Not One Surreal Conversation - But Two!
By Janey1966
@Janey1966 (24170)
Carlisle, England
August 19, 2012 7:31am CST
Can you tell they were with my parents? Who else?
Mum had gone to the loo halfway through our conversation on the telephone and I just sat there waiting for her.
After a couple of minutes I heard this beep, beep, beep at the other end and realised Mum was trying to dial my number.
I went, "Mum, MUM!"
"Urgh?" was the reply.
"What are you doing?"
"I was ringing you back, why?"
"Haha, you don't need to ring me back, you didn't cut me off when you went to the loo!"
"Oh, did I not?"
"NO, you didn't!"
"Oh, I thought I had!"
Hilarious.
Surreal conversation no.2..on another day.
When Dad came into the back room to ask Mum if she wanted to go the loo (he was about to have his bath) off she went and told Dad to talk to me for a bit on the phone.
"Hello, HELLO! I can't hear anything!" said my Dad.
"Try turning the phone round."
"HELLO! I can't hear anything. Stupid thing!"
Muffled sounds.
"HELLO!!" dead loud, deafening me.
"I can hear you now..I didn't know you had to talk into the numbers!"
Ah yes, he had the phone the wrong way round.
Not as bad as me picking up the Sky remote instead of the phone, although Mum actually tries DIALING on hers!
Have you had any surreal conversations lately? Great aren't they?
Mum had gone to the loo halfway through our conversation on the telephone and I just sat there waiting for her.
After a couple of minutes I heard this beep, beep, beep at the other end and realised Mum was trying to dial my number.
I went, "Mum, MUM!"
"Urgh?" was the reply.
"What are you doing?"
"I was ringing you back, why?"
"Haha, you don't need to ring me back, you didn't cut me off when you went to the loo!"
"Oh, did I not?"
"NO, you didn't!"
"Oh, I thought I had!"
Hilarious.
Surreal conversation no.2..on another day.
When Dad came into the back room to ask Mum if she wanted to go the loo (he was about to have his bath) off she went and told Dad to talk to me for a bit on the phone.
"Hello, HELLO! I can't hear anything!" said my Dad.
"Try turning the phone round."
"HELLO! I can't hear anything. Stupid thing!"
Muffled sounds.
"HELLO!!" dead loud, deafening me.
"I can hear you now..I didn't know you had to talk into the numbers!"
Ah yes, he had the phone the wrong way round.
Not as bad as me picking up the Sky remote instead of the phone, although Mum actually tries DIALING on hers!
Have you had any surreal conversations lately? Great aren't they?3 people like this
6 responses
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
19 Aug 12
I am looking forward to my parents reaching old age just so that I will have something to laugh about. But for now I will have to use yours instead!
Thanks for sharing the latest instalment of your family funnies. 
Thanks for sharing the latest instalment of your family funnies. @Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
19 Aug 12
Steady on, my Mum is only 66..and she's always been like that!
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
20 Aug 12
Sorry. 
Mines only 57! Though she looks a lot older. She definitely has the grandma look happening. I plan to still look about 40 when I am her age!
Mines only 57! Though she looks a lot older. She definitely has the grandma look happening. I plan to still look about 40 when I am her age! 
@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
20 Aug 12
What your parents have done really amuse me.I guess they often put on comedy sketch in your family.If someone present them on the stage,which will certainly bring down the house.Sorry!I don't get what it meant that "I don't know you had to talk into the numbers ".
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
22 Aug 12
Numbers (keys/buttons for dialing) at the bottom of the phone, screen at the top. Dad thought he had to speak into the screen (dunno why) and then he realised, "No, actually, I have to speak to the numbers!"
@GardenGerty (169477)
• United States
20 Aug 12
My situation was not a conversation. It was still rather surreal to me. I go to work before 6 am. I use a phone system clock in, and get report from someone that watches a monitor all night. I go to the location, am listening to person, and dial clock in number. . . it rings and rings and rings and does not sound quite right. Hang up start over it goes through fine enter employee pin, etc
I get home in the afternoon and hubby says "You had a call from A-----M------ on caller ID while you were at work, and no one talked. Well the number was the house where I clock in, but no one there has my number, I deliberately do not post it.
I pondered on it a few days, asked people who called me and how they got my number. I realized two days later, in the middle of the night, that I had dialed my home phone---that was why the clock in would not dial through. I felt pretty dumb about that.
@GardenGerty (169477)
• United States
22 Aug 12
With all the phone numbers I have memorized and all the button punching to clock in, I find myself thinking random phone numbers as I approach certain locations. It is hard to imagine, unless you are in the situation as well. I often wonder why I am doing that. I was going into a house I have to enter before 6 a.m. this morning. I do not clock in there, or use the phone, but as I approach the door a number runs through my mind, but it is my son's number, and he is already at work.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
22 Aug 12
Haha! That's exactly the type of thing my Mum would do. You're so alike you could be twins!
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@mr_pearl (5018)
• India
20 Aug 12
LOL... These are the funniest ones ever... And it happens with old people... The incident with Mom was more than hilllarious, especially she telling you that she was trying to call you... So innocent and lively... Amazing!!!
I have not had such things in all my life... :-)
@BarBaraPrz (51819)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Aug 12
Life is just a cher full of bowlies, isn't it?
