Angry Esther

Last Saturday Lauren told me that she had two messages on her phone from a woman named "Esther." Here is what the message said:(imagine strong southern accent.)

"Hey Steve, this is Esther. Uh my watah heatah is broke an' I ain't gonna wait no week or two for Y'ALL to come to fix the hot watah."

I did what any nice person would do. I called Esther to tell her that she had misdialed and left a message by mistake on my daughter's cell phone. I thought Esther would really like to reach the person who could fix her watah heatah. Here is how the conversation went after Esther answered the phone.

"Don't you call me agin you !#@*! I'm a 53 year old woman in my kitchen and I don't need nobody callin' my house. I didn't call your daughter and I don't get no texting on my telephone."

I couldn't believe that this woman flew into such a rage over my phone call. I told her that there was no reason to get so upset. I was just trying to be helpful. Then guess what she said?

"If you call my house one more time (as if I had called multiple times) I'm gonna come over and wup yo *#$!" Then she hung up on me.

There was nothing left for me to do but just laugh. I was in shock over the horrible language she had yelled into my ear. My kids were loving the drama of it all. Before we could block her number from Lauren's phone, Esther left another message. She said:

"Hey Steve, this is Esther you need give me a call back 'cause some crazy woman keep callin' mah house and I don't know who this woman is but she bettah stop callin' mah house like this. I don't know why she keep callin' me and I don't have no text messagin' on mah telephone. So you needa be callin' me back!"

It makes me sad that this woman lives such an angry life. But I don't think I'll call her back again to tell her that. My ear still feels violated.