Minky & Me

When I was small, I astounded my parents by making a telephone to a friend who lived a half an hour away. Some kind operator assisted me in placing the call, which is amazing if you think of it. As a three year old, I am sure I didn’t give her much information to go on. My parents, becoming suspicious when the babbling they heard in the next room seemed more like conversation, picked up the phone and were shocked to hear Janie Wilson and I gabbing.

I had surely the same feeling of surprise two nights ago when I picked up the phone, said hello and heard, in addition to the caller’s hello, a young-ish voice say, “hi.” It took me a minute to realize that Coco had picked up the phone upstairs. She’s never done that before.

As I entered the den to ask her to hang up, she shouted at me, and into the phone, “someone’s callin’ to you!”