guest posted once before, so this is all still pretty new to me. Hope you don't mind if I suck a little bit. I was having a hard time thinking of what to what to write, until I remembered this crazy thing that happened last fall...
So it was around eight o'clock one morning, and I was in the middle of a really weird dream. All the sudden I realized that the annoying noise I was hearing wasn't something in my dream; it was my phone ringing. The caller ID said "Unknown," but I answered it anyway, because I always die of curiosity if I don't figure out who it was. Here is the bizarre conversation that occurred (keep in mind, I'm mostly asleep):
Me: Hello?
[Unidentified Chinese-Sounding Lady]: Dis Bruke?
Me: Yes...
UC-SL: You orduh fried rice and cold coffee. You come get now.
Me: Uh, I didn't order Chinese food.
UC-SL: You orduh! You like cold coffee.
Me: ...uh...
UC-SL: My boss very mad. You come now.
Me [realizing that she said my name, so it must be someone I know]: Who is this?
UC-SL: Dis Yoko. You come get food.
Me: I didn't order any food. It's only eight in the morning.
Yoko: Yes you did! My boss mad. You come now.
Me: [silent, having realized that this lady is not listening to me.]
Yoko: Young lady!!
Me: [still silent.]
Yoko: Young lady!! Young lady! You talk now!
Me: [still silent.]
Yoko: [hangs up]
I laid there in bed after she hung up, and all I could think was, did this really just happen? It was the most bizarre thing ever. I started to wonder if I dreamed it up as part of the really-weird dream I had been woken out of, so I checked my call log... nope, it really did happen.
So I asked all my family members if they had orchestrated it somehow, and the answer was no on all counts. My sister said that maybe it was my sister-in-law, soMichael called her... Nope, it wasn't her, but she said that she thought it might've been one of our mutual friends. She said that she remembered that this friend used to do a Chinese voice, so it was probably her. We thought that would explain why the call was so early, too, since this friend lives in Hawaii (not realizing that it's three hours earlier in Hawaii). So Michael called the girl, and when she didn't answer, he left a message in a Canadian accent that was something to the effect of: "Yeah, uh, this is Doug from the FlapJack House... um, you ordered some flapjacks, and they're sorta getting cold and stuff. My boss, he's gettin' real mad, so, like, couldja come pick'um up pretty soon? Yeah, uh... come getcher pancakes, eh?"
So we left it at that, thinking that we were so clever for getting back at our friend in such a creative way, but in the back of my mind I was a little worried, and really hoping that it actually was her, otherwise that would have been a bizarre message for her to get! Later that evening, I was hanging out with some more of my girl friends who are also friends with this girl, and I told them all the story, and they all agreed that it was for sure her doing. So then I was all happy that we had gotten her back, and there were no doubts in my mind that it was her.
However, when I got home that night, I checked my MySpace before I headed to bed, and I had a comment from my cousin's wife that said, "You order Chinese food?" So I wrote back and said, "Oh my gosh, was that you?" She said that it wasn't her, but that she knew who it was. I begged her to tell me, because I had been wondering why I didn't recognize the voice, so she told me that it was a friend of hers. They both live in Indiana, in which the time is three hours later than in Oregon, where we live.
I wrote a message to my friend explaining the whole thing and apologizing and telling her I hoped it didn't freak her out. She said she had been wondering who it was, and that she was freaked until she realized that it must have been someone who knew her. It could have turned out badly, but it all turned out okay, and we had a good laugh about it.
And now you get to laugh about it.
So it was around eight o'clock one morning, and I was in the middle of a really weird dream. All the sudden I realized that the annoying noise I was hearing wasn't something in my dream; it was my phone ringing. The caller ID said "Unknown," but I answered it anyway, because I always die of curiosity if I don't figure out who it was. Here is the bizarre conversation that occurred (keep in mind, I'm mostly asleep):
Me: Hello?
[Unidentified Chinese-Sounding Lady]: Dis Bruke?
Me: Yes...
UC-SL: You orduh fried rice and cold coffee. You come get now.
Me: Uh, I didn't order Chinese food.
UC-SL: You orduh! You like cold coffee.
Me: ...uh...
UC-SL: My boss very mad. You come now.
Me [realizing that she said my name, so it must be someone I know]: Who is this?
UC-SL: Dis Yoko. You come get food.
Me: I didn't order any food. It's only eight in the morning.
Yoko: Yes you did! My boss mad. You come now.
Me: [silent, having realized that this lady is not listening to me.]
Yoko: Young lady!!
Me: [still silent.]
Yoko: Young lady!! Young lady! You talk now!
Me: [still silent.]
Yoko: [hangs up]
I laid there in bed after she hung up, and all I could think was, did this really just happen? It was the most bizarre thing ever. I started to wonder if I dreamed it up as part of the really-weird dream I had been woken out of, so I checked my call log... nope, it really did happen.
So I asked all my family members if they had orchestrated it somehow, and the answer was no on all counts. My sister said that maybe it was my sister-in-law, so
So we left it at that, thinking that we were so clever for getting back at our friend in such a creative way, but in the back of my mind I was a little worried, and really hoping that it actually was her, otherwise that would have been a bizarre message for her to get! Later that evening, I was hanging out with some more of my girl friends who are also friends with this girl, and I told them all the story, and they all agreed that it was for sure her doing. So then I was all happy that we had gotten her back, and there were no doubts in my mind that it was her.
However, when I got home that night, I checked my MySpace before I headed to bed, and I had a comment from my cousin's wife that said, "You order Chinese food?" So I wrote back and said, "Oh my gosh, was that you?" She said that it wasn't her, but that she knew who it was. I begged her to tell me, because I had been wondering why I didn't recognize the voice, so she told me that it was a friend of hers. They both live in Indiana, in which the time is three hours later than in Oregon, where we live.
I wrote a message to my friend explaining the whole thing and apologizing and telling her I hoped it didn't freak her out. She said she had been wondering who it was, and that she was freaked until she realized that it must have been someone who knew her. It could have turned out badly, but it all turned out okay, and we had a good laugh about it.
And now you get to laugh about it.
3 comments:
That's weird. I always thought Yoko was a Japanese name.
And I am laughing about it :o)
Ooh, that and the fact that my word verification on this comment almost spells "ramen."
I love it when the word verification spells a word, or at least looks like a word. Ramen is a great word.
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