It seems like a lifetime ago that all of our lives changed forever. It was one of those steamy June nights in Florida when the longest 48 hours of my life began with the far off ringing of the telephone at 3:00 A.M. The ringing brought me out of a terrifying dream of an explosion of crashing metal, torn bodies, and crimson red blood everywhere. Our car had been hit broadside and part of the side was torn off. It was impossible to tell how badly everyone was hurt, but my mother was laying sideways motionless in the car, and my reaction

s told my bruised body to move, but not a single part of my body could move and try to save her. I was trapped in the back of the car and could only lay there helplessly, listening to the screaming sirens roaring closer. My senses could hear a terrible screeching noise that would not cease, until it finally woke me up in the dark, fearful and unsure of my surroundings. Only then realizing that there was no crashing metal, and the screeching noise was coming from the telephone on my dresser, I grudgingly dragged myself out of bed toward the phone. The nightmare was so real, so frightening, and that blasted phone would not stop ringing. My arm clumsily grabbed the receiver, and my voice sleepily said hello. The voice at the other end of the phone woke me up with a start and an apprehensive feeling of impending doom. It was my great-grandmother telling me to wake up my mother and bring her to the phone quickly. There was an urgency in her voice that made me very fearful.

Telephones are just supposed to be harmless pieces of equipment that allow people to communicate with each other. Information that is relayed through telephones is good for the most part, however, it can sometimes be painful, tragic, sad, and disturbing. This event taught me an important lesson in life about taking things for granted, even the simplest of modern conveniences. So, are telephones harmless? Not my telephone; not ever

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