[Gurkin]

Subject: Phone call from Daddy


Ring - Ring

'Hello?'
'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 gotan 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 phonedown on the table,run upstairsand knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy that Daddy's carjust pulled into the driveway.'



'Okay Daddy, just a minute.'










A few minutes laterthe 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?



This is 486-5731?'