The Midnight Text Message
John and Mary had been happily married for over fifty years.
One evening, John walked to the neighborhood store to buy a carton of milk. An hour passed, and he still hadn’t come home. Mary began to worry.
Suddenly, her phone buzzed with a text from an unknown number.a
“Mary, this is the nurse at City Hospital. John slipped on the ice and may have fr@ctured his h*p. Please come as soon as you can.”
Terrified, Mary grabbed her coat, jumped into the car, and rushed to the hospital.
She burst into the emergency room…
…only to find John sitting comfortably in bed, happily eating a bag of potato chips while watching television.
Not a bruise. Not a bandage. Not even a limp.
Mary held up her phone, furious.
“John! What on earth is this? The message says you may have fractured your hip!”
John looked at the phone, then back at Mary with a puzzled expression.
“Fractured my hip? I never said that!”
He shrugged.
“I forgot my reading glasses at home, so I asked the young nurse to text you and ask if you could bring them.”
Mary frowned.
“Then why did she send this?”
John grinned.
“Because I told her if she only mentioned my reading glasses… you’d probably come tomorrow.”
The nurse walked past, smiled, and said,
“I just wanted to make sure he got his glasses before midnight.”
