gwax's rumblings

Last night, I received a ran­dom tele­phone call from a num­ber that I did not rec­og­nize and, as is my style, I answered it. My, “Hello” was met with an, “Is this George Waksman?” to which I responded in the affir­ma­tive, a response that met with much rev­elry from the other end of the line. The call even­tu­ally turned out to be from some guy who come across my research into Tootsie Roll Pops and taken advan­tage of the fact that I keep my cell phone num­ber on my home­page. This man was call­ing because he wanted to know both if I was seri­ous and if I had really eaten all those Tootsie Roll Pops. Not being a lying sort of per­son, I of course informed the gen­tle­man that I was only kind of seri­ous but that I had in fact eaten all of those Tootsie Roll Pops. The man on the tele­phone seemed over­joyed by the infor­ma­tion that I had just pro­vided him, thanked me and took his leave of the tele­phone conversation.