Phone messages we can't make out

While this letter contains no world-shaking political commentary, it does contain what I think might be a reminder that some of us could take to heart.

This morning when I returned home from my daily walk, my answering machine had a message from a woman.

She said that she saw that I have a house for rent. She wanted to know the price together with the number of rooms it has.

Then she left her phone number in a completely garbled manner.

I listened to it at least a dozen times and finally wrote down the number I thought she had said and tried calling it together with another possible variation.

Unfortunately, I never did decipher the proper number to inform the poor woman that she had called a super colossal wrong number and that my house is definitely not for rent.

So somewhere there is a rental house together with woman interested in renting it.

But because she practically swallowed her phone number when she gave it, they may never connect with one another.

Betty Grenda

Mount Prospect