Zoaring With Glinda

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Are you a good witch...or a bad witch?

I'd like to think that I am a good witch, who occasionally likes to orchestrate...a practical joke ...now and then...for comedic relief...for sure!
These past few days, there's been a renewed effort to get the flowers and new trees planted and prep the rest of the grounds so that everything is 'looking good.' At about 11:30, the very pleasant Meals on Wheels {MOW} delivery volunteer dropped off the day's meal. I approached the refrigerator to keep the milk, juice, and dessert cold, and noticed that a fresh banana was 'treat de jour.'
At this point I must share that I volunteer at this Meals on Wheels enterprise, and have witnessed firsthand the ridiculous complaints and/or comments that people make about the food or service. [Both of which are excellent!!] And a practical joke suddenly seemed quite ap'peal'ing... [haha]
Oh right, back to the banana...
I dialed the MOW number, and when good buddie 'Bessie" answered the phone, I tried to disguise my voice and stated: "I'd like to speak to the person who thinks that a banana is a dessert!!"
There was a moment of silence.
And then she very uncharacteristically said..."One moment please!"
I couldn't believe it! She hadn't recognized my improvised accent!
Now, I couldn't wait to hear exactly where she had deflected the complaint to...
I recognized immediately that it was 'Kat' who was going to explain to me the dietary...nutrition...balanced...'blah, blah, blah info' that I already knew.
So I stopped her and told her it was me playing a joke on Bessie. As that was relayed to... 'She whose blood pressure was definitely on the rise', in the background I could hear,
"What?
Who is that? OMG! I can't believe it! Ya know...some people actually do complain about fruit as a dessert!"
Well, I knew that. Which is exactly why I instigated my little plan to incite....laughter.
Well, it worked. Wahoo! And so the names of the participants have been changed to protect the innocent [victims!!}.

It kind of reminded me of the time I called my elementary school's library assistant and posed as a Reader's Digest salesperson who wanted to sell her a subscription for the 'LARGE PRINT' version for the school to help kids who were having trouble reading.


Again, upon disclosure, some very, very, healthy laughter!

5 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]



<< Home