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Bathroom humor lifts meeting

This morning I was on a conference call with my husband, Wendell, and co-workers at his company's meeting room, listening to our new health-plan representative. I was the first to come on via phone and they didn't seem to hear me, so I figured I could only listen in.

Ten minutes or so later, I rushed to the bathroom and told my toddler, Jason, not to play in the toilet. Then I heard Wendell's voice.

"Hey, Linda, we can hear you. We can hear everything."

Later, he told me the speaker phone volume had been down when I dialed in, but later was turned up. They wondered where the noise was coming from. When they heard "toilet," he said, they laughed. Wendell realized it was me, so he introduced me on the phone.