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“This is Goines. Who are you?”
Goines hadn’t recognized the voice, and the telephone number wasn’t in his contacts.
“It’s Barry. I had an accident—”
“‘Barry’? But Barry who?”
Barry mumbled something.
“I’m sorry, please repeat that, clearly.”
“I can’t talk. Gauze in my nose...for the bleeding. I need—”
“That was clear, please say your name like that.”
Barry repeated his mumble.
Goines thought he had Barry’s number now.
“Did someone put the gauze back in your nose?”
“Uh, no...I—”
“Barry, you really need to rehearse more.”
Goines went to start the tea kettle.
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A fellow traveler on a road of life shared these words after reading “Got your number”:
ReplyDeleteYou’re right — there’s no end of scams, both on-line and off!
My favorite off-line scam is the “found” “gold” ring ploy, which we encountered several times in Paris, several years ago. A guy came up behind us, holding a big shiny brass ring (masquerading as gold), and asking if we had dropped it.
We told the perp no, we hadn’t dropped anything… but that we would give him a few Euros for it (as a lark).
Which he accepted!
But the kicker came about ten minutes later, when another joker came up behind is, brandishing a similar ring and telling us the same story.
“Deja fait,” we replied, showing him the ring we had so recently acquired! Then all three of us shared a good laugh together!!!
We still have the ring, though it’s not so shiny as it once was!
See the “‘found’ ‘gold’ ring” here.
DeleteArtesia (my muse) is still working on this piece apparently. I just made four or five “improvements.”
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