Cindy's Message

Another message!

Hi Squoze! This is Cindy.
The outside is cold and windy.
I just wanted to tell you a story;
I will share it later in all its glory.

Dad's Message

I had this message waiting for me when I got home tonight:

Hi! I'm returning your call.
Hope you're having a ball,
But taxes are no fun at all.
Love, Dad

Dad's Message

I got another rhyming message last night:

Missed you;
I'm blue.
So sad,
Your Dad.

Bob's Message

Sunday Bob called to leave me a rhyming message. This is it:

To Rosie, my sister, Bob is my name,
A Christmas ago we got you a game.

The game was missing some important elements;
The cards with the characters have a lot of relevance.

For a game where a story must be told
Without any characters soon gets old.

Deck "C" was gone, Deck "B" had been doubled;
The packing job had clearly been bungled.

A new deck they promise your way to send
When your address they get to make their amends.

Your address we have, unless you've moved between,
We'll tell them to mail it to apartment 14.*

Area code, prefix, three numbers then one,**
Get back to us soon, or the deed will be done.

Some messages rhyme, but no one knows why.
See you later, love you, and now it's good-bye.

This message, for going above and beyond, was awarded 100 points.

*Line changed slightly.
**Not the original line. Bob suggested this change for the blog.

Leave a Message

For those of you who haven't heard my answering-machine greeting, composed by Russell, it says this:

Hi! You've reached [my apartment]. You get one point if you leave a message, five points if you leave your name and number, and fifty points if your message rhymes. Thank you!

I confess that in the two-and-a-half years that I've had this greeting, I have not kept accurate scores—although I did keep all the rhyming messages. However, when I got back from Christmas break this year, I was saddened to find that somehow all the messages on my machine had been erased. This makes scoring complicated.

So, I've decided to start the scoring over with the new year. I'll keep the points listed on my blog, and I'll post any rhyming messages for everyone else to enjoy with me. I'll give a special Christmas present to the winner at the end of the year. Thanks for calling!