Bong Makes a Call to the Phone Company
Our adopted daughter was away at school at the University of California, Berkeley, better known just as CAL. She needed to make a quick trip home and the easiest thing seemed to be to coordinate arrangements with a telephone phone call. It seemed straight forward enough.
Bong could just coordinate with the phone company.
Question: To what city and phone number are you calling?
Answer: Boulder, Colorado, 303-395-2700
Question: What person in Boulder are you calling?
Answer: My dad, Pete MacDoran or my mom, Judy MacDoran.
Question: Who shall I say is making this calling:
Answer: Tell them that it’s Bong calling.
Phone Company Operator:
Reaction: Laughter. Wow, it sounds like your folks were real Tokers at CAL.
Response from Bong to telephone operator:
I’m from Viet Nam and my name means “FLOWER” and I was adopted by Americans… SO JUST PUT THE DAMN CALL THROUGH.
Pete MacDoran is a Washington resident and author of The Old Men Will Die First: A True Story of Cold War Espionage: MacDoran, Peter F.: 9781530749041: Amazon.com: Books.
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