[text to Greta]; backdated to the 10th

[singthesong]

Greta! Hello! I got a phone!

Comments

1/2

[andhiswife]

[WHAT IS HAPPEN. Please hold for a minute or two of baffled fumbling.]

W

2/2

[andhiswife]

Who?

1/2

[singthesong]

It's the Balladeer!

2/2

[singthesong]

Does it not say my name on your phone? Mine says yours.

[Which really kinda raises the question of who gave him this number. Someone must have.]

1/4

[andhiswife]

I see. Good egg

2/4

[andhiswife]

Good egg

3/4

[andhiswife]

Goodness?

4/4

[andhiswife]

It changed my words

[singthesong]

It did?

By itself?

[andhiswife]

Ted!

Yes.

[singthesong]

That's weird. Oh there's words on the top was it those?

[andhiswife]

Yes it was! TGIF if confusing. Again! See?

[Because obviously he can see what's happening on her phone.]

[singthesong]

I think it's trying to help, but it's not very good at it. It guessed some of the things I meant to say!

1/2

[andhiswife]

What if I drop it on purpose

2/2

[andhiswife]

I would not really!

1/2

[singthesong]

I know!

2/2

[singthesong]

Do you think it would break? It seems thin. They should make them tougher.

[andhiswife]

I bet it would. It feels like glass.

[singthesong]

Looks like it should be expensive. But everybody outside had one.

[singthesong]

I'm going to press the button next to the keyboard and see what it does.

[andhiswife]

Be careful.

[singthesong]

[A PICTURE OF A WALL]

[singthesong]

GRETA IT HAS A CAMERA IN IT

[andhiswife]

What? How if it a camera?

[singthesong]

I don't know the ones I've seen were a lot bigger than this. But so were the phones.

It's the one like a little box with a circle in it. On the left.

[andhiswife]

[There is a pause long enough for Greta to find the camera icon, press it, and be deeply disturbed by the resulting blackness that fills her screen. It doesn't occur to her that having her phone lying on a pillow would block the lens; it just looks as if her viewscreen has opened into an abyss. No, thank you. We'll have no more of that.]

I think mine doesn't work.

[singthesong]

Weird. Point it at something?

[andhiswife]

What if I broke it?

[singthesong]

Just don't drop it.

[andhiswife]

I won't. I have it sitting on a cushion safely.

[She is being so good about this. No phone breakage on HER watch.]

[singthesong]

Oh! I bet it's trying to take a picture of the cushion.

[andhiswife]

Why would it do that?

[singthesong]

It's facing down! The camera lens is on the other side.