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UNSOLICITED PHONE CALL


Upon returning from vacation
From Maui, 14 days living
In a suitcase
Clothes were washed
Iron broke down
In a panic
"I have to have an iron!"
There were five
$39 a Sharp Iron
$69 a German made Iron
Dialed home and hit button
"Buy the Sharp it is cheaper!"
She hung up
But I read the box
I hit the button home
"Sharp is made in China?"
The answer, "The Shark is made in China?
Why would I want to know this?"
"The box says made in China."
"Whose this? I have a brother in law
who makes calls like this!"
"Whose this? I thought you might
want to know where the Iron came from?"
"Click---!"
OK, who did I call?"
Right--my Son's Mother in law
is Chinese. How do I explain
I find their products inferior.
I think I said this is Dandy?
As she hung up on me saying,
"The Shark is made in China?"
Next call went unanswered
So I leave a message
"It was between Iron in Germany
or china and the price was cheaper."
"Common we have to go!"

I'm thinking all night did I insult
my sons in laws. A message on my
phone from my best friends wife,
"I figured it out did she buy the
Sharp or the German Iron."







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