Phone Call

Parents called last night around 10:15, worried. They had gotten a message on their answering machine that sounded creepy, and wanted me to listen to it. (They also thought at first that something bad had happened to me, and were greatly relieved when I picked up the phone).

The message was a lot of heavy breathing, some incoherent words, and screaming. The caller ID was blocked out.

I told my parents that it was definitely a prank. Since it’s around the time for many fraternity initiations, it could even be some drunken frat boy having some fun. I told them to record the time and the date and to keep the message itself. If the prank call happens again, they should contact the police and have the phone company trace these harassing calls.

And to the idiot who wasted 15 minutes of me and my parents’ lives, may you get what you deserve.