Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Matthew has a good dialing finger!

I am taking a sewing class on Monday nights for the next 6 weeks so Chris was home last night by himself with the kids. I was only gone for 3 hours but there was quite the drama in a short period of time. As soon as I walked in the door he told me that something happened that he had never before seen in his life happen that evening. He told me that the incident involved Matthew. I was assuming there was blood involved and maybe a slight head injury or something because I always assume the worse. Thankfully that was not the case. Chris was busy doing something and Matthew was playing with the cordless phone. Matthew was busy pushing the buttons on the phone and called 911. Can you believe that? What are the odds? Seriously....So, Chris heard the dispatcher say "911, what is your emergency?" He grabbed the phone, but Matthew had already hung it up. Immediatley after that our phone rang and it was the dispatcher asking what our emergency was. Chris had to explain that Matthew was playing with the phone and accidentally dialed 911. She then hastily said she would cancel the dispatch. Pretty crazy---you hear of that happening, but I've never personally known that to happen to anyone that I know. Now thanks to our son we can say that kids accidentally calling 911 really does happen. I can't wait to tell him that story when he gets older...

3 comments:

Ange~ said...

Wait, how old is he? Did someone teach him to do that or was that just a freaky accident? Ysa knows how to dial 911- but she's 4 and also understands what an emergency is, so hopefully we won't have anything like that happen! I heard about a four year old that called and said their parent was sick, and the dispatcher told him to hang up and not play on the phone- she thought it was a joke- and the mom ended up dying because of it. So I'm sure they take all calls very seriously.

Nikki Hoover said...

ellie has done this at my parents house! I don't remember how old she was...but it was an accident. She was playing with the phone and I heard someone answer so I quickly grabbed it and hung up. As I was hanging up I realized what she had dialed...sure enough they quickly called back to make sure everything was okay. I kinda wondered why they believed me that nothing was wrong...I could have been trying to trick them into not coming...

The Barkdull Family.... said...

He's almost 17 months old. We like to think that he is just very advanced for his age and just figured it out on his own---ha! :)