THE PHONE CALL
This one particular day Jennings Burch had a feeling that the number he had just dialed was wrong, but he let it ring just in case it was right. He waited a couple of rings until someone picked it up. “You got the wrong number!” a husky male voice snapped. Then the line went dead. Jennings was mystified so he redialed the same number. “I said you got the wrong number!” Once again the phone clicked in his ear. He wondered how this man could possibly know it was a wrong number. So he dialed a third time. “Hey, c’mon,” the man said, coldly. “Is this you again?” “Yeah, it’s me,” answered Jennings. “I was wondering how you know I had the wrong number before I even said anything.” The old man just said bluntly “You figured it out!” and hung up the phone. Jennings called him right back because he couldn’t believe this. Again the man hung up after…
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