Wednesday, August 29, 2007

You’re Uncle Harold’s email address is: Harold.

True story, this is what I heard out my window last night:

Car rolls up and double-parks on my one-way street.
Buzzer for the intercom to the apartment across the street.
Lady who is always yelling at her kids, yells out the window, not using the intercom: “Sal, what’s up?”
Sal, an old Italian man: “What’s going on with your dad’s phone? I think it's off the hook again.”
Lady, talking to dad inside apartment: “Dad, look, your phone is off the hook again.”
Lady, yelling outside Sal: “You’re right, it was off the hook.”
Sal: “Ok, tell your dad I am going to call him when I get home.”
Sal gets in car pulls away.

I am not sure this is what Alexander Graham Bell had in mind when he invented the phone. Man, do I love living in the North End.

2 comments:

Neponset River Bridge Dig said...

Hey, I have a photo of this same guy sitting there in that same spot. He's an icon in the North End. I will try to dig that up and post it on my blog.

Debbie K said...

I totally googled his pic. I think I typed in "North End old man." He must be a North End fixture if he is on google and you have this photo too.