To change your outgoing message, press five. They call up Joe Business after he’s gone home for the day, and his answering machine says, “If this is an emergency, you can reach me at my cell number,” and they punch in his password and listen to the menu. If not, well, they take their time and they try everything else. If it’s a voicemail computer system, they try to guess the passwords. If it’s a business, they write the name of the business. They dial every one of these toll-free numbers, and write down who answers. The girls already have a notebook half filled. In a single day they can fill pages and pages of the notebook up with numbers, and each one gets a note. They’re working on a book called The Hidden Guide to Telephones. They don’t call up strange answering machines from payphones and try to guess their passwords.Īnn and Jackie leave each other secret messages. If this isn’t a date, she has to act like she never thought it was. ![]() “Let’s find some payphones instead,” Jackie says. “I’m not getting on that roller coaster again,” she says. And she’s not wrapped around anyone’s finger. Jackie doesn’t know what to do on a date, anyway. Well, if it isn’t a date, it isn’t a date. “I thought you said we could do anything I wanted,” Ann says, and there’s a taunt in her voice that makes Jackie sick, like Ann knows that Jackie will do whatever she wants, like she has Jackie wrapped around her finger. “Maybe we’ll die this time,” Ann says again. “Maybe we’ll die this time.” Jackie shakes her head. “Can we?” Ann says, but Jackie is so sore. “It’s only four dollars if you go again,” he says. The metal is cold in her hand and Jackie glares at the bored attendant who tries to help them. Jackie’s stomach is somewhere behind them.Ĭlick click click, they pull into the little room where they started. Then they go up, and they come back down. It takes the corners so fast that they slam into the sides of their seats, elbows digging into each other, heads knocking together. ![]() The roller coaster shoves her to the side, slams Jackie into Ann. Someone is laughing and yelling at the same time. Then the roller coaster is pulling them down and someone is yelling, “You assholes!” at the top of her lungs. ![]() Right here they can unbuckle their seats and just keep rising.
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