Phone Home

If the need to phone home from a foreign land ever arises then pay attention. This could happen to you. Armed with the trusty International Calling Card we headed down to the nearest public phone to make the call. For those of you lucky enough to not have to deal with those things, calling cards can be tricky and require a lot of barcode scratching, language selecting and pin code entering. Even after all that, we were disappointed to learn that the card could not be used. Trying again yielded the same result. We were stuck. Daylight was burning out on the east coast of Oz – we needed to make that call! Desperate, and out of sane ideas, I tried something crazy. I selected The French Language Prompts. Listening intently, I punched in the pin. Then the country code. The area code. Finally, the phone number… … … a dial tone. It worked! And on the first go too. France 1 – 0 England