July 16, 2006 – Allyn Gibson

On Root Beer Floats

A root beer float made with mint chocolate chip ice cream tastes medicinal. Just so everyone's clear.

The phone rang at work today. I answered it. The voice on the other end was high-pitched, a boy whose voice hasn’t yet broken. “I have Halo,” he said, “and I don’t like it.” “What’s wrong? Why don’t you like it?” Innocuous questions, to be sure, but they’re asked to narrow down the reasons forContinue reading “On Prank Phone Calls”