Thursday, July 23, 2009

Meet me at the Old Triangle!

I sometimes get very strange messages on my cell phone, which are evidently intended for someone else (wrong number, I suppose?). They usually have accents, and I've heard just about everything from the foreign-sounding "Alo? Alo?" to repeated messages from a man working at a delivery company begging me to give him directions to the place he's delivering to.

Today I turned on my cell phone to find six new messages, none of which were from anybody I knew. The first three or so seemed to be in a loud background with occasional children screaming, and a Russian-accented woman said something like, "Thees miessage is deerected to Natasha ----... Plees respondt immediately efter hearingk thees message...sahmone may be falsely usingk your identity..."

Then came an enthusiastic message from a girl's voice, saying, "Meet me at the Old Triangle!...it's where everyone's going...Yes, the Old Triangle, just one tree from the boat...I love you...see you there!"

Then came a few more Natasha calls, this time with a male Russian voice. I was repeating what I heard to Rebecca, accent and all, as we walked to the forest to meet Sachi for lunch. Just as I was repeating something about "your seeblingk Natanya" Rebecca said to Sachi, "Philip is listening to his phone messages."

Sachi responded, "Yes, I can tell. And he's talking to them too!"

Da, wis Rahssian eccent and all.

-Pheelp

1 comment:

Philip said...

Just so you know, "Pheelp" is how my Russian driver's ed teachers pronounced my name.