John of The Book Mine Set reviewed A Telephone Call a couple of weeks ago and made me curious.  He said, “A Telephone Call is an interesting, funny, sad and annoying story all at once.”

It is about a young woman waiting for her boyfriend to call her.  He told her he would call her at 5:00PM but it is now past 7:00 PM.  The poor girl is going crazy waiting for him to call.

“Please, God, let him telephone me now. Dear God, let him call me now. I won’t ask anything else of You, truly I won’t. It isn’t very much to ask.”

She had called him at work earlier today and he called her, “darling” twice so he must care about her.  Right?  She’s wonders if he has been in an accident. 

“I never picture him run over. I never see him lying still and long and dead. I wish he were dead. That’s a terrible wish. That’s a lovely wish.”

She ties to make different deals with God.  She will count to 500 in fives. God is to let him call then.

“Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twentyfive, thirty, thirty-five.…”
The story is a bit dated as she uses words like “gay”.  I haven’t heard that word since The Flinstones.  LOL!  However, I think it stand true today.  Probably this minute there is a girl willing her cell phone to ring or to at least receive a text message.

This is a funny story in parts.  I could sympathize with the girt to a point but I kept thinking as I was reading it, “get a life, don’t base your entire future on a man.”  She soon started to grate on my nerves.  As John said, “annoying”.  
That said, I am interested in reading other Dorothy Parker stories.  This was my first.  You can read the story here.
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