Under the first ring you could hear another. It was quieter, almost imperceptible, it was almost unnoticeable, but it was there. It was odd.
"Hello."
"Umm, oh, hi."
There was a long pause here as the caller recollected his thoughts.
"Hello?" questioned the receiver, this time a bit agitated.
"Yeah, heh, sorry about that, um, hi this is Eric Cottrell, from your ward--" he let his voice trail off, waiting for some sign of recognition.
"Hi Eric."
"I was calling about the ward directory."
"Oh, yeah?"
"Yeah, umm, I was calling because we don't have your picture and I was wondering if I could stop by in about an hour or so to take it. Would that be cool?"
"Oh, no, I'm actually going out right now. Sorry."
"Oh, no don't worry about it man; but do you think there would be a better time that I could stop by? Maybe tomorrow? Or maybe I could just get it off of Facebook?"
"Well, you know, I really don't think so... to be honest I don't really want to have my picture in the directory."
"Umm..." now there was another pause as the caller recollected his train of thought. "What?" he said to himself, "who gives a freak about their picture in some stupid directory. Its not like anyone's going to do anything weird with it... that's just odd."
"Hey, if you want, you can just put something funny in there or whatever. I just don't really want to be associated with a directory, okay?"
"Uh, yeah, okay, no problem man. Well, uh, thanks again. Talk to you later."
"Yeah, cool. Talk to you later."
It was until years later that the caller saw the headline-- "PROVO BOY DIES IN HORRIBLE PAPERCUT-DIRECTORY INCIDENT: FAMILY SHOCKED."
4 comments:
Brian you are so strange sometimes!
Hahaha! did this really happen... because it made me laugh out loud. I hope this did happen, and I hope you put something stupid in the directory. oh and when I first saw the post I thought it was going to be about Jimmy Stewart (My MOST favorite actor) (EVER). I was a little sad when it was not, but I will get over it. Strangely enough, Just last week I watched this movie with good ol' James - "Harvey" was the name of the movie. It was about an imaginary friend in the form of a giant bunny rabbit! I loved it. I hope you have seen it. This Christmas can we watch "it's a wonderful life?"... i am asking you, (Brian Boyer) a serious question, so if you are not ready for that kind of commitment, let me know.
Anyways, I hope that sometimes you sit on your roof and think of me.
That was awesome. I loved that the ending was so abrupt. Cool post boyer.
hey, sign up on the maui website, and instead of voting for the tshirts on there, vote for a t-shirt with poppop on shamu!
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