Uncle Paul?
 

> The Phone Call
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> The Phone Call
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> Ring...Ring...Ring
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> "Hello?"
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> "Hi honey.
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> This is Daddy.
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> Is Mommy near the phone?"
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> "No Daddy.
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> She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul."
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> After a brief pause,
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> Daddy says,
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> "But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul."
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> "Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now", the
> child says.
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> Brief Pause.
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> "Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do.
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> Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom
> door
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> and shout to Mommy that Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway."
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> "Okay Daddy, just a minute."
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> A few minutes later the little girl comes back to the phone.
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> "I did it Daddy."
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> "And what happened honey?" he asked.
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> "Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on
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> and ran around screaming.
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> Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser and now she
> isn't moving at all!"
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>
> "Oh my God!!!
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> What about your Uncle Paul?"
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>
> "He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too.
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> He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window
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> and into the swimming pool. But I guess he didn't know that you took out
> the water
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> last week to clean it.
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> He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead."
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> ***Long Pause***
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> ***Longer Pause***
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> ***Even Longer Pause***
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> Then Daddy says,
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> "Swimming pool? .
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> Is this 486-5731?"
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