sometimes there are hazards to being a wordnerd. in this case, it was fielding a late-night phone call (it was not "like 11, you should be awake!" it was midnight) from an inebriated relative wanting to know the author of dr jekyll and mr hyde. in my groggy, still asleep state, i mumbled "robert louis stevenson? who is this?" thinking maybe it was some sort of insane prank call (it wasn't, it was just my brother). after the being-woken-up-by-the-phone adrenaline wore off, i lay in bed wondering if i was right about the author, and maybe i should just get up to check on amazon . . . so it took a little while to fall back to sleep.
i am pleased to note that, upon a first-thing-in-the-morning glance, i was right! i don't know how i pulled that one out of my sleep-soaked brain, but there you go. phil, i hope it helped with whatever you were doing--and at midnight, shouldn't you have been in bed? :)
6 comments:
ewww!!! my MOTHER reads this blog! and also my dad.
acutally, it sounded like he was at a party--i definitely heard a lot of voices in the background. maybe he was playing my favorite game, drinking trivial pursuit. :)
(i plan on calling him later to find out just what the deal was.)
you knew i would see this, thus the title, tattling! your brother, what can i say!!!
does your brother consider you his own personal google? :-)
(back before google answered all our queries, I used to be the recipient of phone calls from various people who would regularly ask me for crossword puzzle answers and the like - I was always happy when I actually knew the answers)
mom--exactly!!!
pinky--i don't usually get those sorts of calls--the cutting reply i thought of while trying to fall back to sleep was something like, "haven't you ever heard of the internet??" i really think it was some sort of weird brother drunk-dial.
Hey wordnery's mom! You made the most awesome kid ever! Thank you!
aww, thank you, anonymous commenter!
by the way, for the curious: my brother won a bucket of beer and a tshirt at bar trivia thanks to that phone call!
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