SORRY, WRONG NUMBER — by Steve Nadis
I had a funny phone conversation yesterday with an astrophysicist who called me by mistake. He was trying to call someone named “Stephanie” and must have gotten my number after typing in “Ste.” Since I had him on the line, I asked him about a recent paper he had coauthored involving data from an experiment called MiniBooNE that was consistent with the existence of extra dimensions. He started to talk about that but then had to stop. It turns out he was spending the night in a sleep laboratory and they were about to hook him up to all kinds of apparatus to see if he had sleep apnea. Which meant he had only two minutes to contact his friend Stephanie and now he was out of luck. An ordinary wrong number and he still might have been able to reach her. Too bad he ran into me by mistake and could not shake me off in on time.
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16:50:36
I feel sorry for Stephanie. She’s only worth two minutes? You probably did her a favor. She may be better off without the call.
That’s one way to look at it, Roses. The other is that she was waiting for this guy to call and he could not because of a dialing error and my longwindedness and then the men in the white suits hooked him up to every diagnostic machine known to man (and woman). That’s another way of looking at it.
If U get a call from a prisoner on Death row, Snake… hang up!
As for the sleep-deprived stargazer, he’ll be up tomorrow.
I’m sure he’ll connect up w/ Ms Stephanie soon enough.
{We all have enough to feel guilty over.}
You’re probably right, MP. And their encounter may be more meaningful without all the sleep lab hardware.
and by the way ,,
dont do this , with your barber either,,
like ask him , that you heard that he creased
an ear or something ,, o.k. ……….=z=
Good advice, Z. I’ll be sure to do that. Or actually not do that.