In the early hours of the morning, around 3 a.m., a married couple was fast asleep when their phone suddenly rang. The wife answered the call, listened briefly, and responded with a calm but puzzled tone:
“How would I know? We’re 300 miles inland.”
After she hung up, her husband, now awake, asked who had called at such an unusual hour.
She replied that it appeared to be a stranger asking whether the coast was clear—an oddly misplaced question, given their location far from the sea.
The unexpected call turned what could have been an alarming interruption into a moment of dry humor, reminding us how absurd misunderstandings can sometimes surface at the most inconvenient times.