PARENTAL COMMUNICATION

I enjoy phoning the CT home phone every now and again to see what happens. It usually goes straight to the answering machine because neither one of my parents can find it and then I phone each of their cellphones while I picture them asking each other where the hell the ringing is coming from.I then phone the home phone again expecting the dog to answer. It's a fun game and I get endless pleasure from it.

Dad: Sh*t. God. I FOUND IT LOVE! Hello?
Me: Dad!
Dad: Baglett! We were just talking about you.
Me: No you weren’t.
Dad: Yes we were, weren’t we love?
Mom: No, we weren’t.
Dad: She’s such a kidder. We’re coming to visit you in Jo’burg!
Me: Together?
Dad: Yes! Your mother is thrilled.
Mom: No I’m not.
Dad: She’s such a kidder. We’ve got a sixtieth birthday in Rivonia. And mom wanted to stay at your place.
Mom: No I didn’t.
Dad: She did. So any chance you could stay with that guy?
Mom: He means The Wine Merchant.
Me: Dad, his name is The Wine Merchant.
Dad: That’s what I said.
Mom: No you didn’t.
Dad: Well you stay with whatisface and then we’ll take over your room for the weekend. Mom is so excited.
Mom: No I’m not.
Dad: She’s been drinking.
Me: Great Dad, send me your dates tomorrow.

This morning I received two emails. I can only imagine my Dad has discovered the font option on his computer because the first was in Comic Sans size 18 and the second was in Script, blue, size 20 with the odd letter in red.

To: Baglett [baglett@gmail.com]
From: Dad

Hi Bag
We are booked.... so its lunch on Saturday party wif the 60 years olds at 7pm and we leave Sunday afternoon.
Love
Dad
PS is Frifay OK wif you?


You will notice that firstly there are no dates mentioned, nor times of arrival, let alone name of airport and the spelling is something special. While trying to decipher whether or not they were flying this weekend or sometime in 2010, I received the following email from my mother.

To: Baglett [baglett@gmail.com]
From: Mom

Hi darling

Our flights are booked and are as follows.

Saturday 17 October
Cpt – Jhb (07h30 – 09h30)
Sunday 18 October
Jhb – Cpt (15h35 – 17h45)

So we can either have lunch on the Saturday or brunch on the Sunday, before heading back to OR Tambo Airport.

XXX

Thank goodness for mom.