Crystal honks away with great gusto, recoiling like a little Howitzer going off. We live in a Penthouse Apartment, so to open the downstairs front door we have to pick up a handset, identify the caller and press the release button.
As soon as I reach for the receiver she stops immediately! Amazing self control really, or it that she just wants to hear who's there?
She's extremely nosy by the way. As a child I remember a neighbour, who lived opposite called Mrs Coltart. She had one of those kiddies cardboard sliding periscopes that were common 50 plus years back and used to watch us and others from behind her sofa!
I used to 'blind' her with a mirror dazzling the offending snooper. My father wanted to depth-charge her!
Crystal would do the same if she could I'm sure... |