Smelling salts for Alison. My Mother \u00a0phoned me on her mobile ( for the first time ever as she hates it) I assumed something was wrong. It was. The conversation went something like this.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m on my mobile. That other walkabout phone thing you bought me doesn\u2019t work\u201d<\/p>\n
Oh dear I said whats the problem?<\/p>\n
“Well when I pick it up it just makes a noise\u2026one long noise.”<\/p>\n
You mean the dialling tone?<\/p>\n
“No it\u2019s definately not the dialling tone”<\/p>\n
Adamant she was so I decided not to argue but go with the flow.<\/p>\n
“OK Mum… Well why don\u2019t you stay on the mobile and I will try and phone your walkabout phone from my landline to see if its working with incoming calls?”<\/p>\n
“Oh OK”.<\/p>\n
So I rang her new walkabout, as she stayed on her mobile. It \u00a0rang. ‘Oh ” she said \u00a0as she picked it up. “Hello\u2026you’re there”.<\/p>\n
Yes. I am.<\/p>\n
So we agreed it was working.<\/p>\n
“OK” I said “now you press the red button which will cut this call off. Then press the green button so you can try phoning me back”<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
I repeated it.<\/p>\n
“Oh right” she said<\/p>\n
“OK” muffled shuffling “I have hit the green button” and as she did she shouted “yes! yes! I told you \u00a0that\u2019s the funny noise now. Can you hear it ? I am holding the walkabout phone up to my mobile for you to hear “. \u00a0Which I couldn\u2019t<\/p>\n
“No Mum I can\u2019t hear it but just put this number in\u2026”<\/p>\n
“Oh OK “she said as I listed off my mobile number and heard her poke each number into her phone sighing in that resigne-d there is now way this is going to work -sort of way.<\/p>\n
“OK that\u2019s it done” she said as my landline started to ring.<\/p>\n
“Its working.” I said and \u00a0picked it up . “Hello” I said.<\/p>\n
“Hello” said a confused woman on the other end. My Mother.<\/p>\n
“Its me Mum don’t blow the whistle”<\/p>\n
So she now had her mobile phone in one ear and her landline in the other.<\/p>\n
45 minutes drive away, so did I.<\/p>\n
“We are now talking on four phones” I said.<\/p>\n
“Oh”. She said.<\/p>\n
Teenwolf by now was rocking back an forward with tears rolling down his face.<\/p>\n
“Shall we put them all down now?” I asked sounding a bit Fluella Benjamin<\/p>\n
“Yes” . She said.<\/p>\n
“Right When I count to 3 hang up your mobile AND the walkabout phone.”<\/p>\n
SILENCE<\/p>\n
“I said whenI count to 3 hang up you mobile and your walkabout phone OK?”<\/p>\n
SILENCE<\/p>\n
“She\u2019s already hung up. Get me a whisky please” I asked the hysterical teenwolf<\/p>\n
My hot flush raised itself another few degrees.<\/p>\n
To heck with technology. \u00a0Next time it\u2019s a pigeon with a leg for a message to be tied round it.<\/p>\n
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