A few facts of life

[cactuswatcher]

If you call someone and they answer before the phone starts to ring, both of you will be astonished. (Immediately, and I mean immediately, after I dialed my sister's number she picked up the phone to call me)

It's easier to give medicine to a dog that's a chowhound (poor Buffy), than one that's a picky eater.

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[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Actually I have picked up the phone when it wasn't ringing and there was someone on the other end. But it was some kind of electronic foul up. They weren't trying to dial my number.

When I was a kid we still had a phone with a 2-party line. My grandmother's house had a phone with a crank instead of a dial and multiple-party line. The phone would start ringing and everyone would be quiet for an instant until they were sure the number of long and short rings wasn't for them. I think her ring was two longs and a short.