Humorous Wedding Speech: An Inspector Calls
I’d like to share with you one of the most interesting telephone calls that I’ve ever received.
The phone rang, and I said hello.
“Hi, are you sitting down?”
I told that her that I was just leaving to have lunch with my husband.
“Well, first let me say that everyone is alright”
- Here’s a little 411 for those of you who haven’t had this experience, anytime someone calls you and begins the conversation with “Are you sitting down?” soon to be followed by “Well, first let me say that everyone is alright”, just realize that what is to follow just can’t be good news. These phrases in literature are known as “foreshadowing”.
It was obvious that she was on her cell phone too, and was somewhat struggling. She said wait a minute while …show more content…
“It’s in the shop finally; it took them 2 days before they could move it”
2 days to move it from where? “Well, it was in a building” she replied.
- Of all the millions of things I thought she might say about her car troubles, that “it was in a building” was not on the list.
“Well” she went on “I had Holly (my 15 year old niece) and her friend, they were sitting in the back together talking and giggling a lot. I was trying to deliver some groceries to (my 19 year old nephew) Travis who was standing just to the side of the car, waiting for me to get out and open the trunk for him”.
“I pulled up under a carport and I guess I forgot to put it in park. When I got out, I realized that the car was still moving and Holly and her friend were still inside, in the back seat. I jumped back in and tried to put my foot on the brake, but it must have been the accelerator because the car just kept going forward. It was so quick! I went over the little concrete block at the end of the parking space, right through a fence, across a small patio, through a sliding glass door and into a lady’s kitchen.” “Thank God, that lady and her son were out taking a …show more content…
We’ve all seen these types of accidents on the news from time to time; a car gets driven into someone’s living room and ends with the drunken guy fleeing the seen.
She said “Oh it was so embarrassing” “There was 2 fire trucks, an ambulance, several police, everyone from the apartment building and oh yes the owner of the building and his board of directors happened to be meeting there that afternoon.”
My mother went on to say that it must have been slow night in the news because 2 television stations sent reporters with
The phone rang, and I said hello.
“Hi, are you sitting down?”
I told that her that I was just leaving to have lunch with my husband.
“Well, first let me say that everyone is alright”
- Here’s a little 411 for those of you who haven’t had this experience, anytime someone calls you and begins the conversation with “Are you sitting down?” soon to be followed by “Well, first let me say that everyone is alright”, just realize that what is to follow just can’t be good news. These phrases in literature are known as “foreshadowing”.
It was obvious that she was on her cell phone too, and was somewhat struggling. She said wait a minute while …show more content…
“It’s in the shop finally; it took them 2 days before they could move it”
2 days to move it from where? “Well, it was in a building” she replied.
- Of all the millions of things I thought she might say about her car troubles, that “it was in a building” was not on the list.
“Well” she went on “I had Holly (my 15 year old niece) and her friend, they were sitting in the back together talking and giggling a lot. I was trying to deliver some groceries to (my 19 year old nephew) Travis who was standing just to the side of the car, waiting for me to get out and open the trunk for him”.
“I pulled up under a carport and I guess I forgot to put it in park. When I got out, I realized that the car was still moving and Holly and her friend were still inside, in the back seat. I jumped back in and tried to put my foot on the brake, but it must have been the accelerator because the car just kept going forward. It was so quick! I went over the little concrete block at the end of the parking space, right through a fence, across a small patio, through a sliding glass door and into a lady’s kitchen.” “Thank God, that lady and her son were out taking a …show more content…
We’ve all seen these types of accidents on the news from time to time; a car gets driven into someone’s living room and ends with the drunken guy fleeing the seen.
She said “Oh it was so embarrassing” “There was 2 fire trucks, an ambulance, several police, everyone from the apartment building and oh yes the owner of the building and his board of directors happened to be meeting there that afternoon.”
My mother went on to say that it must have been slow night in the news because 2 television stations sent reporters with