((((RING))))

***Pick Up***

"Hello?"
"Hi honey, this is Daddy,
Is Mommy near the phone?"
"No Daddy, She's upstairs in
the bedroom with Uncle Paul."

After a brief pause, Daddy says:

"But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul."
"Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in
the room with Mommy, right now."

***Brief Pause***

"Huh, Okay then, this is what I want you to do.
Put the phone on the table,
run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door,
and shout to Mommy that Daddy's car
just pulled into the driveway."
"Okay Daddy, just a minute."

A few minutes later the little girl
comes back to the phone.

"I did it Daddy."
"And what happened honey?" he asked
"Well, Mommy got all scared,
jumped out of bed with no clothes on
and ran around screaming.
Then she tripped over the rug,
hit her head on the dresser
and now she isn't moving at all!"
"Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul ?"
"He jumped out of the bed with
no clothes on aswell.
He was all scared and he jumped out
of the back window and into the swimming pool.
But I guess he didn't know that you took out
the water last week to clean it.
He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead."

***Long Pause***

***Longer Pause**

Then Daddy says, "Swimming pool?"
Is this 486-5731 ???

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