my mom -- as you may have suspected -- is a bit of a character. and since i am the lucky child, i am privy to this over the phone more often than my siblings. (and by lucky i mean the one with a job she feels she can interrupt because she doesn't understand what i do anyways -- which you know, sometimes i don't either).
when she calls she doesn't say hello. she just jumps directly into conversation. sometimes she just wants you to spell things, sometimes she needs you to look stuff up for her, and sometimes she just calls to say hi. oh and she calls at all times of the day or night, 9am, 9pm, 11am, 11pm, it doesn't matter. she once called me at 10:30am to spell the word "poop" - no joke.
i actually strangely love her calls. sure she drives me crazy half the time, but the calls are rather endearing. the only thing that drives me absolutely mad is the fact that she doesn't say goodbye. when she's done with you she sort of just hangs up, and you're left going "so um yah...hello? are you there?"
*sigh*
