Dangling Conversation

Dangling Conversation

>>

>> At dawn the telephone rings.

>>

>> "Hello, Master Carlos? This is Arnaldo, your country home caretaker"

>>

>> "Ah yes, Mr. Arnaldo. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?"

>>

>> "Um, I am just calling to advise you, sir, that your parrot died"

>>

>> "My parrot? Dead? The one that won the competition?"

>>

>> "That's the one."

>>

>> "######! That's such a pity. I spent a small fortune on that bird. Oh

>> well...what did he die from?"

>>

>> "From eating rotten meat."

>>

>> "Rotten meat? Who gave him meat?"

>>

>> "Nobody. He ate the meat of one of the dead horses."

>>

>> "Dead horse? What dead horse, Mr. Arnaldo?"

>>

>> "Remember those purebred horses you had, sir.? They died from all that

>> work pulling the water cart."

>>

>> "Are you insane? What water cart?"

>>

>> "The one we used to put out the fire."

>>

>> "Good Lord! Wh! at fire are you talking about, man?"

>>

>> "The one at your house. A candle fell over and the curtain caught

>> on fire."

>>

>> "WHAT? That's crazy! There's electricity at the house! What was the

>> candle for?"

>>

>> "For the funeral."

>>

>> "WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL?"

>>

>> "Your wife's."

>>

>> "MY WIFE'S?"

>>

>> "Yes, sir. She showed up one night out of the blue and I thought she was

>> a thief, so I hit her with your new Tiger Woods Nike Driver."

>>

>> (Silence..........)

>>

>> "Arnaldo... I swear to God, if you broke that driver you are so

>> fired!"