One of THOSE calls . . .

[pegkerr]

This is one of those calls you make to the spouse at work which starts, "I have a question. And you'd better know the answer," said in a faux-calm but really very threatening tone of voice.

Rob: (Warily) "Oh, yeah? Um, what is it?"

Me: (barely moving my lips) "Where is Delia's Girl Scout cookies order form?"

Rob: (obviously thinking very hard) "Well, I know where it was. Um, on the window seat."

Me: (ominously) "It is not there now."

Rob: "Then it got moved to that pile of papers on the table by the door."

Me: (A pause. A very long pause.) "It is Not. There. Now." The phone just about cracks from the ice in my voice.

Rob: (Obviously sweating) "Um. Maybe I brought it to work?"

Me: (the temperature of my voice has dropped to absolute zero) "You had better find it. Now. Delia is absolutely hysterical."

A pause and frantic scuffling. "Um, here! I have one of the two in my hand. I brought them to work to call in the order to the troop. The other one is probably in my locker."

Me: (She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed-Black-Leather-Clad-Bitch-Voice-of-Doom) "Then I suggest you check. And I furthermore suggest that in the future you refrain from removing that list from the house without informing your daughter first."

It's a good thing that Delia has gone to bed before Rob has gotten home from work. Otherwise she might have killed him. She's a double black stripe, you know.

I'm a mere red belt, but I still might.

Comments

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed-Black-Leather-Clad-Bitch-Voice-of-Doom

Can I borrow that sometime?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Sure.

[msagara.livejournal.com]

I know this wasn't meant to be funny. But having had conversations of exactly that nature before (involving my son's lunch on a school trip, which my husband dropped off in the class before they left without, apparently, telling my son he had done this), it's funny. Well, funnier when it's a lot more in the past.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Can I still order now? I'd like a case of thin mints BTW vonkrag at mac dot com

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

We can do that! Reorders are due this Saturday the 8th. A whole case? Meaning a case containing twelve boxes? Or do you simply mean you'd like a single box of Thin Mints?

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Yeppers, 12 of lil beauties. All mine, my precious cookies... mine, mine, mine. :)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Okay, we'll put you down for twelve boxes. Thanks for your order!

[sternel.livejournal.com]

She's a double black stripe, you know.

Oh, I just spit water all over the keyboard.

[rachet.livejournal.com]

I had to laugh when I read this. It was too familiar.

Suggestion...

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

Having dealt with too many of these situations in the past, I make copies of key lists such as that and keep them where *I* always know where they are. I still prefer to work from the original, but I have insurance.

~A

Re: Suggestion...

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

You'd think after over twenty years of marriage to this man, who has the memory of a gnat I would learn! But noooooooooo....

Fortunately, the list has been found.