Je ne regrette rien, BUT...

This just happened:

[cell phone buzzes]

Me: "Hello?"

[tentative old lady voice]: "Garret?"

Me: "Oh, I think you have the wrong number."

[t.o.l.v]: "Oh, thank you. [excessive amount of shuffling noise on way to hanging up of phone, as if caller was in a box of off-brand kleenex]





What SHOULD have happened, but for my slow, dimwitted ways:


[cell phone buzzes]

Me: "Hello?"

[tentative old lady voice]: "Garret?"

Me: "Oh, I think you have the wrong number...oh, wait- unless you said, did you say McGarrett??"











Youth [is] a period of missed opportunities. - Cyril Connolly.


So is near-middle age, Cyril.

So is near-middle age.


FIN.