Janis: I'm sorry your sciatica is acting up -- listen, Mom, I'm on the house phone, I'd better hang up!
BOOOOM.
Arlo: You're going to get struck by lightning!
I keep an old non-wireless phone for when the power goes out. I can plug into the outside box and if the problem is on the phone company’s side, I call them and say " Fix it !"
Oh, just as a point of fact, I did get struck by lightening when as a kid I was talking to my mother on the phone (only land lines were available in those ancient days) in Florida during summer vacation and lightening struck somewhere in the neighbor hood. I remember screaming and throwing the receiver as far as the cord would go. Needless to say my mother at work (25 miles away) was screaming back on the phone to find out what had happened. So, yes, you can get a very painful shock on a land line during a thunderstorm. But not on a wireless. Naughty Janis.
doublepaw over 13 years ago
How about singing a chorus of “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie”?
NE1956 over 13 years ago
It would be an electrifying experience.
ron over 13 years ago
It looks like she’s using a wireless handset so there’s no danger at all.
dopeydan over 13 years ago
Go fly a kite. Har har de har dd
Ermine Notyours over 13 years ago
Does anyone not have a non-wireless phone, even for their house phone? That was a problem the last time there was a power outtage around here.
GramEGoose over 13 years ago
I keep an old non-wireless phone for when the power goes out. I can plug into the outside box and if the problem is on the phone company’s side, I call them and say " Fix it !"
GramEGoose over 13 years ago
Oh, just as a point of fact, I did get struck by lightening when as a kid I was talking to my mother on the phone (only land lines were available in those ancient days) in Florida during summer vacation and lightening struck somewhere in the neighbor hood. I remember screaming and throwing the receiver as far as the cord would go. Needless to say my mother at work (25 miles away) was screaming back on the phone to find out what had happened. So, yes, you can get a very painful shock on a land line during a thunderstorm. But not on a wireless. Naughty Janis.
angel6897 over 13 years ago
well we’re happy you survived tsk Janis for mocking your childhood so
MattMan_1_00 3 months ago
Her mom doesn’t know the difference in phone numbers?