Up Yours Kayla

We got two collect phonecalls from some broad named Kayla at Suffolk County Corrections at 9:00am this morning. No one, I repeat NO ONE, who knows us knows not to call before noon on a Sunday unless it is some sort of emergency.

So you can imagine our reaction when we get his call not once, but twice. Fortunately I'm betting she gets two shots at a phone call then she has to turn the phone over to the next prisoner in line. I also bet we'll get two more such calls next Sunday morning.

A small part of me thinks I ought to have accepted the call and told her she had the wrong number, afterall, shit happens and we all make mistakes and she is in prison paying her debt to society for whatever thing she did and maybe she's trying to call her mom and keeps miss dialing it and maybe someone should do something nice and at least tell her she's got the wrong number. It may also prevent repeat awakenings at 9am on Sunday mornings.

But another part of me thinks fuck it, it's 9 in the fucking morning and most reasonable people are asleep, hungover or at church (we fell into the asleep category) and seeing as she was calling from prison most of the folks she probably knows would appreciate a 9am wake up call on a Sunday morning even less then we do. Who knows what the hell she's in prison for and if she finds out she dialed a working phone number of someone nice enough to accept a collect call to tell her she dialed the wrong number she may think I'm her new best friend and start calling every week just to chat or worse yet, start asking for favors.

And the funny part is I drive by the only women's prison in the state on my way to work every day... I don't know what they are calling the place these days but if she isn't in one of the smaller local holding jails awaiting trial then that's where she was calling from so now I am going to think of this Kayla chick everytime I drive by and wonder who she is and what she did.

Thanks for waking us up Kayla. Thanks a lot.

Update: She called again in the afternoon. I hung up.