A Road Less Travelled

Yesterday I was IM-ing Raquel and we had a truly pathetic moment. In fact there were several pathetic moments. And of course I feel the need to post about how pathetic we are. It was really funny.

So yesterday afternoon I log on to Gmail to check my email and notice Raquel is online too. So I say Hey and she says Hi and soon we are chatting and having a lovely conversation.  After a few minutes my hands start getting tired so I suggest a truly brilliant idea. We have a fixed rate on our long-distance so it would be no big expense for me to call Raquel and we could have our giggly conversation  closer to face-to-face. There is a hitch. I don’t know Raquel’s sister’s phone number. And Raquel doesn’t either. She suggests I call the Lansberrys, but I was pretty sure they would both be resting and I didn’t want to disturb them. So I get the proper spelling of her sister’s last name after mangling it horribly and I go to an online phone book and try to find them. I find some people who rather inconsiderately share their last name, but none with the proper Bruce or Donna in front of it. I get the address from a D that could be theirs and ask Raquel if that was her sister’s address. She doesn’t know. And the people in Ohio who would know are resting.

It was about this point that we started commenting on how pathetic we are. Raquel found their phone book, but couldn’t find any listing either. She finally mentions her sister’s home phone is a cell phone. Well now, that changes everything. I hadn’t mentioned the idea that she could just call me and I could then get her number off the caller ID because I didn’t want know how her sister’s long distance was set up, but since it’s a cell phone. That’s different. So we figure out that it would be okay for her to call me and she does after I give her our phone number and we have a lovely chat about I’m not sure what at this point. We hang up so she can go to evening worship and so Seth can call Dad. And today Raquel popped up on IM and said that weekend and nights were free. So now I can call her at night and we could chat. Except that when I remembered to check the caller ID this morning all it said was Unknown Number. So I still don’t know her sister’s phone number.