Going Vintage
“A button.2. A tie quilt for a fourth-grade project. I quit midway and my mom finished it for me.3. That piece of half-finished fabric in sewing class.4. Um, wow. That’s it.I wake up Sunday morning to a weird burring sound. It takes a few minutes before I realize it’s my new/old rotary phone. I glance at my new (old) alarm clock. It’s 9:12. “Hello?”“May I please speak to Mallory?”“Oliver?” I sit up in bed. “What’s with the formal greeting?”“You don’t have a cell—I didn’t know who would answer. I had to use proper phone etiquette.”I cradle the phone on my shoulder. “Oh. I didn’t know there was proper phone etiquette.”“Of course. We learned it in Scouts.”“Scouts? Like Boy Scouts?” I giggle. Genuine giggle.“Don’t laugh. I just earned my Eagle Scout. That also looks good on college résumés.”“Sorry, but practicing phone calls doesn’t sound like scouting. Aren’t you supposed to make a bear trap out of a lunchbox?”“Ah, yes. The bear-in-the-lunch-box merit badge.
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