The scriptures teach 'Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it'. So you heard in my earlier blog what I learned from the green trouser suit incident. Fast forward about five or six years and a certain granddaughter calls her grandparents' home and disguises her voice and puts a muslin cloth over the phone. Very politely she lets her grandfather know that she is from the City of Southampton and that she is calling to let them know that come Monday morning, he will not be able to move his car from the road to the garage. He can either leave the car in the garage or he will have to leave it up a ways on the street. She informs him that the city is coming to dig up the path outside his house and will engaged in this activity for about a week. If the car is left in the garage they will not be able to use it for a week. She apologises for the noise that the pneumatic drills will cause and then hangs up the phone. After a few minutes, she phones back and lets them know that she had tricked them and they had fallen for it.
Enthralled by her success, seven years later, she phoned her father declaring that she is calling from a television license detector van that is currently in their area. She relates that they are picking up that her parents do not have a current television license and they are watching the television. Her father confirms that they do have a television license so she asks for the number on the form. Her father races off to the bureau where her parents keep their paperwork. Meanwhile, great peals of laughter are escaping on the telephone line and when her father gets back to the phone, she is unable to continue with the facade and says a big thank-you to her father for getting the license number and then identifies herself. Gotcha Dad!
See what happens when you are buying a trouser suit for a little girl who is exactly the same size as your granddaughter?
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