What's Your Emergency?

October is fire prevention month. The kids have been learning about safety and what to do in an emergency. That's a good thing.

While eating dinner tonight, Sammy put her new skills to work, by picking up the phone and dialing "nine-one-one" as she ate. Bob grabbed the phone out of her hand, half hoping that she didn't actually dial, and hit the "end" button.

About 50 seconds later......You guessed it....the phone rang. "Police Department, did someone dial 911?"

Apology made and accepted, we reminded Sam only to call for help when there's an emergency. It's nice to know, however, that she learned something useful at school and that the police will call back a hang-up before sending the squad cars to the house.