows where my visitors come from). I had a whopping 5 hits, after a week of being gone! So, I guess people do come back when I post . . . I have 100, today. I thought I just had drop-in traffic through Google.
A writing frenzy is a great reason to disappear from the blog. I might be able to beta-read for you in the fall. Not now -- I'm hardly reading at all. I think I've only read 4 books during the entire month of June!! Horrible. But, last month I read 20, so I guess it all evens out.
Keep on writing!!
seagulls yay ...
Bookfool -
Thanks. It's been an interesting experience, these phone calls.
If you decide you can do some reading for me, I'd love it. These characters are great.
Ara -
Thanks for stopping by. It's always nice to meet another seagull lover.
cjh
Hey...maybe it was a seagull emergency, and he was just sharing the needed info.....;o)
sorry I've been recouping from surgery..not quite all back yet but attempting to see some blogs... I'm glad I read this one~! that's hysterical!! Thank you for one of the few smiles I've had in weeks!!!!
Kelly -
Unfortunately, I don't speak seagull so I hope he found help somewhere...
DesLily -
Hey! That's not good! I've missed you around the joint. Hope you're feeling much, much better!
cjh
Sometimes, I'd rather hear from the animals than the people who call me...my parents were fussing because their neighbors were replacing an 8 foot high fence with a 10 foot high fence. They felt insulted. We, however, live next to Gladys Kravitz (from Bewitched). "If there was a 10 foot fence separating us," my husband said, "I'd be doing the happy dance." Shall I have her call you?
XO Miss you, friend.
Hey, Ceej. I live. I graduated Basic Training at Fort Knox on the Seventeenth of June, and then they shipped my happy keister off to Fort Sill Oklahoma for Advanced Individual Training as a 13 - Foxtrot; Fire Support Specialist.
Think "Forward Observer"; the King of Battle is in my ACU cargo pocket beneath my neatly folded Beret.
Godbless, talk to you soon, and for the love of Benji stop answering the phone...Or get better caller ID.
"Seagull
Number Unknown
Lake Superior, MI"
Bellezza -
Neighbors are so much fun. Fences are very good, the higher the better.
cjh
REMMY!!!!!
Thanks so much for letting me know how things are going!! I'm proud of you, young man! (Can't very well call you kid anymore!!)
Please keep in touch!
cjh
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