Ring Ring Ring

The phone rings (It is me calling you).
I watch you walk slowly across the room, toward the phone.
You pick it up
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
I watch you turn on the light as though you can't quite see the receiver.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
You press the button to answer.
No Answer.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
You press the button to answer.
No answer.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
You press another button to answer.
No answer.
Eventually it rolls over to the answering machine.
Too late.


The phone rings 30 seconds later.
Once again, I watch you  pick up the phone.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
You press the button to answer.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
You press the button to answer.
No Answer.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
You press the button to answer.
No answer.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
You press another button to answer.
No answer.
Eventually it rolls over to the answering machine again.
Too late.  Again.

On the 4th call, you get it right.  "Hello", you say.  "Did I wake you up?", I say.  "No".  (and we go on  as if the difficulties to answer the phone didn't happen)


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Now I know why sometimes you don't answer the phone?  You try to answer but you can't figure out which button to push?

(this is why we have the old fashioned phone in the bedroom, which doesn't require any button pushing, but in the living room the wireless phone allows it to be right next to your chair, which the old fashioned phone couldn't do)