He had left a message on my home phone and called Debbie twice. I was on a business call when I heard those awful beeps. I have to admit ... I noticed the call waiting name and decided to wait. I knew what he wanted. It was far from an emergency.
I called him back:
"Hi Dad."
"Joel ... what can I do for you?"
"Um ... Dad ... you were trying to call me."
"Oh yeah. Listen ... do you know how I can get in touch with the Schmidlaps (not their real name, btw)? They were very good to me when I was here before."
"That was 30 years ago, Dad. I don't know where they are. I can look it up when I get ..."
"Do you know his first name?"
"It's Stan."
There was silence ... "Dan?"
"No, Stan."
"Dan?"
Okay. Here I was ... on my way to work ... speaking on a car speaker ... in rush hour traffic. I was now speaking very loudly. "No. Stan ... S...T...A...N."
"T A N?"
"You left off the S?"
"I did what?"
"S ... AS IN SAM!!" (Now yelling)
"His name is Sam?"
"NO ... STAN !!!!"
"You know ... I looked in the "book" and all I could find was a 'Stan Schmedlap'."
I no longer had a voice. I hoarsely whispered:
"I think that's the one."
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LMFAO
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