Early a.m. phone call from ?‏

Myrna wrote: We were waked up this morning by a 6 a.m. phone call from an inmate from somewhere. Dad thought it sounded like a familiar voice but he dropped the phone and cut off the call. A quick call to several of you and we realized that you were all home--some just getting up, some in bed--and all of you were safe and sound. The phone would not let us recall the number (which had started to go into the answering machine). It was one of those numbers that comes up as "unknown." Strange. The beginning of the message said: "This is a call from inmate. . ." Then it went blank because Dad picked up the phone at that point. At any rate, some poor soul used his one phone call to call the wrong number. So no more worries about any of you having too many unpaid speeding tickets and speeding to work one more time. Rational thought soon emerged and we realized that NONE of you would be speeding to work at that time in the morning. (Hopefully, NONE of you would be speeding to work period. Those were the days of your youth, right?) SIGH! What a relief. At any rate, apologies are in order. Thanks for being such great kids and making it so that we don't have to be worried about an "inmate" call. Now it is your turn. When you get an early a.m. call from a nursing home, well, it just may be one of us. He, he, he, hah.

Love, M


Todd wrote: I love the way that you assume we all get speeding tickets AND don't pay for them. Your 6am is my 8am. It was me calling, I just now got to work. I didn't want Amy to know about the tickets, because she would just let me sit there.

By the way. I'm lying. Some poor sap is sitting in jail right now thinking they finally pushed the limits with their dad because he hung up on them. I hope they like the programs in jail.

LOL.

David wrote: Don't feel bad, we all know who mom and dad called to check on first. :-)


Todd wrote: Well, Amy told me they called, but she said I had gone to work already.

Kirsten wrote: I was wondering why I got that 5:30 call... must have been nice to
sleep in, Dave!!! :D

So, is this new email? dvein79@gmail.com?


Shawn wrote: Well, I finally got home. What a long day. Kimberly was so mad when the police hauled me off that I knew that was hopeless. I got one call, so I
called home and was hung up on. Thanks a lot. I have a new friend Bubba by
the way. I can't believe they kept my truck.


Myrna wrote: And here all the time I thought it was Bubba who called. The funny, or not funny thing is, that AnnMarie had sent three people to prison just the day before. Be glad you are not in her courtroom.

Todd wrote: It's a good thing BYU already did your background check. Good luck with that ecclesiastical endorsement in January.


Siovhan wrote: Well ... Grandpa always complains I never call.
...In my defense, it was only 5:30 my time.


Myrna wrote: We started with Jim because he was on his way to California with the bees. We were afraid there had been some horrible wreak (again). Now before you all jump to conclusions, we weren't really thinking about the "inmate" part of the thing as much as we were thinking about the being at the jail because of some awful accident. Love, M


Todd wrote: Well then.  When Jim is driving to California to work the bees, there just might be a horrible “wreak”, but in the business that bee-go is required.

Myrna wrote: David, we are glad you finally have an e-mail address again.

You know, Siovhan, you do have a point. Grandpa does complain that no one returns his calls. He doesn't like his calls returned when you all get around to it. He wants them returned yesterday.

Hey, Eric, why haven't you weighed in? AnnMarie is quiet and so is Kirsten. I have already heard, via phone call, from Julie. Shawn was having his own problems that day. He missed a half day of work because he was sick.

As for the early morning comments--the situation just gets worse and worse. I am sorry I mentioned it. I just wanted you to know that we love you all and we still worry when we get those early morning calls. (By the way, Dad has had a devil of a time paying his MO speeding ticket. So, Todd, perhaps you have been trying to pay a speeding ticket and couldn't. Only the jailers didn't know that. Dad has been trying to pay his ticket since we visited David. MO has no record of it so far. "It takes time for these things to show up in the system." So we were, at least, able to buy the 4-wheeler insurance before it showed up. I assume it will show up, right? Dad couldn't be that lucky.)

As for the concern, there is no rationalization to it, it just is. I am running up to Mom T. when I meet her on the other side and apologizing for wondering why on earth she would think some of the things she did and worry about some of the things she did. She called us all early a few times to check on us because she had similar circumstances. Once it was just a bad dream that seemed too real. I am old now, also, and I know what she was talking about.

"The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes."

That's why I'd rather be seen than viewed.

We have been worrying about Auntie Eva so, had it been a call from Auntie Helen, we would have had a whole other set of issues.
Love, M


Myrna wrote: Sorry, I have heard from Kirsten. I take that back. So only Eric has to respond.

Love, M