The indiscreet eavesdropper
I’m home with Tacy when the phone rings.
It’s a business call for me – a soft-spoken woman. I have to concentrate and listen hard to catch everything she’s saying. Gradually, I notice the sound of the Disney Princess computer game in the background. Tacy has picked up the other extension and is listening.
I attempt to ignore the Disney Princesses and carry on my conversation. Then I hear the sound of a toilet seat clunking against a porcelain toilet tank.
She has taken the phone into the bathroom, and I can’t get upstairs to grab the phone before that telltale tinkling noise floats up to the receiver and into my conversation.
I hurriedly finish the call and dash upstairs. She actually looks surprised when I burst into the bathroom and snatch the phone out of her hand.
“First of all, don’t listen to other people’s conversations. That’s not polite.”
She nods.
“And secondly, don’t pee while you’re listening to other people’s conversations. It’s a dead giveaway.”
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:20 am
LOL!
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:27 am
lol. So cute.
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:42 am
That is a dead giveaway. Once, when my son was in the third grade, I passed by the closed bathroom door and overheard him talking on his walkie-talkie, giving a play by play action report on how things were progressing to his friend who was waiting outside in the tree fort. Boys are weird.
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:49 am
I’d say that’s one for the annals of “things I never thought I’d say as a parent.”
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:00 am
That is hysterical!
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:21 am
Oh my gosh! I’m dying of laughter. I can only imagine what the caller heard.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:55 am
So funny! At least use the mute button. That’s what I do when I’m…um, multitasking.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 am
Yep, she needs a lesson in the handy-dandy mute button!
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 am
Hahaha! Did the other person ever say anything, or was she just pretending not to hear?
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:24 am
Hilarious!
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:55 am
Shut. Up. I cannot believe that happened. I would have DIED. Did your caller mention it or did she think that it was you? God. Dying right now. I go to the bathroom in front of no one over the age of five, so this is killing me….
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:56 pm
personally, i think it’s great advice. the kids need to learn these things from someone, and it might as well be mom.
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Oh my word! Yet another reason I am happy that I canceled my land line and just use the cell! No little ears picking up the extensions!
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I wish I could adjust both mine and Tacy’s age so we could be teenagers together.
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Now this is the kind of post that just warms my heart. (But that is no surprise, eh?)
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Oh, I’d be mortified, thinking the other party thought it was me peeing. UGH!
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
hahahahahaha
Very funny. And so true, such a giveaway.
May 24th, 2007 at 4:10 am
I’m behind in my reading MGM–
And now I’m totally peeing my pants thinking about the comment you left on my blog.
Funny thing is, I laughed at your comment when I saw it, without really knowing the *whole* story!
That’s a classic.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Funny!!
May 24th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Oh God. That’s great. As a parent, I would have been mortified at the Princess stuff in the background, but even grouchy old me would have a hard time holding back a lot of laughter at the tinkling.
By the way. I tagged you for a meme at my site… if you’re into that sort of thing.
May 24th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
OMG, that is a classic.
May 24th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
HA!
May 24th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
LOL!
Oh yeah…she needs to brush up on her eavesdropping skills.
May 29th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Thank you for the smile.