So, I was driving down the highway on my way home and my cellphone rings. I answered it, and there was this woman on the other line. She says "Hi, I am so and so from Charlie Company blah blah blah." We exchanged a few niceties, and then she says "well, there has been an incident. You may have heard about it in the news. A helicopter crashed and 10 people were on board. Some people in our company were affected. Have you heard from your husband?"
Nope, of course I haven't heard from him. He was supposed to call me this morning, but he never did. She quickly says "well, he is okay. We are just calling to let you know that there was this incident." I wanted to kill the woman, really I did. I was shaking and noticed that I was now driving at 30mph down the highway. We hung up, and about 30 minutes later I called her back and said "are you -sure- my husband is ok? How do you know this?" and she assured me.
The whole time he was in Iraq I never got a phone call like that. I thought I was going to die. I told her that she should start these phonecalls with the line "your husband is ok." That was so uncalled for.
Edited, Sat May 6 18:21:53 2006 by Katarine