Everyone knows the story of the little girl who answered the phone and when she heard the caller was offering to clean the carpets she answered, "Mother says she is not in if you are cleaning carpets." In the same vein we have the true exchange below. [original, true: happened in a friend's family] CALLER: Hello LITTLE GIRL: Hello CALLER (hearing it is a little girl): Could I talk to your mother? LITTLE GIRL: Just a moment. (Goes and calls her mother). MOTHER: Hello CALLER: Hello, how are you? I am calling from the Music Conservatory. Would you be interested in music lessons for your kids? MOTHER: I don't have any kids. <click> Alex. (pruss@unixg.ubc.ca)
(From the "Rest" of RHF)