Bob, at 10:09 on Fri, May 27 1994, you wrote to Paul Edwards ...

 PE> How can the few minutes that you're online each day be the time
 PE> when she decides to make a call? Give her some email to read
 PE> for crying out loud.

 BL> I think she does it on purpose, but 87-year-old mothers are 
 BL> worse than kids - you can't hit them or you break bones. It's 
 BL> like you say, I'm on for 1 minute in 24 hours, and the odds are 
 BL> 1000:1 in my favour. Maybe if I just break her arm, she'll stop.

Have you considered sacrificing her to Ba'al ??  Without meaning to give
offence, my experience with elderly ladies is akin to that with my old
letterbox, which didn't receive any mail for so long that it healed up.  I
mean, just how fussy IS this Ba'al ??

Regards, Bill

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